Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
It’s all coming full circle for Daphne Palasi Andreades (’15). The up-and-coming author will serve as this semester’s Sidney Harman Writing Fellow, a part of the Harman Writer-in-Residence Program, which Ms. Andreades participated in as a Baruch student only a few years ago.
South Asian Americans living in the New York area and across the country walk the fine line between assimilation and maintaining ancestral cultural identity. It’s redefining the American dream by removing limitations on what it can mean.
Tshab Her grew up feeling like she lived a double life. Like many Asian Americans, the 29-year-old Hmong American artist was always switching between two names: an Asian name and her “American” name.
The THR columnist notes that while progress in the portrayal of Asians is real, it has been maddeningly slow: “Hollywood likes to sit back and congratulate itself. But prejudice doesn’t relax.”
Many activists The Chronicle spoke to talked about feeling invisible to their universities. It seemed that some administrators didn’t think Asian American students needed additional support because of the numbers at which they enter and graduate from colleges as a whole. The model minority myth, the false perception that all Asian Americans are successful in … Read more
Hunter College/CUNY Computer Science PhD student Yiming Tang, mentored by Raffi Khatchadourian, has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering (CSSE) of Concordia University in Canada.