Fresno becomes second U.S. city to ban caste discrimination
After a unanimous City Council vote, caste and indigeneity are now protected categories in Fresno, California.
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Why We Must Invest in AANAPISIs
A little-known federal program has helped to empower generations of underserved Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander students. This week, the Biden-Harris Administration is taking new steps to strengthen it.
White House Education Officials Visit QC for First National AANAPISI Week
On September 22, 2023, President Joseph Biden Jr. proclaimed September 25 to October 1, 2023 Asian American Native American and Pacific Islander Serving Institution (AANAPISI) Week. Colleges with at least 10% of the student body identifying as Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) qualify as an AANAPISI. Fourteen of The City University of … Read more
CALL FOR CHAPTERS – The Asian Caribbean in the Caribbean Diaspora
Editor: Aleah N. Ranjitsingh, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Africana Studies Department and Caribbean Studies Program, Brooklyn College, City University of New York (CUNY) To be submitted to Lexington Press, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, this edited collection The Asian Caribbean in the Caribbean Diaspora focuses on the historical and contemporary issues faced by Caribbean immigrants … Read more
How the “Angry Minority” Trope Gaslights People of Color
Tips for people who combat microaggressions, and their allies.
Call for Papers – Trauma and Westernization: Embodied Exclusion in Korean/Korean American Women’s Literature (NeMLA Panel)
Shirley Geok-lin Lim claimed, “My Westernization took place in my body.” This panel seeks to theorize the female Korean American body as a racialized and excluded site–a biopolitical site for trauma and haunting. More specifically, we seek to investigate representations of Korean women’s bodies in Korean/Korean American women’s writing and how these representations come to … Read more