Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Monday marks 50 years since the U.S. ended its nine-year bombing of Laos. Traditional textiles with missiles, grenades and attack planes offer a haunting glimpse of the attacks.
The president and CEO of Scholastic Books is acknowledging that the company was “wrong and not in keeping with Scholastic’s values” when it asked an author to remove references to racism in her story about her grandparents at the Minidoka Incarceration Camp.
In the process, [Ava Chin] uncovered a mysterious family history, taking in five generations of her own Chinese-American ancestors over the course of over 150 years as they tried to lay roots in the United States.
A new proposal aims to change that, merging the two questions into one and adding a new category for people of Middle Eastern and North African descent. That would alter how the government – and by extension, the research community studying Americans’ demographics, opinions, voting habits and behaviors – measures and reports on the race … Read more
Actionists are Master’s students with a serious art practice, usually from MFA programs, who are committed to developing as socially-engaged art practitioners. This selected group will be an integral part of the wider SPCUNY 2023-24 cohort, which includes CUNY faculty, Ph.D. students, and practitioners. Actionists will receive $2,000 Action Art Stipends towards the fulfillment of … Read more
The CUNY Office of Transformation recently announced three Medgar Evers College (MEC) faculty members as Career Success Fellows—Professor Jade Robertson, Dr. Rosa Zavala-Gutierrez, and Dr. Shiraz Mujtaba.