Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
As a San Francisco public librarian working in the Chinatown branch during the early 1970s, Judy Yung discovered a major hole in the collection, and in scholarship in general. There were no scholars on the experience of Chinese-American women, in ordinary life.
The U.S. Supreme Court dodged a ruling on Friday on whether President Trump can exclude undocumented immigrants from a key census count.
The research shows the importance of disaggregating data for Asian American patients — and the need to do more, advocates say.
New research has found that nine out of 10 Vietnamese Americans with diabetes are not obese. Even when researchers lowered the body mass index (BMI) cut-off point for defining obesity, the researchers found that over three-quarters of diabetic Vietnamese Americans were non-obese. In comparison, only 50% of diabetic non-Hispanic whites were not obese.
New York City’s leading Chinese elected officials, including U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Bayside, Flushing, Forest Hills, Fresh Meadows, Glendale, Kew Gardens, Maspeth, Middle Village, Rego Park) and City Councilman Peter Koo (D-Downtown Flushing, Murray Hill, Queensboro Hill), met with the city’s most prominent Chinese doctors and community leaders Wednesday to discuss the State of Chinese Health 2021 report published … Read more
An eviction crisis is intensifying long-standing pressures on the historic neighborhoods — from displacement to urban renewal — and it could lead to their collapse.