CUNY FORUM Volume 10:1

May 24, 2023May 24, 2023 By AAARI

To mark this first decade of publication, CUNY FORUM: Asian American / Asian Studies, published by the Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI), has gathered Asian American memoirs, personal accounts, essays, and public roundtables of writers that span at least a century and more. These authors cross the borders of states and nations, East and West: from New York to Michigan; Mississippi to California; and, China, Japan, India, Korea, and the Philippines to the United States. The offerings here are both representative of the scope of the “uncommon Asian American community” and often unique in their perspectives—writing from farmlands, prisons and auto factories; the urban North to the American South; organizing immigrant taxi drivers and undocumented LGBTQ Asians; and literary interventions by Filipino, Chinese, Indian, Chinese, Taiwanese, and Pacific writers and scholars across generations and countries.

We’ve organized this commemorative edition is into four parts, prefaced by Frank H. Wu, the first Asian American president of Queens College/CUNY, and his future-oriented essay, “You and Me and the Commonalities of Asian American Studies.” With the goal of institutional integration and intellectual inclusion, President Wu taps this particular historical moment to state that: “We can and will unite ethnic studies, diaspora studies, language programs, and racial justice curriculum.”

I – Claiming Our Communities, from Detroit to Delano
II – Confronting Race, Place, & Radioactive Ecologies
III – Activism, Equality, and Asian American Studies
IV – Writing Ourselves In

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CUNY FORUM Volume 10:1 (ISSN 2329-1125, 160 pages, $15). Bulk discounts are also available for schools and libraries.

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Table of Contents

You and Me and the Commonalities of Asian American Studies

Frank H. Wu

Listening to the Uncommon Community
Russell C. Leong

In Memoriam: Betty Lee Sung (1924-2023)

I – From Detroit to Delano Revisited

Ford and My Family
Katherine In-Young Lee

Soil of Salinas (Sarinasu no tsuchi) by Okazaki Ginko
Alan K. Ota & Andrew Way Leong with translation by Stephen Kohl

II – Race, Place & Nuclear Ecologies

Asian Americans: Confronting Racial Hierarchy and Creating an Empathic Society
Ming Xia

Across the Color Divide in Untidy States
Vinay Lal

After Hiroshima: Radiation Ecologies in Trans-Pacific Indigenous Literatures
Hsinya Huang

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