Purchase: CUNY FORUM Volume 10:1
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
Riding Waves in the South Pacific
Syaman Rapongan 夏曼藍波安
III – Equal + Act + Rights
Contemporary Asian American Activism: Building Movements for Liberation
Diane C. Fujino, Robyn Magalit Rodriguez, Javaid Tariq & Eddy Zheng
Asian American Activism: The Convergence of LGBTQ Equality and Immigrants’ Rights
Glenn D. Magpantay
The Future of the Association for Asian American Studies
Phil Tajitsu Nash
Betty Lee Sung: Teaching Asian American Studies at CUNY
Antony Wong
IV – Writing In > Ourselves
AAARI Reads: Illuminating AAPI Stories
Soniya Munshi
The Blood Running in My Veins
Yingchao Xiao
Toasting Sake to Trungpa
Chin Woon Ping
The Small-Town Dictator
Irene Soriano
Editor-In-Chief: Russell C. Leong
Associate Editor: Antony Wong
Publisher: Soniya Munshi
Journal Design: William Tam & Antony Wong
Information Technology: Zhu-Hui Wu
Editorial Board
Moustafa Bayoumi (Brooklyn College/CUNY), Luis H. Francia (New York University), Kenneth Guest (Baruch College/CUNY), Evelyn Hu-Dehart (Brown University), Peter Kiang (UMASS-Boston), Nadia Kim (Loyola Marymount University), Amitava Kumar (Vassar College), Kyoo Lee (John Jay College of Criminal Justice/CUNY & CUNY Graduate Center), Vivian Louie (Hunter College/CUNY), Soniya Munshi (AAARI-CUNY), Kevin Nadal (John Jay College of Criminal Justice/CUNY & CUNY Graduate Center) Phil Tajitsu Nash (University of Maryland), Betty Lee Sung (Prof. Emerita, City College of NY/CUNY), John Kuo Wei Tchen (Rutgers University) & David K. Yoo (UCLA)
