Purchase: CUNY FORUM Volume 1:1
CUNY FORUM is the first journal in CUNY’s 166-year history focused on Asian American and Asian issues, edited by veteran editor and award-winning American Book award writer Russell C. Leong, the 2012-2013 CUNY Thomas Tam Visiting Professor at Hunter College. According to Leong, the goal of the FORUM is to bring intellectual and cultural communities together in a new commons that takes readers well beyond typecasting Asian Americans as merely another American “minority brand.”
Beyond heated discussions around Asian Tiger Moms or Jeremy Lin last year, the media has seemingly created a “new branding” of Asian Americans– based on clichés of high-achieving students and economically savvy parents. The new Asian Americans have even been termed by some as the “new Jews” of New York. There is an insatiable need to plunk Asian Americans, once again, into the model minority niche that first came into existence in the 1960s. Global immigration, the ascendance of China and India, and better Western news coverage of East Asia and South Asia has all served to conflate Asia and the Asian American success story.
But does all this hype help– or hinder– Asian Americans– and who ARE the real Asian Americans behind this ubiquitous– and oft– insidious– typecasting? More importantly, what and how do they think – as scholars, writers, practitioners, or even poets? CUNY FORUM provides some answers and features some of the best thinkers and writers associated with the City University of New York’s twenty-four institutions who challenge the status quo.
The 144 page full-color journal (Volume 1:1, Fall 2013 to Winter 2014, ISSN: 2329-1125, $15.00) features CUNY scholars drawn from faculty at Hunter, City College, Queens, Baruch, John Jay, and the Graduate Center who tackle and examine both contemporary issues and intellectual conundrums. Four sections each examine, through essays and research reports: 1. Asian American Studies; 2. Global Thinking and East-West Philosophy; 3. Community-based Research; and 4. Literature.
Book Launch Event (November 4, 2013)
Online Preview: Vol 1:1
Teacher’s Guide: Vol 1:1
Editor-In-Chief: Russell C. Leong
Publisher: Joyce O. Moy
Assistant Editor: Trevor J. Lee
Production Manager: Antony Wong
Graphic Design Production: William Tam
Journal Design: Russell C. Leong, William Tam & Antony Wong
Proofreader: J. Mayor
Information Technology: Zhu-Hui Wu
Distribution and Mailing: Shashi Khanna
Editorial Board:
Meena Alexander (Hunter College/CUNY & CUNY Graduate Center), Moustafa Bayoumi (Brooklyn College/CUNY), Luis H. Francia (Hunter College/CUNY & NYU), Jennifer Hayashida (Hunter College/CUNY), Evelyn Hu-Dehart (Brown University), Peter Kiang (UMASS-Boston), Amitava Kumar (Vassar College), Peter Kwong (Hunter College/CUNY & CUNY Graduate Center), Kyoo Lee (John Jay College of Criminal Justice/CUNY), Konrad Ng (Smithsonian Institution), Betty Lee Sung (Prof. Emerita, City College of NY/CUNY), John Kuo Wei Tchen (NYU) David K. Yoo (UCLA)
