CUNY FORUM Volume 11:1

December 30, 2024December 30, 2024 By AAARI

CUNY FORUM, Volume 11:1 is inspired by the journal’s front cover image by Lisa Chin: the wry and iconic “everyday hero” that honors the practitioners of daily life within Asian American communities. These practitioners include essential and unrecognized workers, educators, artists, and everyday people coping with the aftermath of 9/11, Black Lives Matter, Covid-19, and anti-Asian xenophobia. Simply put, and as others have also noted, “we must become the heroes of our own stories.”

Together, the four distinct sections of Volume 11:1 create a forum, bringing the voices of artists, cultural workers, art curators, educators and writers from various New York and East Coast-based communities to deepen our understanding of the roots of contemporary Asian America; to challenge boundaries of ethnicity, caste, and gender; and to transform our communities.

I – Basement Workshop
II – What’s in a Name?
III – Localizing New York Histories
IV – To Begin, to Become

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CUNY FORUM Volume 11:1 (ISSN 2329-1125, 156 pages, $15). Bulk discounts are also available for schools and libraries.

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Table of Contents

Where Art, Education, and Transculturalism Meet
Russell C. Leong

I. Basement Workshop

Basement Workshop
Eleanor Yung

Danny Yung: From New York to Hong Kong, From Basement Workshop to Zuni Icosahedron
Eleanor Yung

Asian American Arts Centre: Collections and Resources
Robert Lee

Asian American Arts Centre: Writing on Ten Artists
Robert Lee

Resource Center to History Project: Looking Back at Basement
Rocky Chin

From the Basement to Park Row
Jeanie Chin

Basement Workshop and New York Chinese Historical Society
Yee Ling Poon

Corky Lee’s Asian America: Fifty Years of Photographic Justice
Mary Uyematsu Kao

II. What’s in a Name?

Author Bio

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