Purchase: CUNY FORUM Volume 7:1
CUNY FORUM: Asian American / Asian Studies, published by The City University of New York’s Asian America / Asian Research Institute (AAARI), is a cutting-edge New York-based print and on-line commons for scholars, writers, artists, and activists to create new dialogue and to promote educational change around Asian and American topics of today. Each issue of CUNY FORUM can be utilized for classroom text usage; by researchers and students; and community, cultural and policy groups.
The latest Fall/Winter 2019-2020 special issue, edited by Russell C. Leong, together with guest editors Stephen Lee and Elizabeth Hanna Rubio (University of California, Irvine), centers on the experiences of Asian Pacific Islanders (APIs) and in doing so, contributes to a small, but growing body of literature within Asian American and U.S. immigration studies that explores what it means to be Asian American and living under the threat of immigration-related consequences such as deportation. The contributions in this volume of CUNY FORUM touch upon a variety of themes: Politics, Identity, and Social Movements.
Politics
To help situate APIs within range of broader political opportunities, Sono Shah and Janelle Wong canvas the range of attitudes exhibited by APIs towards immigration reform in “Asian American Attitudes Toward Undocumented Immigrants and Immigration Policies.” Commentary from participants, Wayne Ho, Amy Hsin, Annie Wang, and Karen Kithan Yau in Hunter College’s Mapping Asian American New York (MAANY) panel discussion on “Undocumented Asian America” highlight the human costs of this indifference looming on the horizon.
Identity
Daniel C. Tsang explores the important work that academics can do as expert witnesses in asylum proceedings. In “Identities on Trial in the United States: An Interview with ChorSwang Ngin,” Tsang does a deep dive with anthropologist ChorSwang Ngin into how culturally relevant and competent knowledge can make an intervention within the asylum-seeking process—a legal setting with few procedural protections and serious consequences.
Social Movements
Both Nadia Young-Na Kim and Sujani K. Reddy’s pieces speak to the intersections of social movements and identity. Rounding out this circle of ideas and provocative texts, veteran Los Angeles filmmaker Alan Kondo provides commentary on his documentary short film on the protests that took place in Summer 2019 by Native peoples, Japanese and Asian Americans, African Americans, Latinx, and Whites at Fort Sill in Oklahoma.
Asian Pacific American Timeline 1758-2020
This issue also presents the latest edition of our popular timeline, which features three centuries of the history of Asians in North America, with a focus on the East Coast.
Purchase Information
CUNY FORUM Volume 7:1 (ISSN 2329-1125, 104 pages, $15) is available for purchase online at a limited time only special sale prices of $8 (includes $3 S&H). Bulk discounts are also available for schools and libraries. For review copies, please contact Antony Wong.
Online Preview: Vol 7:1
Editor-In-Chief: Russell C. Leong
Guest Editors: Stephen Lee & Elizabeth Hanna Rubio
Publisher: Joyce O. Moy
Assistant Publisher: Antony Wong
Proofreader: J. Mayor
Journal Design: William Tam & Antony Wong
Information Technology: Zhu-Hui Wu
Research Assistant: Claire Chun
Editorial Board:
Moustafa Bayoumi (Brooklyn College/CUNY), Luis H. Francia (Hunter College/CUNY & NYU), Kenneth J. Guest (Baruch College/CUNY), Evelyn Hu-Dehart (Brown University), Peter Kiang (UMASS-Boston), Amitava Kumar (Vassar College), Kyoo Lee (John Jay College of Criminal Justice/CUNY), Betty Lee Sung (Prof. Emerita, City College of NY/CUNY), Vivian Louie (Hunter College/CUNY), Phil T. Nash (University of Maryland-CollegePark), John Kuo Wei Tchen (Rutgers University) & David K. Yoo (UCLA)
