CUNY FORUM Volume 9:1

March 1, 2022February 1, 2022 By AAARI

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 2021-2022 issue, edited by Russell C. Leong, was originally conceived around the theme of developing anti-racist education around Asian Americans in a post-Covid-19 year, however we realized that the subject was too broad and abstract, and that we lacked a larger intellectual and institutional scaffolding akin to the 1619 Project developed for African American history and supported by The New York Times and the Pulitzer Center. Yet, as noted author and legendary activist Helen Zia points out in her dialogue with sociologist Margaret M. Chin in this issue, there are fundamental linkages between the enslavement of African Americans and the how Asians (Chinese, Filipino, South Asian) ended up in the Americas after 1619. Moreover, Zia recounts her experience as a Detroit autoworker and the 1982 killing of Vincent Chin, a Chinese American, under the conditions of anti-Asian hatred toward Japan and economic instability. Economic and structural inequality, racial scapegoating, and anti-Asian xenophobia all played a role in violence against Asian Americans, then, and continue unabated to today in 2021.

Against the backdrop of the continuing global Covid-19 crisis and anti-Asian violence and hate in the United States, we present to you the reader some signals of hope and reclamation on the local and national level: Asian Americans recognizing and reclaiming their place in the larger civil society despite immense institutional and ideological barriers.

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Table of Contents

Editor’s Note: “Saved by America?”
Russell C. Leong

CUNY Faculty Diversity and Inclusion Conference 2021
The Power of An Antiracist Academy: Reimagining Systems & Structures

Diversity Award
Félix V. Matos Rodríguez & Joyce O. Moy

Keynote: A Lens on Anti-Asian Bias & Systemic Oppression
Margaret M. Chin & Helen Zia

Combating Colorism and Anti-Blackness in Asian American Communities
Noelle Malvar & Kevin Nadal

From India to the United States: Perspectives on Race
Prema Kurien

A Willing Blindness: Race, Gender, and Class in the Atlanta Spa Killings
John J. Chin

Poems: Bleeding Heart Flower & Comfort Woman
Tanya (Hyonhye) Ko Hong

Beyond Asian American Studies 101: A Teacher’s Notes On Atlanta
David K. Song

Black Henry: Charting New Ways Forward in Filipino History
Vina Orden

“Flutter Free”: A Memoir
Guillermo Bernabe Mangaoang, Jr.

Author Bio

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