LaGuardia’s Asian American Voices Journal, Issue 1

Please encourage your students to submit term papers, creative writing, essays, recipes, artworks, and photo collections to Malgorzata Marciniak (Editor-in-Chief) at mmarciniak@lagcc.cuny.edu for publication in Asian American Voices.

Editorial Committee: Anita Baksh, Tameka Battle, Tuli Chatterji, Richa Gupta, Malgorzata Marciniak, Tomonori Nagano, and Dana Trusso


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  • 0 Tribute to Dr. Ruhma Choudhury
  • 00 List of Contributors
  • 01 Surprise / বিস্ময় (Popy Chowdhury / পপি চৌধুরী)
  • 02 Staying in a Good Relationship (Popy Chowdhury)
  • 03 Eloise / এলোইজের আকাশ (Jesmin Ara / জেসমিন আরা)
  • 04 Searching (Olive Casareno)
  • 05 A Bit of Weirdness (Swekchha Luitel)
  • 06 The Red Train (Xinchen (Viola) You)
  • 07 City Life: from Asia Straight to America (Angrej Singh)
  • 08 Making the United States of America through Immigration Acts (Clarence Baguyo)
  • 09 Untold Stories: Chinese Women’s Exclusion in Teow Lim Goh’s Poetry (Jessica Ortiz)
  • 10 Silence and Watchful Eyes in Maxine Hong Kingston’s “No Name Woman” (Michaela Cassandra Bautista)
  • 11 The Lessons from the Contact Zone (Jooi Choi Albano)
  • 12 The Unheard Voices of Angel Island (Souvik Saha)
  • 13 Identity and Tradition in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake (Somi Ahmed)
  • 14 Crossing Borders (Jiafeng Li)
  • 15 ADDA (Jahidul Priyo)
  • 16 Back To School (Nazmun Ety)
  • 17 It’s Time to Pick Up Our History (Wang Wei)
  • 18 My Community (Rajan Chaudhary)
  • 19 Hear the Voice: Japanese vs. English (Megumi Fitzpatrick)
  • 20 Spiced Bake Chicken (Fnu Ugyen Norzin)
  • 21 Rui Macher (Fish) Jhol (Bengali Fish Curry) (Mohame Khan)
  • 22 Brewing Tea (Sidika Jivraj)
  • 23 Chinese Hot Pot (Xue Wei)
  • 24 Photos (Shiqui Li (Alice))
  • 25 Bagan City, Myanmar (Aye Soe Sander)
  • 26 After 12 in MongKok (Nicholas Caracciolo)
  • 27 Legion, a moment in Fortress Hills (Nicholas Caracciolo)
  • 28 Requiem of Complexion (Nicholas Caracciolo)
  • 29 Pangong Lake, Ladakh, India (Sertso Mertsi)
  • 30 Chaka Salt Lake (Ying Yang)
  • 31 Dali (Zhongming Qiu)
  • 32 Sari in Bangladesh (Farzana Viavao)
  • 33 Xiamen University in China (Quinglan Chen)
  • 34 New York City (Mike Yuda Chen)
  • 35 Photos (Stella Sitao Xing)
  • 36 Drawings (Zexin Liu)

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