Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
EXACTLY 50 YEARS AGO, as the first English edition of Brazilian educator Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed was being published in the United States, his friend and fellow educator-activist Richard Shaull noted that Freire’s analysis applied to the U.S. as well as Brazil: “Our advanced technological society is rapidly making objects of us and … Read more
Taking into account considerations of immigration, race, gender, and diaspora, AAARI’s 2019 annual conference asks: What does the meteoric rise of Trumpian racist white nationalism say about the nature of systemic racism in our country today? Why is it now primarily and explicitly rooted in anti-Mexican and anti-Muslim nativist racism, and where do Asian American Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) — their diverse ethnic groups — fit (or not fit) in these citizenship orders? How has the higher education research community and the activist community collaborated and how can they continue to strategically collaborate together?
Longtime civil rights icon Grace Lee Boggs died Monday morning at her home in Detroit. Source: Activist, Civil Rights Icon Grace Lee Boggs Dies at 100 – NBC News
Boggs, famous for her role in helping shape the labor, civil rights and environmental movements in Detroit, has established a legacy of passionate and philosophical protest. Source: Grace Lee Boggs, Activist And American Revolutionary, Turns 100 : Code Switch : NPR
Hunter College, CUNY Asian American Studies Program Screening & Discussion with Transgender Activist Pauline Park Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 Time: 2PM to 4PM Place: Hunter College, CUNY 695 Park Avenue, Manhattan Hunter West Building – Room 215 Free Admission “Envisioning Justice: The Journey of a Transgendered Woman” tells the story of Pauline Park, … Read more