“We’re the New Citizenship”: LA’s Asian and Latin@ Immigrant Activists on Politics as Embodied and Emotional

In recent decades under runaway neoliberalism, “foreignized” and unauthorized immigrants have increasingly made political inroads by way of grassroots community activism and by sidestepping the need for formal political channels and, at times, even dismissing them. By way of nearly four years of ethnographic observation, 49 in-depth interviews, and extensive document analysis, Prof. Nadia Kim … Read more

2018 CUNY Asian American Film Festival

The CUNY AAFF helps to promote the artistic visual talents and stimulate communication among CUNY students who are separated by the different campuses, and serve as a central location to display their creative works.

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Asian Americans and Immigrant Rights: Keep on DREAMing?

This talk explores the close and constitutive relationship between Asian immigration and struggles for migrant justice. How can we understand the continuing impacts of the seminal role that Chinese and later Asian exclusion played in creating the infrastructure of immigration in the United States? What was the relationship between the emergence of an Asian American … Read more

CUNY ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL SHOWCASE

Description Since 2004, the Asian American / Asian Research Institute’s CUNY Asian American Film Festival (AAFF), presented by the Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI), has recognized and awarded student filmmakers enrolled at the City University of New York, including City College, Brooklyn College, Hunter College, Lehman College, College of Staten Island, and Queens … Read more

2017 CUNY Asian American Film Festival

2017 Winners & Runner-ups Fiction Film Winner: Day at Textile Factory Nicky Zou (Hunter College) Runner-Up: Powder Room Kevin Oliver Arota (Brooklyn College) Documentary Film Winner: Decoding Darkmatter Crystal Waterton (Hunter College) Time: 6PM to 8PM Place: CUNY Graduate Center – Martin E. Segal Theatre 365 Fifth Avenue (Corner of 34th Street), Manhattan Since 2004, … Read more