Asian/Americans, Education, and Crime: The Model Minority as a Victim or Perpetrator

In this talk Drs. Ball and Hartlep will discuss their latest volume, Asian/Americans, Education, and Crime: The Model Minority as Victim and Perpetrator. They will discuss how their book contributes to a limited amount of scholarly writing so that researchers, policymakers, and educators can gain a deeper and more nuanced understanding of the relationship between … Read more

2017 CUNY Asian Faculty & Staff: Spring Festival Reception

The reception will introduce faculty and staff to the Asian American / Asian Research Institute; our mission as a university-wide scholarly research and resource center that focuses on policies and issues that affect Asians and Asian Americans; and available professional development programs and research award opportunities.

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Emile Bocian: Photojournalist for The China Post, NYC

From the mid-1970s through the mid-1980s, a Polish Jew named Emile Bocian, extensively photographed and documented New York City’s Chinese community for The China Post, a Chinese-language daily paper. Billing itself as “The Voice of the American Chinese,” The China Post was in publication from 1972 through 1986. At its height, the paper saw a … Read more

Unfamiliar Harbors: A Jamaican Chinese Archive of Intimacies from Kingston to Kowloon

How might Kingston be a port of call for the Overseas Chinese? And how might Hong Kong be an important metropolis of the Black diaspora? In this talk, Tao Leigh Goffe examines the intersections of the African and Asian diasporas in a journey from New York to Jamaica to the New Territories in Hong Kong where through the technology of photography and the internet she was reunited with Afro-Jamaican and Chinese family she had never knew existed.

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CUNY ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL SHOWCASE

Dates & Times CUNY ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL SHOWCASE CUNY Graduate Center (The Martin Segal Theatre ) July 27, 2016 5:00 pm Pay as you wish Description Since 2004, the 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 … Read more