Asian American Studies across CUNY: Reflections, Connections, Futures
AAARI is hosting a day-long symposium to build connection and community, and collectively vision the future possibilities and directions for Asian American studies at CUNY.
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AANAPISIs at CUNY
Join us for a virtual conversation to learn more about the current AANAPISI projects at CUNY: QCAP (Queens College AANAPISI Project) and HCAP (Hunter College AANAPISI Project), which includes the ABI (AANAPISI Bridge Initiative), in collaboration with BMCC.
The Children of the People: Writings by and about CUNY students on race and social justice
Co-editor Rose Kim will discuss the origins of the book and read from her chapter, “Twenty Years at CUNY: A Political Coming-of-Age.” Prof. Kim will be joined by contributor Linda Luu who will read from their chapter, “Resistance Everywhere We Went: The Fight for Asian American Studies at CUNY.”
2023 AAARI Conference Call for Proposals – Asian American Studies across CUNY: Reflections, Connections, Futures
We invite students, scholars, and/or practitioners, within and outside of CUNY, to share their innovative research and creative works, pedagogical projects, programmatic efforts, models for organizing and activism, and other activities at CUNY that address critical issues in Asian American studies and/or communities.
Where CHamoru Identity Continues: The Decolonial Poetics of the CHamoru Diaspora in California
Prof. Francisco Delgado’s current project examines how Chamorro poets reimagine the landscape of California as an extension of their home island. In particular, through a careful reading of works by Chamorro poets like Clarissa Mendiola and Lehua Taitano, both of whom are currently based out of California, he argues that the nature of Chamorro identity and community is as fluid and vast as the Pacific Ocean itself.
Our Laundry, Our Town: My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond
Our Laundry, Our Town (Empire State Editions, 2022) is a memoir that decodes and processes the fractured urban oracle bones of Alvin Eng’s growing up in Flushing, Queens, a neighborhood of that singular universe that was New York City in the 1970s. As a theatre practitioner and professor, Alvin discovered the under-chronicled Chinese influence on Thornton Wilder’s seminal Americana drama, Our Town.