Asia in Caribbean Literature and Art
Prof. Araceli Tinajero explores dynamic Transpacific cultural exchanges while illuminating the historical and creative connections between Asia and the Caribbean.
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The Asian Caribbean in the Caribbean Diaspora: Essays on Migration, Identity, and Literary and Cultural Representations
Celebrate the publication of Aleah N. Ranjitsingh’s edited volume The Asian Caribbean in the Caribbean Diaspora: Essays on Migration, Identity, and Literary and Cultural Representations. The volume expands notions of the Caribbean diaspora to account for the Asian as part of the Caribbean and Caribbean diaspora.
Chinese-Caribbean Narratives: Migration, Identity and Belonging at Home and Diaspora
Prof. Aleah Ranjitingh will present her research on Chinese-Caribbean immigrants in the United States, and the ways in which they understand self in terms of race and ethnicity.
But You’re Not Black (Documentary Screening/Discussion)
Join AAARI, and the Committee on Institutional Equity and Diversity (CIED) at the CUNY School of Professional Studies, for a screening and discussion of the documentary, But You’re Not Black (2020), directed by Danilelle Ayow.
In the Wake of Empires: Critical Reflections on 1898 and Its Afterlives
This symposium invites scholars of Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Guam, and Cuba to critically reflect upon several historical events and discuss the impacts and legacies that both Spanish and US empires have left and continue to leave in their wake.
Maneuvering Mixedness: Interpreting Dougla in the Caribbean Diaspora
The Dougla experience in Caribbean spaces and the diaspora provides an epistemology of mixedness, particularly as situated within an Indian/ African binary. Prof. Aleah N. Ranjitsingh centers maneuvering as a descriptive and explanatory tool that summarizes how Douglas contemplate their experience of mixedness outside of Caribbean homeland spaces—maneuvering defaults (Blackness), maneuvering ambiguity, and maneuvering privilege.