Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Join Third World Newsreel and the Documentary Forum at CCNY for a screening of the documentary, Resistance at Tule Lake, on those who resisted the illegal imprisonment during World War II, and afterwards hear from the director, Japanese American Konrad Aderer.
During the McCarthy era, the loyalties of over ten thousand American citizens of Chinese descent were questioned based on their ethnicity and alleged risk to national security. CHINATOWN FILES explores the roots and legacy of the Cold War on the Chinese American community during the 1950s and 1960s, and presents the firsthand accounts by seven men and women of being hunted down, jailed and targeted for deportation in America.