community

Streetwise for Book Smarts: Community Organizing, and Education Reform

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While these education organizing groups had similar goals and worked in the same political context, they frequently employed divergent political strategies in their campaigns. My talk will draw upon 18 months of ethnographic research I conducted with four education organizing groups in the South Bronx. It will focus on the ways in which the groups’ organizational toolkits made a difference, and how grassroots organizations can work more effectively towards substantive social change.

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Ethnic Banks and Community Development in New York City’s Immigrant Neighborhoods

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Dr. Tarry Hum’s research examines the increasing presence of ethnic banks in New York City’s immigrant neighborhoods. In particular, Dr. Hum focus on the growing number of Chinese-owned ethnic banks in working-class Sunset Park, Brooklyn, their lending practices and community investment activities. Based on an analysis of 1998-2005 HMDA data, interviews with bank CEOs and … Read more

The Making of Asian American Community Democracy: Rebuilding Chinatown in Post 9-11

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In witnessing the collapse of the World Trade Center, Psychotherapist Edward Ma was determined to do some healing for himself and the Chinatown community since September 11, 2001. In this presentation, Mr. Ma will discuss how he has engaged himself as a volunteer in healing himself by/and promoting participation in community democracy (voter registration for … Read more

Asian Community Block

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The “Asian Community Block” provides social agencies and cultural organizations with an opportunity to reach out and promote their activities to the more than one million and growing Asian population currently residing within the five boroughs of New York City, the majority of whom are unaware of the multitude of programs made available for them.

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Community / Academia Hi-Tech Bridge Workshop

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The Institute’s Hi-Tech Bridge Workshop is aimed at training student clubs and agency representatives with the basic skills of web design, digital photography, video presentation, and webcasting within two training sessions. The workshop will also provide free access and webhosting at a website established by AAARI specifically designed to showcase activities of, and audio/visual programs produced by student clubs and local agencies to the college communities.

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Chinese American Community and the 9/11 Tragedy

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The main source of information for this talk is the speaker’s recently published anthology on this subject. The anthology consists of records of oral interviews as well a large number of published reports and analysis. The focus of the talk will be on Chinese Americans’ involvement and contributions during and after the tragedy. Although in … Read more