Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Join Third World Newsreel and the Documentary Forum at CCNY for an online discussion of the PBS documentary, Plague at the Golden Gate, with producer/director, Li-Shin Yu, including the making of this film, its significance now, and her own path from editing to leading a film.
Introduction Asian Americans are those who live in the U.S. and personally identify themselves as having Asian or Pacific Islander ancestry. This group includes people whose origins are the Far East, Southeast Asia, the Indian Subcontinent and the Pacific Islands. It was classified into 28 Asian and 19 Pacific Islander ethnic groups for the 1990 … Read more