Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Mapping of Asian Americans in New York (MAANY) Current Challenges to Ethnic Media in New York: With Joe Wei and Angelo Falcón Date: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 Time: 3:30PM to 5:30PM Place: Roosevelt House – Hunter College/CUNY 47-49 East 65th Street, 2nd Fl Meeting Room, Manhattan Mapping of Asian Americans in New York has invited … Read more
Tour of Chinatown, Manhattan: Exploring Its Multi-ethnic Origins and Current Development Date: April 15, 17, 18, 20 & 21, 2010 Time: 10:30AM to 12PM Place: 218 Centre Street, Manhattan (Across the Street from Museum of Chinese in America) Free Admission Age Level: 16 and over The Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) will lead … Read more
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
Ethnic boundaries between communities are age old. Geographic boundaries are established by nature. National boundaries are established on the basis of nationalities that control the land, the people and the natural resources of the land. Mother Earth has other boundaries that are important but not realized by most people except the geologists and those working … Read more
This will be a discussion about the need of support for ethnic and cultural centers within CUNY, and the ways through which this can come about. Through the participation of the Vice President for Institutional Development, and two members of the CUNY Board of Trustees, representing the Italian, Jewish, and Asian American communities, the discussion … Read more
Based on a book currently being written for Columbia University on ethnic attachment, this talk will explain the solidarity among Chinese, Indian and Korean immigrants in New York City. Sociologists often lump together ethnic attachment and ethnic solidarity into the same category. Though distinctively interrelated, both are significantly different from one another in their explanations … Read more