Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Date: Friday, September 23, 2011 Time: 6PM to 8PM Place: 25 West 43rd Street, 18th Floor between 5th & 6th Avenues, Manhattan AAARI hosted a reception for the Honorable Foreign Minister of Bangladesh, Dr. Dipu Moni, who spoke about US-Bangladesh trade policy. The event was co-hosted by Aziz Amad, Chair of US Bangladesh Partners, a CUNY … Read more
Between the early 1900s and the late 1950s, the attitudes of white Californians toward their Asian American neighbors evolved from outright hostility to relative acceptance. Charlotte Brooks examines this transformation through the lens of California’s urban housing markets, arguing that the perceived foreignness of Asian Americans, which initially stranded them in segregated areas, eventually facilitated … Read more
An efficient way to teach a foreign language, especially to adults, is to compare it to their native language. A study of the linguistic differences between them will help locate the difficulties in the learning process, thus increasing the predictability and purposefulness in teaching. This contrastive analysis is also the basis for translation studies and … Read more