Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
A groundbreaking analysis by the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) reveals significant challenges for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) reporters, anchors, meteorologists, and hosts on-air.
This presentation, based on an article by Prof. Glenn Magapantay, studies local LGBTQ AAPI organizations over the past twenty years. It reveals the constituent elements that have allowed them to survive and thrive. While they continue to face internal challenges in building their organizations, the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA), a federation of LGBTQ AAPI organizations, has helped them expand their capacity and longevity. A sustainable model of infrastructure that builds local LGBTQ AAPI community is needed. That sustainable model is where organizations balance the social and, political, as well as peer-support and educational programming. Prof. Magpantay dubs this practical theory a “TIGER Analysis” or “Typography of Intersectional Gender and Sexual Empowerment and Resistance.”
Taking into account considerations of immigration, race, gender, and diaspora, AAARI’s 2019 annual conference asks: What does the meteoric rise of Trumpian racist white nationalism say about the nature of systemic racism in our country today? Why is it now primarily and explicitly rooted in anti-Mexican and anti-Muslim nativist racism, and where do Asian American Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) — their diverse ethnic groups — fit (or not fit) in these citizenship orders? How has the higher education research community and the activist community collaborated and how can they continue to strategically collaborate together?
Dr. Ya-chen Chen will discuss her new book, New Modern Chinese Women and Gender Politics: The Centennial of the End of the Qing Dynasty. The book takes a multi-disciplinary approach, drawing on film, history, literature, and personal experience. The past century witnessed dramatic changes in the lives of modern Chinese women and gender politics. Whilst … Read more
The study of Asian-American women’s experience is in a relatively nascent stage despite both an established base of feminist thought centered on Asian-American women and current efforts by young Asian-American women to achieve standing as individuals and as members of a unique gender and racially-based minority in the U.S. This lecture will discuss how … Read more
This presentation is set against the backdrop of neo-liberal policies of economic reform instituted in India in 1991. I examine the decade of the 1990s as a period of dramatic change from prior decades of Independent India. I suggest that with the opening of the Indian economy in conjunction with the privatization of television the … Read more