2024 CUNY Thomas Tam Scholarship

The Scholarship awards $1,000 to an individual qualified undergraduate student that is currently enrolled at any of the twenty-one colleges within CUNY, Asian or non-Asian, who has demonstrated creativity in the communication of the concerns of the Asian American community in areas such as health, education, culture, media or advocacy/activism.

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AAPI voter insights on misinformation and media trust

Ahead of November’s critical election that will decide the country’s direction for the next four years, Asian and Pacific Islander Vote (APIAVote), AAPI Data, and the Asian American Journalists Association (AAJA) presented their collaborative research into Asian American, Native Hawai’ian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) voters, in order to recognize, respect, and make visible the many … Read more

Hong Kong Media and Asia’s Cold War

Through untapped archival materials, contemporary sources, and numerous interviews with filmmakers, magazine editors, and student activists, Po-Shek Fu explores how global conflicts were localized and intertwined with myriad local historical experiences and cultural formation.

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2023 CUNY Thomas Tam Scholarship Recipient

The Scholarship awards $1,000 to an individual qualified undergraduate student that is currently enrolled at any of the twenty-one colleges within CUNY, Asian or non-Asian, who has demonstrated creativity in the communication of the concerns of the Asian American community in areas such as health, education, culture, media or advocacy/activism.

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CUNY Thomas Tam Scholarship 2022 Recipient

The Scholarship awards $1,000 to an individual qualified undergraduate student that is currently enrolled at any of the twenty-one colleges within CUNY, Asian or non-Asian, who has demonstrated creativity in the communication of the concerns of the Asian American community in areas such as health, education, culture, media or advocacy/activism.

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Tolerance and Risk: How U.S. Liberalism Racializes Muslims

Portrayals of Muslims as the beneficiaries of liberal values have contributed to the racialization of Muslims as a risky population since the September 11 attacks. These discourses, which hold up some Muslims as worthy of tolerance or sympathy, reinforce an unstable good Muslim/bad Muslim binary where any Muslim might be moved from one side to the other. In Tolerance and Risk, Mitra Rastegar explores these discourses as a component of the racialization of Muslims—where Muslims are portrayed as a highly diverse population that nevertheless is seen to contain within it a threat that requires constant vigilance.

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