An American Meo: A Tale of Remembering and Forgetting
Author Anisa Rahim will discuss her book, An American Meo, a hybrid work of nonfiction, fiction, and myth that explores identity, heritage, and the weight of generational memory.
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More Than One Child (Screening & Discussion)
Join us for a powerful evening of film and conversation on the human consequences of China’s One-Child Policy with filmmaker Vinit Parmar.
Sons of Chinatown: A Memoir Rooted in China and America
Born 1941 in Oakland, California’s Chinatown, William Gee Wong is the only son of his father, known as Pop. Born in Guangdong Province, China, Pop emigrated to Oakland as a teenager during the Chinese Exclusion era in 1912 and entered the U.S. legally as the “son of a native,” despite having partially false papers. Sons of Chinatown is Wong’s evocative dual memoir of his and his father’s parallel experiences in America.
Collisions of the Diasporic: Cambodian Cultural Production in the United States
The entry of Cambodians in the United States was not simply a migration, but a crash-landing as refugees after an incredible loss of population, humanity, culture & arts, religion, and thinkers. How, then, do the diasporic inheritors of this history respond via cultural production? And how does artist-scholar Sokunthary Svay’s own work including her newly published memoir, Put It On Record, address this question?
AAARI Reads Book Club Discussion – Antiman: a Hybrid Memoir
Please join our AAARI Reads Book Club discussion of Rajiv Mohabir’s Antiman: a Hybrid Memoir. Bring a friend, your students, a colleague, a family member—all are welcome!
AAARI Reads (Spring 2023) – Rajiv Mohabir
AAARI Reads fosters a communal reading experience for CUNY students, staff, and faculty of work by Asian American and Pacific Islander writers. AAARI Reads focuses on texts that reflect the complex and heterogeneous identities and experiences of AAPI New Yorkers. Our inaugural selection is Rajiv Mohabir’s Antiman: a Hybrid Memoir, an experimental genre-blending exploration of … Read more