Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
The Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI), of The City University of New York, (CUNY) has begun a compilation of a list of outstanding Asian American alumni of CUNY whose remarkable achievements demonstrate leadership and excellence so that others may be inspired to follow in their footsteps. They serve as role models for the … Read more
The impact of the pandemic on the Asian-American community in New York City is particularly profound. Beyond the pandemic’s effect on public health, economic growth, education, medical services, food supply, and international relations, the Asian-American community has been blamed for the pandemic and the target of hate and violence. Co-executive editors Chris Kwok and Karen King will present the Asian American Bar Association of New York’s recently released report that discusses the data showing that anti-Asian hate and violence have skyrocketed in 2020, focusing on the New York City region.
PANDEMIC BRINGS US TO PANDEMONIUM, not the center of Hell—Pandemonium in Milton’s Paradise Lost—but tumult, chaos, the upending of our quotidian lives due to the infernal virus, on which we have conferred the somewhat majestic title, Novel Corona Virus-19. Normalcy is a far-away country, and even with all its attendant and even discordant notes, seems … Read more
A commemorative edition on the fifth-year anniversary of CUNY FORUM, founded in 2013 to advance thinking & action in Asian American Studies. Asian American Matters (ISBN: 978-0-692-94978-8, 256 pp., illustrated, $25) features forty New York and U.S. scholars writers, artists and activists, is the first national anthology to address post-9/11 issues around Asians, Asian Americans, South Asians, and Muslims in relation to Asian American Studies and communities.
The Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI), of The City University of New York, (CUNY) has begun a compilation of a list of outstanding Asian American alumni of CUNY whose remarkable achievements demonstrate leadership and excellence so that others may be inspired to follow in their footsteps. They serve as role models for the … Read more
How might Kingston be a port of call for the Overseas Chinese? And how might Hong Kong be an important metropolis of the Black diaspora? In this talk, Tao Leigh Goffe examines the intersections of the African and Asian diasporas in a journey from New York to Jamaica to the New Territories in Hong Kong where through the technology of photography and the internet she was reunited with Afro-Jamaican and Chinese family she had never knew existed.