Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
AAIFF47 is pleased to present the annual live reading of the winning script of the Asian American International Screenplay Competition. This year’s winner is MISSUS, written by Marissa Carpio and produced by Angelo Santos. Please join us for the World Premiere of this screenplay reading. Afterwards, enjoy a casual happy hour at Snafu (127 E … Read more
Observations of contemporary life that make monkeys of us: this existential disbelief thrums through speculative stories and essays in Xu Xi’s latest collection, Monkey in Residence & Other Speculations.
In Refusing Death, Nadia Y. Kim tells the stories of Asian and undocumented Latin@ immigrant women, finding that they are influential because of their ability to remap politics, community, and citizenship in the face of the country’s nativist racism and system of class injustice, defined not just by disproportionate environmental pollution but also by neglected schools, surveillance and deportation, and political marginalization.
This presentation explores the meanings of nationalism in a post-globalization, postcolonial context. It provides an in-depth understanding of the relationship between marginalized groups, media and politics by a focused study of the Telangana movement in India.
In recent decades under runaway neoliberalism, “foreignized” and unauthorized immigrants have increasingly made political inroads by way of grassroots community activism and by sidestepping the need for formal political channels and, at times, even dismissing them. By way of nearly four years of ethnographic observation, 49 in-depth interviews, and extensive document analysis, Prof. Nadia Kim … Read more
Date: Wednesday, November 8, 2017 Time: 5pm to 7pm Place: City College of New York 160 Convent Avenue, Manhattan – NAC Ballroom Free – Open to the Public In this talk, based on her new book The Limits of Whiteness (2017, Stanford University Press), sociologist Neda Maghbouleh shares the under-theorized and sometimes heartbreaking story of … Read more