Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Susan Miyo Asai examines how music functions as a performance of social, cultural, and political identification for a population historically excluded from the racial boundaries of American citizenship, provoking a broader discussion on national identity and the challenges of nation-building.
Larry Tung and Mehrunnisa Wani will screen and discuss their documentary Invisible No More (2025), highlighting how Asian Americans are no longer just an emerging force in New York City politics, but are making sweeping strides at all levels of government.
Exploring grassroots power & Asian American futures in NYC after Zohran Mamdani’s historic election.
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.