Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
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.
Funded by the Luce Foundation, Prof. Nerve Macaspac will discuss a collaborative four-year project to establish a Southeast Asian Studies network in the State University of New York (SUNY) and City University of New York (CUNY) systems. The SUNY/CUNY Southeast Asia Consortium (SEAC) is an interdisciplinary initiative to promote research, teaching, and related efforts around Southeast Asia and Southeast Asian Americans in New York’s public universities.
In recent years, New York City’s food delivery workers, a largely Asian and Latina/o immigrant workforce, have struggled against being characterized and policed as public safety “problems” even as these same workers became essential but unprotected during the Covid-19 pandemic. To better unpack the temporality of desire paths of delivery workers, Prof. Do Jun Lee mobilizes han, an indigenous Korean word for the inherited and collective emotions of transgenerational trauma from systematic oppressions. As such, understanding how and why food delivery workers are simultaneously “essential” and a “problem” is to re-member the intertwined and complex histories of place, migrations, mobilities, labor, and governance, which opens up possibilities for redefining the “problem.”
Join us as we celebrate AAPI histories and futures at Queens College!
Roundtable discussion on Teaching Asian American Studies at City University of New York (CUNY) for the Asian American Policy Review, a Harvard Kennedy School student publication. MODERATOR Soniya Munshi is Interim Executive Director of the Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) at CUNY, an Associate Professor in the Department of Ethnic and Race Studies … Read more
Join us for a virtual conversation to learn more about the current AANAPISI projects at CUNY: QCAP (Queens College AANAPISI Project) and HCAP (Hunter College AANAPISI Project), which includes the ABI (AANAPISI Bridge Initiative), in collaboration with BMCC.