queensborough community college – Asian American / Asian Research Institute

View from Gold Mountain: Commemorating Asian American Civil Rights Through Monuments

March 3, 2023February 1, 2023 By Cheryll Leo-Gwin and Stewart Wong

Located outside of the Bernalillo County Courthouse in Albuquerque, New Mexico stands View from Gold Mountain, a monument commemorating Territory of N.M. vs. Yee Hun, the 1883 lawsuit that brought about a change in the law allowing Chinese people, and then later non-Christians, to testify in court. Artists Cheryll Leo-Gwin and Stewart Wong will discuss the making of this monument and its significance as a landmark court case enshrining civil rights for Asian Americans.

2022 Dr. K. York & M. Noelle Chynn CUNY Ethics and Morality Essay Contest

January 24, 2023August 10, 2022 By AAARI

The CUNY Ethics and Morality Essay Contest is funded by an endowment gift of $100,000 to the City University of New York by Dr. K. York Chynn and his wife Noelle Chynn. This annual award is intended to promote and stimulate thinking by college students at CUNY about the topic of ethics, morality, and virtuous behavior in their lives.

Oppression and Resistance in America’s World War II Concentration Camps

November 2, 2022February 24, 2021 By Gary Y. Okihiro

Many historians and Japanese Americans cite the loss of U.S. citizenship rights as the biggest injustice of the camps, and many believe cooperation and not resistance was the norm. Join Dr. Gary Okihiro as he outlines the nature of the oppression in that historical experience, and the resistance posed to those oppressive acts.