Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Taking into account considerations of immigration, race, gender, and diaspora, AAARI’s 2019 annual conference asks: What does the meteoric rise of Trumpian racist white nationalism say about the nature of systemic racism in our country today? Why is it now primarily and explicitly rooted in anti-Mexican and anti-Muslim nativist racism, and where do Asian American Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) — their diverse ethnic groups — fit (or not fit) in these citizenship orders? How has the higher education research community and the activist community collaborated and how can they continue to strategically collaborate together?
CUNY FORUM Volume 6:1 (Fall 2018 to Winter 2019, ISSN: 2329-1125, 100 pages, $15.00) features three sections, each examining through essays, commentaries, and research: 1. Crossing Out/In Our Communities; 2. To Serve the People and Lose Your Sexuality?; and 3. Translating There to Here
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.
Purchase: CUNY FORUM Volume 4:1
AAARI’s fourth issue of CUNY FORUM is concerned with how Asian American Studies, as a radical education initiative begun forty-years ago, can become a “change-creator,” providing a counter narrative to what is already known or practiced. Here, East Coast scholars, activists, artists and institutions, through their work and research bring critical transcultural perspectives and uncommon meanings to both voice and practice.
Purchase: CUNY FORUM Volume 3:1
AAARI’s third issue of CUNY FORUM commemorates and examines the history of Asian American Studies on the East Coast during the tumultuous time of the Civil Rights Movement to the present. Learn from leading scholars and pioneers in the field about the future of Asian American and South Asian Studies in research, teaching, and education.
Purchase: CUNY FORUM Volume 2:1
AAARI’s second issue of CUNY FORUM features a mixture of Nobel Prize recipients together with notable Asian Pacific scholars, journalists and public artists including individuals connected with Bangladesh, South Africa, Vietnam, Cambodia, Korea, Nepal, Taiwan, Japan, and the Philippines.