Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Join AAARI for a panel discussion for the launch of “One Century after Thind,” a special issue of Ethnic Studies Review, edited by Dr. Soniya Munshi and Dr. Linta Varghese, examining legacies past and present of the U.S. Supreme Court case, United States v Bhagat Singh Thind (1923).
Economic and structural inequality, racial scapegoating, and anti-Asian xenophobia all played a role in violence against Asian Americans, then, and continue unabated to today in 2021. Against the backdrop of the continuing global Covid-19 crisis and anti-Asian violence and hate in the United States, we present to you the reader some signals of hope and reclamation on the local and national level: Asian Americans recognizing and reclaiming their place in the larger civil society despite immense institutional and ideological barriers.
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
Indo-Caribbean community leaders discuss gender justice.
Join Kew & Willow Books for a celebration of Bushra Rehman novel’s Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion, an unforgettable story about female friendship and queer desire in a Pakistani-American community in Corona, Queens. This celebration will feature some of Queens most celebrated and beloved writers including Bushra Rehman, Christine Kandic Torres, Jai Dulani, Joseph O. Legaspi, Nadia Q. Ahmad, Patricia Park, Soniya Munshi!
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?