NY-based print & online commons for scholars, practitioners, artists and activists committed to writing & conducting research on Asian Americans / Asians.
CUNY FORUM, edited by Russell C. Leong, is a New York-based print and on-line commons for scholars, writers, artists, practitioners and activists to develop research, to create dialogue, and to promote change around Asian American and Asian topics within the context of the Americas.
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CUNY FORUM article by Kevin Nadal on microaggressions referenced here https://www.rewire.org/microaggressions-interracial-relationship/
Her partner was kind and intelligent, but relationships do not exist in a vacuum.
Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA | Nadia Y. Kim
The industrial-port belt of Los Angeles is home to eleven of the top twenty oil refineries in California, the largest ports in the country, and those racist monuments we call freeways. In this uncelebrated corner of La La Land through which most of America's goods transit, pollution is literally kil...
5/21/21 - Talk on "Black-Asian Solidarities and the Impasses of ‘How-To’ Anti-Racisms" | Upcoming QC Events
A reminder, please join AAARI for an online talk, ILLEGAL: The Chinese Immigrants of Angel Island, by Skyler Chin & Olivia Facini, on Tuesday, May 18, 2021, from 5:30pm to 7pm. This will be a live online lecture, open to the general public via Zoom and RSVP is required to attend.
Tune in for tonight's mayoral candidate forum, on CACF: Coalition for Asian American Children & Families FB page, or PIX 11 https://pix11.com/community/how-will-nycs-next-mayor-support-the-citys-asian-american-community-find-out-at-forum/
5/7/21 - Talk on "Asian American Studies as Tools for Teaching about Race & Discrimination" | Celebrating AAPI Heritage Month
Prof. Catherine Ma will present on how the struggles and triumphs of Asian Americans can provide undergraduate students with a multicultural perspective to better understand structural racism, and offer examples for professors to engage their classes with difficult concepts related to racism and dis...
read CUNY FORUM contributor Mai Mang (Yibing Huang) new article in Chinese Literature Today on "Wang Mansheng From Silk Road to Hudson River"
(2020). Wang Mansheng. Chinese Literature Today: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 66-84.
4/16/21 - Book Talk on "Asian Women in Corporate America"
CUNY FORUM Volume 8:1 (Summer 2020 to Winter 2021) ISSN: 2329-1125, 192 pages, $15 Special Eight Volume Bundle, $60 AAARI presents our limited print edition of Corona Conversations, edited by Russell C. Leong, based on our online international edition of CUNY FORUM, which captured the perspectives a...
4/2/21 - Talk on "Rising Tide of Hate and Violence against Asian Americans in New York During COVID-19"
Christopher M. Kwok is a mediator and arbitrator with JAMS, specializing in Labor & Employment law. He was previously the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Coordinator at the U.S. Equal Employment Commission in the New York District office. Mr. Kwok serves as the Board Director and Issues Committ...
Awareness matters. Saw the following while taking elevator at work. #stopasianhate #stopaapihate #stopaapihate✊🏻✊✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 #awareness #ontheelevator #captivate #atwork #beenplayingallweek
Asian Americans are demanding equal political power amid rising hate crimes
Asian American leaders are demanding equal voting access, more Asian American history in schools and other reforms amid a surge of racist attacks.
Buy limited print edition of Corona Conversations today! Available now.
CUNY FORUM Volume 8:1 (Summer 2020 to Winter 2021) ISSN: 2329-1125, 192 pages, $15 Special Eight Volume Bundle, $60 3/22/21 - A year since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Asian American / Asian Research Institute presents our limited print edition of Corona Conversations, based on our online...
CUNY FORUM Vol 8:1 - Corona Conversation is here.
CUNY FORUM Vol 8:1 - Corona Conversation is here.
3/12/21 - Talk by Param Ajmera on "Anandibai Joshee and the Insurgence of International Students"
Coronavirus Resources – Asian American and Asian Research Institute
Coronavirus Resources March 5, 2021March 3, 2021 By AAARI Report an Incident / Safety Resources AP3CON – Stop AAPI Hate Incident Reporting Form Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Standing Against Hatred Asian American Federation – Anti-Bias Reporting Form / Safety Resources Center for Anti-Vi...
No time for videos? Listen to AAARI's recent lectures on the go or during your downtime on the following podcast services: Apple | Spotify | Google
No time for videos? Listen to AAARI's recent lectures on the go or during your downtime on the following podcast services: Apple | Spotify | Google
No time for videos? Listen to AAARI's recent lectures on the go or during your downtime on the following podcast services: Apple | Spotify | Google
3/10/21 - NYC Council District 1 Candidate Forum | Reminder: 3/5 Book Talk by Julie Suk
Call for Submissions - 2021 CUNY Asian American Film Festival | Reminder: 2/24 Talk by Gary Okihiro
This lecture is part of the 2020-21 Harriet and Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC) and National Endowment for the Humanities Colloquium entitled, “Internment & Resistance: Confronting Mass Detention and Dehumanization.” Many historians and Japanese Americans cite the loss of U.S. citizens...
2/4/21 - Artist Talk with Ho Tzu Nyen: The Critical Dictionary of Southeast Asia
Presented together with the Mishkin Gallery at Baruch College/CUNY, the talk will feature a screening of Singaporean artist Ho Tzu Nyen's The Critical Dictionary of Southeast Asia (cdosea.org). This art project uses image, sound, and text to interrogate the culture which has constructed the notion ...
Learn more about Emile Bocian from our 2017 lecture with Kevin Chu, based on his essay for CUNY FORUM, https://aaari.info/17-02-24chu/
The exhibit curated by MOCA and the Center For Jewish History focuses on the work of Emile Bocian, a largely unknown photojournalist who died in 1990 and took tens of thousands of photos of Asian New Yorkers.
Judy Yung, Chinatown native and early scholar of Chinese-American life, dies at 74
Judy Yung rose from a childhood in a Chinatown tenement to become a preeminent scholar on the Chinese-American experience.
Sad to find out our friend and CUNY FORUM contributor Judy Yung recently passed away. You can watch her past 2015 AAARI talk based on her research on ‘Chinese Immigration and Poetry at Angel Island and Ellis Island’ online, https://aaari.info/15-03-06yung/
Chinese Immigration and Poetry at Angel Island and Ellis Island January 12, 2017March 6, 2015 By Judy Yung In the early twentieth century, most Chinese immigrants coming to the United States were detained at the Angel Island Immigration Station in San Francisco Bay. There, they were subject to physi...
Asian American / Asian Research Institute - City University of New York
Missed an AAARI lecture? Catch our podcast channel on Apple, Spotify or Google. Search for AAARI. Learn something new during the holidays at home. #podcast #spotify #applepodcast #itunes #googlepodcast
CUNY Ethics & Morality Essay Contest (Submission Extended to 11/30)
Reminder, join the Asian American / Asian Research Institute for an online book talk on, Queering Law and Order: LGBTQ Communities and the Criminal Justice System, by Kevin Nadal, on Friday, November 20, 2020, from 6pm to 8pm. The lecture video will be available to view on our website and YouTube...
Asian American / Asian Research Institute - City University of New York
54% of Asian American voters report being more enthusiastic for the 2020 elections than any other election. With this much excitement, why wait? Check your early voting options TODAY for #VoteEarly day at https://voteearlyday.org/vote-early/
Asian American / Asian Research Institute - City University of New York
Asian American and Pacific Islander voters will play a pivotal role in the elections. So why wait until election day? Beat the lines, #VoteEarly and join us for Vote Early Day https://voteearlyday.org/vote-early/
Countdown to our future. Less than 1 hour left. The census ends October 16th, 6am. My2020census.gov #2020census #getcountednyc
Countdown to our future. Less than 3 hours left. The census ends October 16th, 6am. My2020census.gov #2020census #getcountednyc
Countdown to our future. Less than 12 hours left. The census ends October 16th, 6am. My2020census.gov. #2020census #getcountednyc
Countdown to our future. Less than 24 hours left. The census ends October 16th, 6am. My2020census.gov. #2020census #getcountednyc
Census Deadline 10/16, 6am EST | Book Talk by Margaret M. Chin (10/23)
Close to 40% of New Yorkers STILL need to self-respond to the #2020Census. Get counted NOW. Deadline is Friday, Oct. 16 at 6am, online. #GetCountedNYC
Close to 40% of New Yorkers STILL need to self-respond to the #2020Census. Get counted NOW. Deadline is Friday, Oct. 16 at 6am: my2020census.gov #GetCountedNYC
Countdown to our future. Last call. Phone and text bank. Join last phone and text bank across all five boroughs! Thursday, October 15, 2-4pm and 6-8pm. RSVP at nyc.gov/CensusHelp #2020Census #GetCountedNYC
Deadline 10/15. Fill it out now!
Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented, writing, "The harms caused by rushing this year's census count are irreparable."
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