The Asian American / Asian Research Institute (AAARI) was established on November 19, 2001, by The City University of New York (CUNY) Board of Trustees, in a resolution introduced by Chancellor Matthew Goldstein. The Institute is a university-wide scholarly research and resource center that focuses on policies and issues that affect Asians and Asian Americans. It covers four areas: Asian American Studies; East Asian Studies; South Asian Studies; and Trade & Technology Studies.
https://aaari.info
Chinese Couplets (Women's History Month Screening)
Part memoir, part history, part investigation, in Chinese Couplets, filmmaker Felicia Lowe searches for answers about her mothers emigration to America during the Chinese Exclusion era. Lowes documentary reveals the often painful price paid by immigrants who abandoned their personal identity, the burden of silence they passed on to their offspring, and the intergenerational strife between immigrants and their American born children.