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.
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Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA
In Refusing Death, Nadia Y. Kim tells the stories of Asian and undocumented Latin@ immigrant women, finding that they are influential because of their ability to remap politics, community, and citizenship in the face of the countrys nativist racism and system of class injustice, defined not just by disproportionate environmental pollution but also by neglected schools, surveillance and deportation, and political marginalization.
The Children of the People: Writings by and about CUNY students on race and social justice
In 1849, Horace Webster, the first president of the Free Academy said of the radical social experiment that would eventually become the City University of New York: The experiment is to be tried, whether the children of the people, the children of the whole people, can be educated, and whether an institution of the highest grade, can be controlled by the popular will, not by the privileged few, but by the privileged many...
Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands
Author Dorothy Moss will present on Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands, a catalogue of the stunning work by the late contemporary Chinese American artist Hung Liu (1948-2021), who blended painting and photography to offer new frameworks for understanding portraiture in relation to time, memory, and history. Often working from photographs, Liu used portraiture to elevate overlooked subjects, amplifying the stories of those who had historically been invisible or unheard...
Shapes, Lines, and Light: My Grandfathers American Journey
Minoru Yamasaki described the feeling he sought to create in his buildings as serenity, surprise, and delight. In Shapes, Lines, and Light, Katie Yamasaki charts his life and work: his childhood in Seattles Japanese immigrant community, paying his way through college working in Alaskas notorious salmon canneries, his success in architectural school, and the transformative structures he imagined and built...
We Are Here: 30 Inspiring Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Who Have Shaped the United States
A stunning anthology licensed in partnership with the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center,We Are Herecelebrates 30of the most inspiring Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in U.S. history. With over 23 million people of Asian and Pacific Islander descent living in the United States, their stories span across generations, as well as across the world...
Racial Battle Fatigue in Faculty: Perspectives and Lessons from Higher Education
Editors Nicholas D. Hartlep and Daisy Ball will discuss their book, Racial Battle Fatigue in Faculty (Routledge, 2019) which examines the challenges faced by diverse faculty members in colleges and universities. Highlighting the experiences of faculty of colorincluding African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, and Indigenous populationsin higher education across a range of institutional types, chapter authors employ an autoethnographic approach to the telling of their stories...
Hollywood in China: Behind the Scenes of the Worlds Largest Movie Market
China surpassed North America to become the world s largest movie market in 2020. Formerly the focus of exotic fascination in the golden age of Hollywood, today the Chinese are a make-or-break audience for Hollywoods biggest blockbusters. And movies are now an essential part of Chinas global soft power strategy: a Chinese real estate tycoon, who until recently was the major shareholder of the AMC theater chain, built the worlds largest film production facility...
We Are American Soldiers (Documentary)
Since Americas inception, immigrants have shown their gratitude to this country through military service. We Are American Soldiers is a short documentary film capturing the stories of Chinese Americans who served this country during World War II, only to return home to face discrimination...
We Are American Soldiers (Documentary)
Since Americas inception, immigrants have shown their gratitude to this country through military service. We Are American Soldiers is a short documentary film capturing the stories of Chinese Americans who served this country during World War II, only to return home to face discrimination...
Celebrating Our Roots Panel Discussion to Honor the 40th Anniversary of the 1982 Chinatown Garment Worker Rallies
Panel speakers will share personal stories about growing up with sewing mothers and grandmothers during the decades when practically every Chinese immigrant family in New York City included garment factory workers - the hard work and long hours, the social environment and friendships, union benefits and programs, and the strength, solidarity and activism of the immigrant women workers. Speakers will discuss how they teach this history and legacy to new generations.