Volume 33 (2022-23)
Taking up Space: Mental Health, Representation, and the Asian American Experience
INTERVIEW WITH DR. JENNY WANG BY KEVIN CHEN This piece was published in the 33rd digital volume of the Asian
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Transformation and Liberation Through Diasporic Storytelling: A Conversation with Joseph Juhn
If my previous identity query was grounded on, and perhaps confined by, this dualistic tension between Korea and America, the idea of diaspora liberated me from a geographic grounding of identity. It was a membership not only in the Korean or Korean American community but also in these larger sojourner communities around the world who share, no matter how remote or accurate, collective memories of the homeland, heritage and history.
Read moreTeaching Asian American Studies at CUNY: A Roundtable with the Asian American/Asian Research Institute (AAARI)
BY SONIYA MUNSHI, ANITA BAKSH, DR. CAROLINE KYUNGAH HONG, MARCIA LIU PH.D., YUNG-YI DIANA PAN, AND DR. LINTA VARGHESE MODERATOR
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The Evolution of Our American Dream: A Conversation with David Siev
The basis of [my documentary, BAD AXE] is my family—we’re Cambodian-Mexican-American. We live in this rural white community, and it’s us trying to keep our family restaurant alive and the American Dream alive during one of the most uncertain times in history amidst a pandemic, a racial reckoning, and everything else going on in our country in 2020. So it becomes a story that explores the question: how do you keep the American Dream alive today when it’s being challenged now more than ever?
Read moreTen Years After Oak Creek: Federal Policy Recommendations to Protect Communities Targeted by Hate
BY NIMARTA NARANG. One decade on, it is essential to revisit the 2012 attack on the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin–and to reflect on what more we must do to better protect our communities from similar horrific violence.
Read moreRemembering the “Comfort Women” Intergenerational Asian American Care Work
BY GRACE J. YOO, EUNICE H. HIM, AND SOOJIN JEONG. Asian American activists have been key to remembering the “comfort women” in the U.S. and globally. The act of remembering is often done through creating memorials, exhibits, films, conferences, and educational efforts. This paper examines Asian American activists’ remembrance work in building a memorial in the city of San Francisco.
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