New research from the National Academy of Science has shown that the poverty rate for the Asian American community is higher on the whole than that of white Americans. The gap is, in fact, only furthered by the high cost of living for many Asian Americans: one-third of all Asian Americans live in either New York, Los Angeles, or San Francisco. The high cost of living makes the poverty rate for Asian Americans about 2.5% higher than the statistic would have you believe! Find out more on the link to NPR’s story.
Asian American Studies at Princeton
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Stanford Chinese Railroad Workers Project
Stanford University has just launched a website that they hope will become a great resource for all those interested in researching Chinese railroad workers. Check it out! The website was launched today, May 10th, on the 144th anniversary of the Golden Spike being driven into the transcontinental railroad at Provo, Utah.
The website is here: ChineseRailroadWorkers.Stanford.edu
If you have anything that you would like to contribute to the website, please send an email to ChineseRailroadWorkers@Stanford.edu and make arrangements for sending material. Please ensure that you have the appropriate copyright or permission to whatever you plan on sending. Material is in both Chinese and English!
#UndocuAsians – A Film and Theater Performance in NYC
On May 20th, the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) will be hosting #UndocuAsians, a film and theater performance about the experiences of undocumented Asian American youths. Included is a performance by over a dozen undocumented Asian American youths who are members of AALDEF’s youth group RAISE. Poet and Activist Kelly Tsai will be a special presenter.
The performance will be from 7:30 to 9 on May 20th at 45 Bleecker Street, NYC. Tickets can be bought at http://undocuasian.eventbrite.com/#
More details: http://aaldef.org/events/special-events/may-20—-undocuasians-a-new-film-theater-performance-by-undocumented-asian-youth.html
Space Time: Presence
The Asian-American Arts Centre is sponsoring a discussion between leading Asian American artists and academics about space-time and how it relates to art and life more generally. The discussion will be hosted at the Christopher Henry Gallery in NYC on Friday, May 3rd from 6 to 8pm.
Further details can be found here.
The Asian American Studies Report is here!
After working on it this past week, the Asian American Studies Committee has completed its report on Princeton and Asian American Studies! You can find the link to it under the tab “Princeton on ASAM”
AARP Multicultural Markets and Engagement Internship
An internship information packet sent to us from Franklin Odo ’61 *75, the founder of the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program!
AARP’s Multicultural Markets and Engagement division has an internship program over the summer for minority undergraduate students. Interns will be placed in a division such as finance, marketing, communication, event planning, research or membership and will receive a stipend. The application deadline is March 31st. More information, including application materials, can be found attached below.
Critical Encounters: Food, Writing, Intimacy
Next Tuesday, March 26th, the Critical Encounters series continues with a discussion between critics, academics, and chefs about food! The series, run by Professor Anne Cheng, attempts to bring together people from different backgrounds to discuss issues related to culture, race, and social justice.
Among the speakers featured in this event will be Anita Lo, a current leading Asian American chef. She has written a book entitled Cooking Without Bounds that examines being a woman of color in a culinary world primarily comprised to male, European chefs. Lo runs the restaurant Annisa, located on Manhattan’s Lower West Side, and has studied at the Ecole Ritz-Escoffier in Paris, graduating first in her class with honors.
Asian American Writers’ Workshop Spring Internship in NYC
Searching for something that you can’t encounter on a college walk? Stir crazy in your office cube? Reassessing your career path post-layoff? Contribute 15 hours a week to the Asian American Writers’ Workshop (AAWW) Internship this spring: meet new friends, build your portfolio of clips, and learn about Asian American literature and arts non-profit management.
Established in 1991, AAWW is a national not-for-profit arts organization devoted to the creating, publishing, developing and disseminating of creative writing by Asian Americans–in other words, we’re the preeminent organization dedicated to the belief that Asian American stories deserve to be told. Through our curatorial platform, which includes our New York events series based in Chelsea, and our online editorial initiatives, we’re building the Asian American intellectual culture of tomorrow.
The Margins, a bold new online magazine dedicated to Asian American creative culture, is the flagship publication of AAWW. Open City takes the real-time pulse of metropolitan Asian American as it’s being lived on the streets right now. And CultureStrike seeks to launch a cultural movement around immigration. To learn more, visit us at http://aaww.org/.
We offer the following positions (scroll down to read detailed descriptions):
- Publishing
- Editorial
- Development
- Design & Audio/Visual
- Marketing & Publicity
Our interns have opportunities to participate at every stage of the multi-media publication and event production process: planning and promoting our literary programming; building and contributing to our emerging magazines; shooting, recording, and editing photos, audio, and video, managing our social media and participating in grants research; designing and marketing our new initiatives; and learning about the bigger picture issues involved in organizational development. As an intern, you’ll receive a number of benefits including Workshop membership and free enrollment in a writing workshop.
The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America
Princeton is hosting a talk from Prof. Rachel Lee, the Associate Professor of English and Women’s Studies at UCLA, entitled “Exquisite Corpse of Asian America,” which “examines Asian bodies as they overlap with various discourses on technology, transnationalism, cyberspace, and sexuality, in a variety of genres such as stand-up comedy, dance, new media/digital technology, and literature” (her website). It takes place Monday, March 11, 12:00-1:20 in 210 Dickinson Hall. Hope to see y’all there! #stayeducated
SPRING 2013 – AAS 322: A History of Race in the United States
Gary Y. Okihiro
A History of Race in the United States
AAS 322
This semester, visiting professor Gary Okihiro is teaching an introductory history of race in the U.S., including the intersections of racializations, as social constructions, with imperialism and conquest, science and explanation, gender and sexuality, and geography and place, and the policing of those taxonomies and their borders and violations.
Prof. Gary Y. Okihiro is a prominent Asian American author and scholar. He is a professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University in New York City and the founding director of Columbia’s Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race. In 2012, Prof. Okihiro recieved the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Asian American Studies.
We strongly recommend this course for any students potentially interested in Asian American Studies, or just looking to expand their academic horizons!
