Portfolio – Building AAS across the Community College Classroom

August 20, 2017
Christa Baiada: Enhancing Awareness of Heterogeneity and Relevance to Students in Asian American Literature
By Keith Miyake on August 20, 2017
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August 19, 2017
Anita Baksh: Teaching Unit/Resources Indo-Caribbean Diaspora, Food and Cultural Identity
By Keith Miyake on August 19, 2017
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August 18, 2017
Trikartikaningsih Byas: Developing and Teaching a Course Using Non-fiction Work on Asian and Muslim Immigrant Experience
By Keith Miyake on August 18, 2017
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August 17, 2017
Jennifer Hayashida: Imitation as Analysis: Quoting Our Families and Seeing Ourselves
By Keith Miyake on August 17, 2017
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August 16, 2017
Caroline Kyungah Hong: Reframing Police Brutality and Black–Asian Relations through Comics
By Keith Miyake on August 16, 2017
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August 15, 2017
Prithi Kanakamedala: Exploring Race and Citizenship in Early Nineteenth-Century New York
By Keith Miyake on August 15, 2017
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August 14, 2017
Jungah Kim: Aesthetics and the Politics of Representation in Asian American Literature
By Keith Miyake on August 14, 2017
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August 13, 2017
Rose Kim: Teaching Asian American Studies in Introduction to Sociology
By Keith Miyake on August 13, 2017
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August 12, 2017
Swan Kim: Teaching Asian American Studies in the Bronx: K-Pop and Cultural Appropriation
By Keith Miyake on August 12, 2017
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August 11, 2017
Catherine Ma: Exploring the Psychology of Immigration
By Keith Miyake on August 11, 2017
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Building Asian American Studies across the Community College Classroom is a program to expand the teaching of Asian American Studies in community college classrooms across humanities disciplines. The program will begin with a Faculty Development Summer Institute for CUNY Community College Faculty and will be followed by a monthly public Colloquium in Asian American Studies at BMCC in the 2016-17 academic year.

Through engagement with academic scholarship, literary texts, community organizing and cultural work, this interdisciplinary Summer Institute for CUNY Community College Faculty will support participants to study and develop curricular materials for use in the classroom. The Institute will examine the following areas: critical concepts and frameworks in Asian American Studies; new Asian immigrant communities in New York City; gender and sexual labor; transnationalism and cultural production; Asian/American racialization, race and caste, cross-racial relationships, and diaspora. Being grounded in the diversity of our local communities allows us to cultivate what historian Robin Kelley calls a “polycultural” framework, or one that recognizes interrelationships between different cultures. By learning from texts by and about local Asian American communities, we can gain a better understanding of the dynamism and complexity of New York City itself.

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