Just Another Immigrant’s Aspiration: Right to Happiness and World Peace
Please join Oakland University's AAPI Employee Resource Group in the celebration of AAPI heritage month through art and conversations with Chinese American painter Siyan Wong.
Please join Oakland University's AAPI Employee Resource Group in the celebration of AAPI heritage month through art and conversations with Chinese American painter Siyan Wong.
A Tale of Three Chinatowns explores the survival of urban ethnic neighborhoods in three American cities: Washington, D.C., Chicago, and Boston. Through the voices of residents, community activists, developers, and government officials, the film looks at the forces altering each community and the challenges that go with them, including the pressing issue of urban development and gentrification.
"Betrayed: Surviving an American Concentration Camp" tells the story of a group of Japanese Americans and their incarceration by the U.S. government during World War II. It also explores the long-term effects of this incarceration and the phenomenon of intergenerational trauma. More than 40 camp survivors and descendants bring an unparalleled immediacy and urgency to […]
The solo directorial debut of acclaimed film editor Li-Shin Yu. The film takes us back to the turn-of-the 20th-century San Francisco, when a deadly outbreak of bubonic plague in the city’s Chinatown and the hunt to identify its source led to an all-too-familiar spate of violent anti-Asian sentiment.
As America becomes more diverse, and more divided while facing unimaginable challenges, how do we move forward together? Told through intimate personal stories, PBS' "Asian Americans" five-part documentary series casts a new lens on U.S. history and the ongoing role that Asian Americans have played.
Weaving together never-before-seen archival footage and photographs, "Chinatown Rising" reveals a deeply personal portrait of a San Francisco neighborhood in transition. Chinatown activists of the 1960s reflect on their years as young residents waging battles for bilingual education, tenants’ rights and ethnic studies curriculum that would shape their community and nation.
Join the Michigan Pan Asian American Conference Saturday, May 28 from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. for meaningful discussions, interactive activities, guest speakers and free lunch, all in the Canton High School Cafeteria.
"Unsettled History: America, China, and the Doolittle Tokyo Raid" examines a key moment in American/Chinese history, exploring how the two sides remember this shared event in different ways, the reasons for this divergence and what lessons it may hold for today.
This film breaks open the hidden history of the US Army's Military Intelligence Service (MIS) during World War II, a story made possible because of a few aging Japanese American veterans with a little Internet savvy and a lot of determination.
Join The Detroit Writing Room Book Club for our May author talk featuring an intimate conversation with Frances Kai-Hwa Wang, author of "You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair is in Braids.”
As America becomes more diverse, and more divided while facing unimaginable challenges, how do we move forward together? Told through intimate personal stories, PBS' "Asian Americans" five-part documentary series casts a new lens on U.S. history and the ongoing role that Asian Americans have played.
In commemoration of the 40th anniversary of Vincent Chin, PBS Books is pleased to interview award-winning author Paula Yoo, who recently published “From A WHISPER TO A RALLYING CRY: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement”. It is a groundbreaking portrait of Vincent Chin and the case that took America’s Asian […]