Mott Street: A Chinese American Family’s Story of Exclusion and Homecoming (Performance & Talk)

Join the CUNY Graduate Center’s American Studies Certificate Program and the Advanced Research Collaborative for this special lunch with Ava Chin—author, performer, and professor—as she performs and talks about her new in paperback book Mott Street (Penguin Books), about the impact of the country’s first immigration restrictions on four generations of her family in New York City’s Chinatown. Chin will be in conversation with Vivian Louie, Professor of Urban Policy and Planning, and Director of the Asian American Studies Center and Program at Hunter College.

Purchase Book: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/563929/mott-street-by-ava-chin/

Organizers
CUNY Graduate Center – American Studies Certificate Program
CUNY Graduate Center – Advanced Research Collaborative

Co-Sponsor
Asian American / Asian Research Institute – CUNY
Asian American Studies Program & Center at Hunter College/CUNY
CUNY Black, Race and Ethnic Studies Initiative (BRESI)
CUNY Graduate Center – Ph.D. Program in English
CUNY Graduate Center – Ph.D. Program in History
CUNY Graduate Center – M.A. Program in Biography and Memoir
Public Scholarship Practice Space (PS2) – Center for the Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center