EventThe Foundation for AAPI Studies- Part 2
What are some of the most important pieces about the AAPI (Asian American and Pacific Islander) experience that should be included in the K-12 curriculum? How should we teach that …
EventThe Foundation for AAPI studies
What are some of the most important pieces about that experience that should be included in the K-12 curriculum? How should we teach that history and those stories? Panelists will …
News“Acceptable, But not Accepted”
An Interview with Ting-Yi Oei, director of the Asian American Education Program and Education Director for the 1882 Foundation, a Washington D.C.-based organization whose initial focus was to secure an Expression of Regret from the United States, apologizing for the Chinese Exclusion Acts and their impact on Chinese and other Asian Americans.
News“We have the right to be here”
In this time of collective grief and determination, we stand with Virginia’s Asian and Pacific Islander communities. “We have the right to be here,” proclaims Poet Laureate of Virginia Luisa A. Igloria. Virginia Humanities firmly believes this, too.
EventO Wondrous World! Ross Gay and Aimee Nezhukumatathil in Conversation
Authors Ross Gay (The Book of Delights) and Aimee Nezhukumatathil (World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments) discuss their new books, collected essays devoted to …
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EventIndigenous Poetry: Language as a Map Home
Virginia Poet Laureate Luisa A. Igloria (Maps for Migrants and Ghosts) and Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley (Dēmos: An American Multitude) read from and discuss their work exploring how language serves as …
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NewsThe Saving Grace of Spring Rolls
By Nora Pehrson Growing up in the 1970s in College Park, Maryland with a Vietnamese-born mother and an American-born father, Virginia Humanities Fellow Kim O’Connell’s experience of identity has always …
NewsMinority Millennials and the Rise of “Religious Nones”
By Nora Pehrson April Manalang is an assistant professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Norfolk State University, where she teaches classes on citizenship, race, religion, and immigration. As a Virginia Humanities …
NewsReturning to Saigon
In our episode “Voices of Vietnam: A Lost Homeland,” we spent some time with the oral history of Kim Delevett, recorded by historian Jason Stewart and found within Texas Tech …
