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The Right to Stay

I wait for Jong-Min You in a small Asian bakery close to the Bay Parkway subway station in Bensonhurst. It’s an early summer evening in May and Bensonhurst is lively and bustling with Chinese-run fresh...

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Surviving China’s Cultural Revolution

When China’s Chairman Mao Zedong launched the Cultural Revolution half a century ago, his avowed goal was to preserve the communist ideology. Mao then believed that the ruling Chinese Communist Party...

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Sarees by Word of Mouth

At the corner of Broadway and 74th Street, a Bangladeshi woman is opening the storefront gate to an unassuming shop filled with ornate sarees, shalwar kamise, and decorative jewelry. Within an hour of...

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Collateral Damage

Shahina Parveen is the mother of Shahawar Matin Siraj, who was convicted in 2007 of allegedly conspiring to plant bombs in a Manhattan subway. Shahina maintains her son, Matin, is in prison for a crime...

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The Ice Cream That Never Melts

She grew up in Chinatown and worked in her family’s ice cream shop since she was 12. Through all these years, the shop survived, withstanding the many changes that have altered the landscape of...

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From Prison Chaplain to Imprisoned Chaplain

As a chaplain at Guantanamo ministering to Muslim detainees, James Yee’s job was to counsel and listen to the detainees. Many of the prisoners told him about acts of torture committed against...

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Dragon Ladies

“We’re never going to elect a Chinese person here,” a woman in Queens threw a campaign flyer at Grace Meng, who was then helping her father, Jimmy Meng, in his bid for a New York State Assembly seat in...

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Shaping a World Without Domestic Violence

Early in the morning on January 1, 2018, New York City suffered its first homicide of the year. Twenty-six-year-old Stacey Singh was found stabbed to death in her own home in Richmond Hill, Queens, on...

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Mapping Displacement and Resistance in Sunset Park

Teresa Gutierrez’s cadences in Spanish pulsated through the television screen as she described the changes happening in Sunset Park, her neighborhood in Brooklyn. “The rents are so high that our...

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Where South Asian Men Process Trauma

Against a backdrop of Bengali folk dancers, bhangra dance lessons and panipuri-eating contests, a handful of men in their twenties approached other South Asian men, of different builds, sizes and ages....

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Fear, Anxiety and Panic

Beit al-Maqdis, a mosque in Sunset Park but edging on the border of Bay Ridge, has 56 Google Reviews, all of which average an excellent 4.7 stars. “Very Good,” wrote Nassef Mohammed, rating Beit...

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What Does it Take to Create Art that Bridges Divides?

Flanked by a cluster of her sixth-grade students, Cecile Chong leaned forward gently, brush pen in hand, over a table lined with bright sheets of red paper. Waves of her long, black hair cascaded over...

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The Absence of Atta and the Dearth of Dal

In 2015, Kavitaa came to the South Asian Council for Social Services (SACSS) on 45th Ave in Flushing, Queens, to seek help. An elderly South Asian woman,  she was unable to speak English and fluent...

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“It’s now in our hands!”

During what I imagine was a cocaine-fueled burst of creativity, Freud assessed the uncanny — that strange feeling a person has when he or she experiences something familiar. A bit like deja vu, but...

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Love in the Time of Minder

“Looking for dulhan,” one reads. “Seeking the same halal/haram ratio like me.” Another proclaims. “Iaminterested” all in one go. Each profile leads with a one-liner, some spanning a simple greeting and...

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Unsettling the Nation from the Land: A Conversation with Manu Karuka

Manu Karuka and I first met in 2002. That year, I made the decision to pursue a PhD, in my late 30s, after working for twelve years as a documentary filmmaker. Manu and I were both in a seminar on the...

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Unsettling the Nation from the Land: A Conversation with Manu Karuka, Part Two

The following is the second half of a two-part interview with Manu Karuka, the author of Empire’s Tracks. Read part one, on anti-imperialist immigrant movements, the alternate history of the...

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If You See Me, Don’t Say Hi: An Interview with Neel Patel

In Neel Patel’s debut short story collection, If You See Me, Don’t Say Hi, which comes out in paperback this week, we meet a wonderful array of characters, nearly all of whom are trying to protect...

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Voices in the Archive: An Interview with Monique Truong

For much of the 2010s, the generous and brilliant Monique Truong was researching, traveling, and writing her third novel, The Sweetest Fruits, which released in early September 2019 from Viking Books....

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Occupied Kashmir: Poetry and Disappearance

How do you simultaneously disappear people and their hope? Can you keep that hope alive through writing? On this episode of AAWW Radio, we learn more about the current brutal lockdown in...

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