Box 6

Abstract

The Asian/American Center, founded at Queens College in 1987, fostered community based research focused on the Asian diaspora and acted as a bridge between campus and community. The collection contains administrative materials such as newsletters and brochures, flyers and photographs of events, samples of translated documents from their Translation Program, materials from the Asian American Community Studies minor, and research produced by the A/AC.

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The A/AC connected with community members, students, community partners, and faculty through their public programming. This series contains outreach materials from lectures, freshman orientation, open house, seminars, conferences, student activities, campus-community partnerships, A/AC's 25th anniversary, and heritage events.

Scope and Contents The A/AC hosted many guest speakers and lecture series. This subseries contains promotional flyers and recordings of select lectures: “Campus Dialogues Series” “Year of China” Peter Kwong (2011-04-08) "AAPICS Lecture Series" DVD recordings and photographs available from the three sessions of Spring 2010 lectures. Below were the guest speakers in this series and titles of their talks: Lecture 1:...

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This series contains program outreach, event materials, Summer Institute materials, and scholarship program materials for the academic minor which began in 2010.

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This series contains reports, research from the 2000s census, and a "Working Papers" series produced by the Asian/American Center dating from the late 1980s up until the mid 2010s.

Scope and Contents From March to April 2010, A/AC hosted three Asian American Pacific Islander Community Studies (AAPICS) seminars. This subseries contains one folder with flyers advertising each session, one CD with images from the third session of the seminar series, and four cassette tape audio recordings. Session 1 (3/08/2010): "Engaging Post-1965 Queens: Teaching and Curriculum-Building for Culturally Diverse Communities" Session 2 (3/22/2010): "Our Asian American PI...

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This file contains media, promotional materials, oversized posters, and one publication of student reflections from the A/AC Summer Institute titled "At Home in the World: Young People Reflect on Asian American Communities". The Summer Institute ran from 2010-2011 during one week of the summer of July 2010 and July 2011. A flyer for the 2012 Summer Institute is included.

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This file contains flyers and brochures of events outside of the A/AC but kept by the center; some related to Asian American studies such as a flyer for the Asian American Student Conference, book talks, forums, and a brochure for a South Asian Summer Language Institute in Wisconsin, and other student resources unrelated to the center.

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This file contains one flyer and agendas for A/AC Student Council meetings from 2019-2020, a flyer for a student civic participation forum, and a flyer for a student talent show from 2013. Contains cassette tapes of a recorded student council meeting from March 2009.

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This file contains flyers, photographs, and posters of A/AC heritage events such as AAPI Heritage Month and Lunar New Year events (referred to on CD labels as "Chinese New Year" in 2004-5, and "Lunar New Year" in 2017). Eleven CDs with photographs. This file also contains two oversized posters advertising Lunar New Year festivities in 2017 and ten AAPI Heritage Month posters ranging from the years 1993, and 2015-2019 kept in flat files.