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A New York Minute In HistoryChinatown Community History | A New York Minute in HistoryMay is Asian American and Pacific Islanders Heritage Month and in celebration this episode highlights the community history of Manhattan’s Chinatown, one of the oldest and largest Chinese and Chinese American communities in the United States. The episode tells the story of how during a time of change in the late 1970s the Chinatown community moved to preserve and archive its own history, which had long been ignored and marginalized by the dominant cultural institutions of the area.
Featured image: Chinatown, Manhattan. Image: NYC Tourism.com
Marker of Focus: Chinatown and Little Italy Historic Di...
2024-04-2629 min
A New York Minute In HistoryChinatown Community History | A New York Minute in HistoryMay is Asian American and Pacific Islanders Heritage Month and in celebration this episode highlights the community history of Manhattan’s Chinatown, one of the oldest and largest Chinese and Chinese American communities in the United States. The episode tells the story of how during a time of change in the late 1970s the Chinatown community moved to preserve and archive its own history, which had long been ignored and marginalized by the dominant cultural institutions of the area.
Featured image: Chinatown, Manhattan. Image: NYC Tourism.com
Marker of Focus: Chinatown and Little Italy Historic Di...
2024-04-2629 min
WBGO Journal Podcast42nd annual MTW virtual event set for Saturday, February 19WBGO Journal host Doug Doyle chats with Clement Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience's Jack Tchen and Salamishah Tillet, as well with Marion Thompson Wright Reader author and acclaimed historian Graham Russell Gao Hodges
2022-02-1625 min
Making MeaningHistorias vivas de raza y racismoDanyetta Najoli, cofundadora de The Black American Tree Project, explica cómo el diseño del proyecto de narración inmersiva evoca un sentido de reconocimiento de los orígenes de la esclavitud. El Dr. Jack Tchen, Profesor inaugural de Clement A. Price en Historia Pública y Humanidades y Director del Price Institute en la Universidad de Rutgers, profundiza en las historias de despojo.Obtenga más información sobre The Black American Tree Project y Ohio Humanities, que apoyó el proyecto mediante una subvención.Explore el proyecto de historia pública del Dr. Jack T...
2021-11-0911 minMaking MeaningLiving Histories of Race and RacismL. Danyetta Najoli, co-founder of The Black American Tree Project, explains how the project’s immersive story-telling design evokes a sense of reckoning with slavery’s origins. Dr. Jack Tchen, the Inaugural Clement A. Price Professor of Public History and the Humanities and Director of the Price Institute at Rutgers University, takes a deep dive into histories of dispossession.Learn more about The Black American Tree Project and Ohio Humanities, which supported the project through a grant.Explore Dr. Jack Tchen’s public history project, Dismantling Eugenics, watch his NYU Skirball “Paradigm Shifter” interview, and take a div...
2021-11-0923 min
In the Envelope: The Actor’s PodcastTIME’S UPToday’s “In the Envelope” episode takes an in-depth look at safety and parity in the entertainment industry, and in particular an organization leading that conversation. We’re honored to be joined by Tina Tchen, president and CEO of TIME’S UP: https://timesupnow.org
Created in 2018 partly in response to sexual assault allegations in Hollywood and its resulting #MeToo movement, TIME’S UP Now and the TIME’S UP Foundation advocate for “a society free of gender-based discrimination in the workplace and beyond.” Amid our country’s ongoing reckoning of discrimination and systemic inequity within multiple industries, TIME’S UP has partnered with...
2021-04-291h 15
Civics 101The Chinese Exclusion ActBetween 1882 and 1965, a huge percentage of would-be Chinese immigrants were excluded from the United States. This is the story of how the U.S. came to exclude Chinese workers from immigration and Chinese immigrants from citizenship, the multi-generational reverberations of this practice and its extension to nearly all Asians and Pacific Islanders.
Jack Tchen of Rutgers University and Jane Hong of Occidental College are our guides to the Chinese Exclusion Act.
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2021-04-2025 min
No Politics at the Dinner Table - PodcastThe Archives of Anti-Asian Fear (w/Jack Tchen) - Ep87 - 3.24.21Brothers-in-law Amit and Tony discuss the Atlanta massacre, anti-Asian ideology, and culture in the plural with historian, museum curator, and archivist Jack Tchen. Amongst many things, we learn that George Washington was really into Chinese dinnerware.
2021-03-241h 07
Meant To Be EatenJack Tchen on the history of Chinatown and yellow perilJack (John Kuo Wei) Tchen is a facilitator, teacher, historian, curator, re-organizer, and dumpster diver. He co-founded the Museum of Chinese in America in 1979-80 where he continues to serve as senior historian. He’s researched and written widely on Chinatowns and anti-Asian fears, on everyday intermingling and improvisations; and is currently grappling with issues like dispossession, climate change, and why it’s especially important for those in/around food to lead change…so, a little bit of everything this episode.It's HRN's annual summer fund drive, this is when we turn to our listeners and ask that y...
2019-06-1655 min
ASHP PodcastJack Tchen on Memorializing Obscured Histories: Monuments in New York and BeyondHow do we think about history? Whose history is it? And how is history constructed, both in academic terms and in a public way?These questions were made apparent in discussions of the NYC Mayor’s Commission on Monuments, where Jack Tchen, Professor of Public History and the Humanities at Rutgers University, served as a panelist. In this episode, Tchen walks us through the ways the city’s public history has been organized, the processes and findings of the Commission, and a vision to re-establish Lenape life, history, and culture into historical discourse of the region.This episode features audio from...
2019-03-1520 min
Think About ItFree Speech 42: Jack Tchen--Must Columbus Fall?Should Columbus Fall? Should the statue be toppled, and should Columbus Circle be renamed while we're at it? In 2017 New York City's Mayor, Bill de Blasio, charged a high-profile commission with the task of determining what to do about the statue of Columbus and a few other figures that generate heated debates. Professor Jack Tchen, the author of Yellow Peril and a co-founder of New York City's Museum of Chinese in America, talks about the controversy and how the committee responded.Uli Baer teaches literature and photography as University Professor at New York University. A recipient of G...
2019-01-291h 07
KUCI: SubversityKUCI Subversity: Remembering Him Mark LaiFresh from the Association for Asian American Studies conference in Austin, Texas that ended Saturday 10 April, 2010, we bring Subversity listeners portions of the tribute to Him Mark Lai, the "Dean" of Chinese American History, who died in May 2009. Bilingual in English and Chinese, Him Mark Lai forged a pathway to today's Chinese American -- and Asian American -- studies by researching and documenting life in Chinese America over the decades. The panel discussion at AAAS included colleagues and friends of Him Mark Lai as well as those mentored by him. Chairing the April 8, 2010 session was Prof. Madeline Hsu (University of...
2010-04-1300 min