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Talk Story! Breaking Down the Great Wall Between Adult Child and Immigrant Parents

I Street Conferencing Center – Mass. Ave 600 Massachusetts Avenue, NW (entry from I Street between 6/7th streets), Washington, DC, United States

There is an universal struggle many of us face in our relationships with our parents: the pursuit of their approval, the weight of their expectations, and the burden of unspoken obligations. Join us for a conversation with Amy Yip, author of "Unfinished Business: Breaking Down the Great Wall Between Adult Child and Immigrant Parents" and […]

Free

CAWH Conference 2023

Chinese American Women in History Conference 2023

Charles Sumner School 1201 17th Street Northwest, Washington, DC, United States

The 1882 Foundation is excited to announce the second Chinese American Women in History conference, to be held in Washington DC this fall. Themed, “Locating Kinship Across Space and Time,” the conference aims to explore how Chinese American women, both as historical subjects and contemporary practitioners of history, have forged interpersonal connections, fostered care, and facilitated community...

Talk Story Events - Finding My Identity as a Vietnamese-born Chinese American

Finding My Identity as a Vietnamese-born Chinese American – Amy Trang, PhD, 1882 Foundation

I Street Conferencing Center – I (Eye) St 615 I Street Northwest, Washington, DC, United States

Following the theme of this year's Chinese American Women in History Conference, 1882 Foundation senior team member, Dr. Amy Trang will share her story of "locating kinship across space and time" as a Vietnamese-born Chinese American. Dr. Trang will recount how, shortly after she was born, her family fled Vietnam as "boat people" to a […]

Free

Behind the Washington CYC

Behind the Washington CYC: The Club Guiding DC’s Asian Youth since 1939

I Street Conferencing Center – I (Eye) St 615 I Street Northwest, Washington, DC, United States

Since the 1900s, the Washington Chinese Youth Club (CYC) has created a safe space for Asian youth in the DMV area to express themselves through athletics and other various activities. Join us for a conversation with key members of the Washington CYC who have paved the road for the club over its many years and […]

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Blurring the Color Line: A Dialogue on Cross-Racial Kinship and Tensions

Where did the Chinese sit on the bus during Jim Crow segregation? Join us for a conversation with film director Dr. Crystal Kwok and her cousin LeAnna Morgan, who address this question in the documentary Blurring the Color Line as they unpack their family history as grocery store owners in a Black neighborhood in Augusta, […]

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Seeing Lost Enclaves - Jeffrey Yoo Warren

Seeing Lost Enclaves: relational reconstructions of erased communities of color

I Street Conferencing Center – I (Eye) St 615 I Street Northwest, Washington, DC, United States

Jeffrey Yoo Warren presents his project, Seeing Providence Chinatown, a virtual reconstruction of the since-destroyed Chinatown in Providence. Yoo Warren was recently named the Library of Congress 2023 Innovator in Residence, where he is expanding this work into Seeing Lost Enclaves, working with others around the country to produce additional “relational reconstructions” of other destroyed […]

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