Yellow Peril Past and Present: Understanding Asian America through Personal and Historical Stories
A Road Scholar Program by Ada Cheng
When
May 15, 2024
6:30pm–7:30pm
Cost
Free
This highly interactive presentation/performance offers an exciting mixture of intimate personal storytelling and mini presentations packed with historical information. Dr. Ada Cheng will weave personal stories to highlight the myth of the model minority, the image of the perpetual foreigner, practices of othering via micro-aggression, and the negative impact of stereotypes and practices on Asian Americans and their mental health under the global pandemic.
Along with intimate storytelling, Ada will present, from a historical perspective, the various laws and regulations that have contributed to the construction of Asian Americans as the “other” in this country historically.
This event is Free and Open to the public. For more information, please contact Yumarys Polanco-Miller at ypolanco-miller@whiteoaklib.org.
Learn more about Ada Cheng, this program, and how to book it here.
Host Organization
Contact
Suite 650, 125 South Clark St.
Chicago, IL 60603
312.422.5580 312.374.6787
600 Troy Road
N4, Room 207
Edwardsville, IL 62025
618.468.5580
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