The Bridgewater Communities for Civil Rights, the Bridgewater
Council on Aging, and Bridgewater State University present Asian Americans:
History, Memories, and Social Justice, a two-part event with discussions of
the past, present, and future of the Asian American Community in Massachusetts, on May 10 and 24 from 6-7:30 pm.
Part I, Monday, May 10: “Asian Immigration Over the Past 200 Years”
Tackey Chan, State Representative for the 2nd
Suffolk District, will deliver the opening remarks.
Emily Williams, Elder
Affairs Director of the Bridgewater Council on Aging; and Vernon Domingo, PhD.,
a BCCR member and BSU Professor Emeritus, will introduce speakers Wing-kai To,
Ph.D., Assistant Provost for Global Engagement and Professor of History at
Bridgewater State University, and author of Chinese in
Boston, 1870-1965; Jean Wu, Ph.D. Professor
Emeritus in American Studies at Tufts University, 2019 Asian American
Commission Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, and co-editor of Asian
American Studies Now: A Critical Reader; and Philip Chong, President and
CEO of Quincy Asian Resources, Inc.
Part II, Monday, May 24: “Asian American Stories and
Social Justice”
Dr.
Wing-kai To will introduce speakers Stephanie Fan, retired
educator, community leader, consultant, and organizer of the group Greater
Boston Asian American Seniors for Peace and Justice; and Michael
Liu, Ph.D., Research Fellow in the Institute of Asian American
Studies at UMass Boston, and author of Forever
Struggle: Activism, Identity and Survival in Boston's Chinatown.
Open to the BSU community and the public.
Register for Part I here:
https://bridgew.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMscemgrTMvEtFzNdWtNa-E8uwewVg2F83U
Register
for Part II here:
https://bridgew.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJArdeqvrDwsGtZbnfEhY7GNG-rODySNlMTE