Fri Apr 26 2024

May 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 District, Manhattan. Guests: Dr. John Kuo Wei (Jack) Tchen, Director, Clement A. Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience at Rutgers University Newark and Ashley Hopkins- Benton, Senior Historian and Curator at the New York State Museum. A New York Minute in History is a production of WAMC Northeast Public Radio and the New York State Museum, wi...