Saturday, May 2, 2015 from 2:30-4pm at the Brookline Main Library (Hunneman Hall) at 361 Washington Street, Brookline.
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Event -
MIT Professor Emma Teng discussed her 2013 book "Eurasian: Mixed Identities in the United States, China, and Hong Kong, 1842-1943." "In Eurasian, Emma Jinhua Teng compares Chinese-Western mixed-race families in the United States, China, and Hong Kong, examining both the range of ideas that shaped the formation of Eurasian identities in these diverse contexts and the claims set forth by individual Eurasians concerning their own identities....[and shows] how changes in interracial ideology have allowed the descendants of some of these families to reclaim their dual heritage with pride."
Co-sponsored by the Brookline Dept. of Diversity, Inclusion, and Community Relations, the Brookline Asian American Family Network, the Chinese Historical Society of New England, and the Charles River Neighborhood Foundation.
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Event -
MIT Professor Emma Teng discussed her 2013 book "Eurasian: Mixed Identities in the United States, China, and Hong Kong, 1842-1943." "In Eurasian, Emma Jinhua Teng compares Chinese-Western mixed-race families in the United States, China, and Hong Kong, examining both the range of ideas that shaped the formation of Eurasian identities in these diverse contexts and the claims set forth by individual Eurasians concerning their own identities....[and shows] how changes in interracial ideology have allowed the descendants of some of these families to reclaim their dual heritage with pride."
Co-sponsored by the Brookline Dept. of Diversity, Inclusion, and Community Relations, the Brookline Asian American Family Network, the Chinese Historical Society of New England, and the Charles River Neighborhood Foundation.
L to R: Susan Chinsen, Executive Director Chinese Historical Society, Emma Jinhua Teng, author/speaker, Wing-Kai To Ph.D,
Participants listen to Professor Teng.
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Chris Chanyasulkit, BAAFN steering committee member, introduces Professor Teng in Hunneman Hall, Brookline Main Library
Attendees viewing the Chinatown Timeline
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