May is Asian American and Pacific Islanders Heritage Month and in celebration this episode of A New York Minute In History Podcast 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.
Guests on this episode include Dr. John Kuo Wei (Jack) Tchen, Director, Clement A. Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and Modern Experience at Rutgers University Newark and Ashley Hopkins-Benton, Senior Historian and Curator at the New York State Museum.
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Photo: Chinatown, in Manhattan (NYC Tourism).
