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Thursday, April 28, 2005
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    Indo-Caribbean Businesses: Liberty Street, Richmond Hill, Queens (Asian/American Center)

    Asian in New York: From Asia From Queens

    South Asians have a reputation of being one of the most prosperous of the newest immigrant groups. But community advocates say this "model" status ignores pressing social ills, including poverty and post-9/11 discrimination. We discuss some of the challenges facing South Asians in New York, as well as a look at the younger generation's artistic and cultural response.

From Asia, From Queens: Part 1

Deepa Iyer, Executive Director of South Asian American Leaders of Tomorrow, a national non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring the full and equal participation by South Asians in civic and political life
» SAALT
and
Annetta Seecharran, Executive Director of South Asian Youth Action which provides South Asian youth with safe spaces
» SAYA!
and
John Liu, Democratic member of the New York City Council representing Northeast Queens
» John Liu's website
and
Madhulika Khandelwal, the Director of the Asian/American Center and Associate Professor in Urban Studies at Queens College, City University of New York, author, Becoming American, Being Indian: An Immigrant Community in New York City (Cornell University Press, 2002)
» Asian/American Center at Queens College

From Asia From Queens, Part 2

Marian Yalini Thambynayagam, a poet and performer of Sri Lankan Tamil origin, born in England and raised in Texas, and a member of Mango Tribe, a Pan-Asian women’s experimental performance group
» Mambo Collective
and
Suketu Mehta, a writer and journalist based in New York and author of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction finalist, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found (Knopf, 2004)
» More on Suketa Mehta
and
Vivek Bald (DJ Siraiki), a New York-based documentary filmmaker and music producer and one of the pioneers of NYC's South Asian electronic music scene and a member of VISIBLE collective
» Disappeared in America Project
» Documentary: Mutiny: Asians Storm British Music
and
Mallika Dutt, the founder and executive director of Breakthrough, an international human rights organization based in Jackson Heights and New Delhi
» BreakThrough

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