The American Studies Certificate Program & the Advanced Research Collaborative are pleased to present a special lunch with Ava Chin as she performs and talks about her new in-paperback book Mott Street (Penguin Press), about the impact of the nation’s first immigration restrictions on four generations of her family in NYC’s Chinatown.

Ava Chin, a 5^th generation New Yorker, is the author of Mott Street, a 2024 ALA Notable Book and a Best Book of 2023 by TIME, the San Francisco Chronicle, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, and Elle. Chin, head of the American Studies Certificate Program and a professor of creative nonfiction, will be in conversation with Vivian Louie, Professor of Urban Policy and Planning, and Director of the Asian American Studies Center and Program at Hunter College.

Cosponsored by the PhD Program in History and  the M.A. Program in Biography and Memoir

For more information about the event. Please RSVP here. Lunch will be served.

 

PERFORMANCE + BOOK TALK:

AVA CHIN “MOTT STREET”

 

Wednesday, May 1st

12:30 pm — 2:00 pm

CUNY GRADUATE CENTER

 Rm 1218: Segal Theatre

Open to the Public