Corky Lee's Asian America: Fifty Years of Photographic Justice

“Join us for the New York launch of Corky Lee's Asian America a seminal work that traces Lee’s decades-long quest for photographic justice, following Asian American social movements for recognition and a remarkable documentation of vital moments in Asian American history and a timely reminder that it’s also a history that we continue to make. 

Speakers include David Henry Hwang, a Tony- and Grammy-Award-winning writer for stage and screen, whose works include M. Butterfly, Yellow Face, Aida, FOB, and Soft Power; Akemi Kochiyama, a Harlem-based community builder, writer, scholar-activist and co-director of the Yuri Kochiyama Solidarity Project; Hua Hsu, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Stay True and staff writer, The New Yorker; and Mae Ngai, co-editor of Corky Lee's Asian America, is Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and professor of history at Columbia University, and author of The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics (2021); and Chris Kwok, Chair of the Issues Committee, Asian American Bar Association of New York (AABANY).”