BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Oakland Asian Cultural Center - ECPv6.16.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Oakland Asian Cultural Center X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://oacc.cc X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Oakland Asian Cultural Center REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200219T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200219T193000 DTSTAMP:20260727T012517 CREATED:20200122T231812Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200224T214153Z UID:7522-1582133400-1582140600@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Bojagi Wrapping Workshop DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 202-4 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for life stories of Chinese and Chinese Americans who endured racial violence and discrimination as second-class citizens during the 1850s to 1960s.  Ground-breaking authors Michael Luo* and Fae Myenne Ng*\, and Wong Kim Ark’s great-grandson Norman Wong\, share the stories of Chinese lives under American racial laws enacted to exclude\, deport\, and deny their due process of law.    From the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act to the 1956 Immigration and Naturalization Service’s (INS) Chinese Confession program\, the U.S. government scrutinized and separated families and communities\, conducted raids in Chinese communities\, and hunted for “illegal” paper sons. These stories echo the recent raids and terror enforced today against immigrants from Asia\, Africa\, and Latin America.   In Strangers in the Land\, Michael Luo illuminates the stories of racial violence and resistance of Chinese immigrants in the 19th century. Luo writes of early victims of anti-Asian violence\, like Gene Tong\, a Los Angeles herbalist who was dragged from his apartment and hanged by a mob during one of the worst mass lynchings in the country’s history\, and of demagogues like Denis Kearney\, a sandlot orator who became the face of the anti-Chinese movement in the late-1870s.   Fae Myenne Ng’s Orphan Bachelors is a memoir of San Francisco’s Chinatown and of a family building a life in a country bent on their exclusion. She writes\, “exclusion and confession WERE\, the two slamming doors of America … All his life\, my father raged that the Exclusion Act was a brilliant piece of legislation because it was bloodless. He’d intone\, ‘America didn’t have to kill any Chinese; her law assured none would be born.’”’   Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark. Wong Kim Ark fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen. Writes The Washington Post: “In 1895\, Wong Kim Ark returned from a visit to his family’s ancestral village in Taishan\, in China’s Guangdong province\, and was barred from reentering the United States. His three-year legal battle culminated in the Supreme Court’s ruling that the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment — which protects those born on U.S. soil who are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the government — affirmed his status as an American by birth.”    This event is sponsored by Eastwind Books\, Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Asian American Research Center (UC Berkeley)\, Center for Race & Gender (UCB)\, Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA) East Bay\, Asian American & Asian Diaspora Studies (UCB)\, Cal Alumni Association\, Chinese Chapter (UCB); Center for Race\, Immigration\, Citizenship & Equality\, (UC Law SF)\, History Department (UCB).   * Please note that Michael Luo and Fae Myenne Ng will join the panel virtually online.   Panelist Bios   Michael Luo is an executive editor at The New Yorker and writes regularly for the magazine on politics\, religion\, and Asian American issues. He joined The New Yorker in 2016. Before that\, he spent thirteen years at the New York Times\, as a metro reporter\, national correspondent\, and investigative reporter and editor. He is a recipient of a George Polk Award and a Livingston Award for Young Journalists. He is the author of Strangers in the Land: Exclusion\, Belonging\, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America.   Fae Myenne Ng is the author of Orphan Bachelors\, a Memoir\, the bestseller and PEN/Faulkner Fiction finalist Bone\, and the American Book Award winner Steer Toward Rock. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the American Academy of Arts & Letters\, the Guggenheim\, the Lannan Foundation\, the NEA\, the Radcliffe Institute\, and the Rockefeller Foundation. She teaches creative writing and literature in UC Berkeley’s Department of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies.    Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark\, who fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen in 1895\, thereby affirming the 14th Amendment’s establishment of birthright citizenship for all born in the United States. Norman lives in the Bay Area\, with his wife\, Maureen and children.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://oacc.cc/event/bojagi-wrapping-workshop/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/20200219BojagiThumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200222 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200224 DTSTAMP:20260727T012517 CREATED:20200103T004252Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200224T215058Z UID:7457-1582329600-1582502399@oacc.cc SUMMARY:An Orphan For You Conference DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 202-4 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for life stories of Chinese and Chinese Americans who endured racial violence and discrimination as second-class citizens during the 1850s to 1960s.  Ground-breaking authors Michael Luo* and Fae Myenne Ng*\, and Wong Kim Ark’s great-grandson Norman Wong\, share the stories of Chinese lives under American racial laws enacted to exclude\, deport\, and deny their due process of law.    From the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act to the 1956 Immigration and Naturalization Service’s (INS) Chinese Confession program\, the U.S. government scrutinized and separated families and communities\, conducted raids in Chinese communities\, and hunted for “illegal” paper sons. These stories echo the recent raids and terror enforced today against immigrants from Asia\, Africa\, and Latin America.   In Strangers in the Land\, Michael Luo illuminates the stories of racial violence and resistance of Chinese immigrants in the 19th century. Luo writes of early victims of anti-Asian violence\, like Gene Tong\, a Los Angeles herbalist who was dragged from his apartment and hanged by a mob during one of the worst mass lynchings in the country’s history\, and of demagogues like Denis Kearney\, a sandlot orator who became the face of the anti-Chinese movement in the late-1870s.   Fae Myenne Ng’s Orphan Bachelors is a memoir of San Francisco’s Chinatown and of a family building a life in a country bent on their exclusion. She writes\, “exclusion and confession WERE\, the two slamming doors of America … All his life\, my father raged that the Exclusion Act was a brilliant piece of legislation because it was bloodless. He’d intone\, ‘America didn’t have to kill any Chinese; her law assured none would be born.’”’   Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark. Wong Kim Ark fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen. Writes The Washington Post: “In 1895\, Wong Kim Ark returned from a visit to his family’s ancestral village in Taishan\, in China’s Guangdong province\, and was barred from reentering the United States. His three-year legal battle culminated in the Supreme Court’s ruling that the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment — which protects those born on U.S. soil who are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the government — affirmed his status as an American by birth.”    This event is sponsored by Eastwind Books\, Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Asian American Research Center (UC Berkeley)\, Center for Race & Gender (UCB)\, Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA) East Bay\, Asian American & Asian Diaspora Studies (UCB)\, Cal Alumni Association\, Chinese Chapter (UCB); Center for Race\, Immigration\, Citizenship & Equality\, (UC Law SF)\, History Department (UCB).   * Please note that Michael Luo and Fae Myenne Ng will join the panel virtually online.   Panelist Bios   Michael Luo is an executive editor at The New Yorker and writes regularly for the magazine on politics\, religion\, and Asian American issues. He joined The New Yorker in 2016. Before that\, he spent thirteen years at the New York Times\, as a metro reporter\, national correspondent\, and investigative reporter and editor. He is a recipient of a George Polk Award and a Livingston Award for Young Journalists. He is the author of Strangers in the Land: Exclusion\, Belonging\, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America.   Fae Myenne Ng is the author of Orphan Bachelors\, a Memoir\, the bestseller and PEN/Faulkner Fiction finalist Bone\, and the American Book Award winner Steer Toward Rock. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the American Academy of Arts & Letters\, the Guggenheim\, the Lannan Foundation\, the NEA\, the Radcliffe Institute\, and the Rockefeller Foundation. She teaches creative writing and literature in UC Berkeley’s Department of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies.    Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark\, who fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen in 1895\, thereby affirming the 14th Amendment’s establishment of birthright citizenship for all born in the United States. Norman lives in the Bay Area\, with his wife\, Maureen and children.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://oacc.cc/event/an-orphan-for-you-conference/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/20200223AOFYThumbnail.png ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200222T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200222T190000 DTSTAMP:20260727T012517 CREATED:20200109T225131Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200312T212911Z UID:7465-1582392600-1582398000@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Recalling the Ancestors: Buddhism and the WWII Japanese American Internment DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 202-4 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for life stories of Chinese and Chinese Americans who endured racial violence and discrimination as second-class citizens during the 1850s to 1960s.  Ground-breaking authors Michael Luo* and Fae Myenne Ng*\, and Wong Kim Ark’s great-grandson Norman Wong\, share the stories of Chinese lives under American racial laws enacted to exclude\, deport\, and deny their due process of law.    From the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act to the 1956 Immigration and Naturalization Service’s (INS) Chinese Confession program\, the U.S. government scrutinized and separated families and communities\, conducted raids in Chinese communities\, and hunted for “illegal” paper sons. These stories echo the recent raids and terror enforced today against immigrants from Asia\, Africa\, and Latin America.   In Strangers in the Land\, Michael Luo illuminates the stories of racial violence and resistance of Chinese immigrants in the 19th century. Luo writes of early victims of anti-Asian violence\, like Gene Tong\, a Los Angeles herbalist who was dragged from his apartment and hanged by a mob during one of the worst mass lynchings in the country’s history\, and of demagogues like Denis Kearney\, a sandlot orator who became the face of the anti-Chinese movement in the late-1870s.   Fae Myenne Ng’s Orphan Bachelors is a memoir of San Francisco’s Chinatown and of a family building a life in a country bent on their exclusion. She writes\, “exclusion and confession WERE\, the two slamming doors of America … All his life\, my father raged that the Exclusion Act was a brilliant piece of legislation because it was bloodless. He’d intone\, ‘America didn’t have to kill any Chinese; her law assured none would be born.’”’   Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark. Wong Kim Ark fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen. Writes The Washington Post: “In 1895\, Wong Kim Ark returned from a visit to his family’s ancestral village in Taishan\, in China’s Guangdong province\, and was barred from reentering the United States. His three-year legal battle culminated in the Supreme Court’s ruling that the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment — which protects those born on U.S. soil who are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the government — affirmed his status as an American by birth.”    This event is sponsored by Eastwind Books\, Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Asian American Research Center (UC Berkeley)\, Center for Race & Gender (UCB)\, Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA) East Bay\, Asian American & Asian Diaspora Studies (UCB)\, Cal Alumni Association\, Chinese Chapter (UCB); Center for Race\, Immigration\, Citizenship & Equality\, (UC Law SF)\, History Department (UCB).   * Please note that Michael Luo and Fae Myenne Ng will join the panel virtually online.   Panelist Bios   Michael Luo is an executive editor at The New Yorker and writes regularly for the magazine on politics\, religion\, and Asian American issues. He joined The New Yorker in 2016. Before that\, he spent thirteen years at the New York Times\, as a metro reporter\, national correspondent\, and investigative reporter and editor. He is a recipient of a George Polk Award and a Livingston Award for Young Journalists. He is the author of Strangers in the Land: Exclusion\, Belonging\, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America.   Fae Myenne Ng is the author of Orphan Bachelors\, a Memoir\, the bestseller and PEN/Faulkner Fiction finalist Bone\, and the American Book Award winner Steer Toward Rock. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the American Academy of Arts & Letters\, the Guggenheim\, the Lannan Foundation\, the NEA\, the Radcliffe Institute\, and the Rockefeller Foundation. She teaches creative writing and literature in UC Berkeley’s Department of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies.    Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark\, who fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen in 1895\, thereby affirming the 14th Amendment’s establishment of birthright citizenship for all born in the United States. Norman lives in the Bay Area\, with his wife\, Maureen and children.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://oacc.cc/event/recalling-the-ancestors-buddhism-and-the-wwii-japanese-american-internment/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/20200222RecallingWebThumbnail-01.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200301 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200329 DTSTAMP:20260727T012517 CREATED:20191109T211417Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200519T203820Z UID:7326-1583020800-1585439999@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Reflections on Home DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 202-4 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for life stories of Chinese and Chinese Americans who endured racial violence and discrimination as second-class citizens during the 1850s to 1960s.  Ground-breaking authors Michael Luo* and Fae Myenne Ng*\, and Wong Kim Ark’s great-grandson Norman Wong\, share the stories of Chinese lives under American racial laws enacted to exclude\, deport\, and deny their due process of law.    From the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act to the 1956 Immigration and Naturalization Service’s (INS) Chinese Confession program\, the U.S. government scrutinized and separated families and communities\, conducted raids in Chinese communities\, and hunted for “illegal” paper sons. These stories echo the recent raids and terror enforced today against immigrants from Asia\, Africa\, and Latin America.   In Strangers in the Land\, Michael Luo illuminates the stories of racial violence and resistance of Chinese immigrants in the 19th century. Luo writes of early victims of anti-Asian violence\, like Gene Tong\, a Los Angeles herbalist who was dragged from his apartment and hanged by a mob during one of the worst mass lynchings in the country’s history\, and of demagogues like Denis Kearney\, a sandlot orator who became the face of the anti-Chinese movement in the late-1870s.   Fae Myenne Ng’s Orphan Bachelors is a memoir of San Francisco’s Chinatown and of a family building a life in a country bent on their exclusion. She writes\, “exclusion and confession WERE\, the two slamming doors of America … All his life\, my father raged that the Exclusion Act was a brilliant piece of legislation because it was bloodless. He’d intone\, ‘America didn’t have to kill any Chinese; her law assured none would be born.’”’   Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark. Wong Kim Ark fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen. Writes The Washington Post: “In 1895\, Wong Kim Ark returned from a visit to his family’s ancestral village in Taishan\, in China’s Guangdong province\, and was barred from reentering the United States. His three-year legal battle culminated in the Supreme Court’s ruling that the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment — which protects those born on U.S. soil who are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the government — affirmed his status as an American by birth.”    This event is sponsored by Eastwind Books\, Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Asian American Research Center (UC Berkeley)\, Center for Race & Gender (UCB)\, Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA) East Bay\, Asian American & Asian Diaspora Studies (UCB)\, Cal Alumni Association\, Chinese Chapter (UCB); Center for Race\, Immigration\, Citizenship & Equality\, (UC Law SF)\, History Department (UCB).   * Please note that Michael Luo and Fae Myenne Ng will join the panel virtually online.   Panelist Bios   Michael Luo is an executive editor at The New Yorker and writes regularly for the magazine on politics\, religion\, and Asian American issues. He joined The New Yorker in 2016. Before that\, he spent thirteen years at the New York Times\, as a metro reporter\, national correspondent\, and investigative reporter and editor. He is a recipient of a George Polk Award and a Livingston Award for Young Journalists. He is the author of Strangers in the Land: Exclusion\, Belonging\, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America.   Fae Myenne Ng is the author of Orphan Bachelors\, a Memoir\, the bestseller and PEN/Faulkner Fiction finalist Bone\, and the American Book Award winner Steer Toward Rock. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the American Academy of Arts & Letters\, the Guggenheim\, the Lannan Foundation\, the NEA\, the Radcliffe Institute\, and the Rockefeller Foundation. She teaches creative writing and literature in UC Berkeley’s Department of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies.    Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark\, who fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen in 1895\, thereby affirming the 14th Amendment’s establishment of birthright citizenship for all born in the United States. Norman lives in the Bay Area\, with his wife\, Maureen and children.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://oacc.cc/event/reflections-on-home/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Exhibitions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/20200301ReflectionsExtendedThumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200306 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200701 DTSTAMP:20260727T012517 CREATED:20191220T235611Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200716T172455Z UID:7415-1583452800-1593561599@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Memory Vignettes & Poem-Paintings Series DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 202-4 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for life stories of Chinese and Chinese Americans who endured racial violence and discrimination as second-class citizens during the 1850s to 1960s.  Ground-breaking authors Michael Luo* and Fae Myenne Ng*\, and Wong Kim Ark’s great-grandson Norman Wong\, share the stories of Chinese lives under American racial laws enacted to exclude\, deport\, and deny their due process of law.    From the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act to the 1956 Immigration and Naturalization Service’s (INS) Chinese Confession program\, the U.S. government scrutinized and separated families and communities\, conducted raids in Chinese communities\, and hunted for “illegal” paper sons. These stories echo the recent raids and terror enforced today against immigrants from Asia\, Africa\, and Latin America.   In Strangers in the Land\, Michael Luo illuminates the stories of racial violence and resistance of Chinese immigrants in the 19th century. Luo writes of early victims of anti-Asian violence\, like Gene Tong\, a Los Angeles herbalist who was dragged from his apartment and hanged by a mob during one of the worst mass lynchings in the country’s history\, and of demagogues like Denis Kearney\, a sandlot orator who became the face of the anti-Chinese movement in the late-1870s.   Fae Myenne Ng’s Orphan Bachelors is a memoir of San Francisco’s Chinatown and of a family building a life in a country bent on their exclusion. She writes\, “exclusion and confession WERE\, the two slamming doors of America … All his life\, my father raged that the Exclusion Act was a brilliant piece of legislation because it was bloodless. He’d intone\, ‘America didn’t have to kill any Chinese; her law assured none would be born.’”’   Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark. Wong Kim Ark fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen. Writes The Washington Post: “In 1895\, Wong Kim Ark returned from a visit to his family’s ancestral village in Taishan\, in China’s Guangdong province\, and was barred from reentering the United States. His three-year legal battle culminated in the Supreme Court’s ruling that the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment — which protects those born on U.S. soil who are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the government — affirmed his status as an American by birth.”    This event is sponsored by Eastwind Books\, Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Asian American Research Center (UC Berkeley)\, Center for Race & Gender (UCB)\, Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA) East Bay\, Asian American & Asian Diaspora Studies (UCB)\, Cal Alumni Association\, Chinese Chapter (UCB); Center for Race\, Immigration\, Citizenship & Equality\, (UC Law SF)\, History Department (UCB).   * Please note that Michael Luo and Fae Myenne Ng will join the panel virtually online.   Panelist Bios   Michael Luo is an executive editor at The New Yorker and writes regularly for the magazine on politics\, religion\, and Asian American issues. He joined The New Yorker in 2016. Before that\, he spent thirteen years at the New York Times\, as a metro reporter\, national correspondent\, and investigative reporter and editor. He is a recipient of a George Polk Award and a Livingston Award for Young Journalists. He is the author of Strangers in the Land: Exclusion\, Belonging\, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America.   Fae Myenne Ng is the author of Orphan Bachelors\, a Memoir\, the bestseller and PEN/Faulkner Fiction finalist Bone\, and the American Book Award winner Steer Toward Rock. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the American Academy of Arts & Letters\, the Guggenheim\, the Lannan Foundation\, the NEA\, the Radcliffe Institute\, and the Rockefeller Foundation. She teaches creative writing and literature in UC Berkeley’s Department of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies.    Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark\, who fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen in 1895\, thereby affirming the 14th Amendment’s establishment of birthright citizenship for all born in the United States. Norman lives in the Bay Area\, with his wife\, Maureen and children.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://oacc.cc/event/memory-vignettes-poem-paintings-series/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Exhibitions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/20200308SalmaArastuThumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200315 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200401 DTSTAMP:20260727T012517 CREATED:20200313T202958Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200316T184634Z UID:7734-1584230400-1585699199@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Closed to the public DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 202-4 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for life stories of Chinese and Chinese Americans who endured racial violence and discrimination as second-class citizens during the 1850s to 1960s.  Ground-breaking authors Michael Luo* and Fae Myenne Ng*\, and Wong Kim Ark’s great-grandson Norman Wong\, share the stories of Chinese lives under American racial laws enacted to exclude\, deport\, and deny their due process of law.    From the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act to the 1956 Immigration and Naturalization Service’s (INS) Chinese Confession program\, the U.S. government scrutinized and separated families and communities\, conducted raids in Chinese communities\, and hunted for “illegal” paper sons. These stories echo the recent raids and terror enforced today against immigrants from Asia\, Africa\, and Latin America.   In Strangers in the Land\, Michael Luo illuminates the stories of racial violence and resistance of Chinese immigrants in the 19th century. Luo writes of early victims of anti-Asian violence\, like Gene Tong\, a Los Angeles herbalist who was dragged from his apartment and hanged by a mob during one of the worst mass lynchings in the country’s history\, and of demagogues like Denis Kearney\, a sandlot orator who became the face of the anti-Chinese movement in the late-1870s.   Fae Myenne Ng’s Orphan Bachelors is a memoir of San Francisco’s Chinatown and of a family building a life in a country bent on their exclusion. She writes\, “exclusion and confession WERE\, the two slamming doors of America … All his life\, my father raged that the Exclusion Act was a brilliant piece of legislation because it was bloodless. He’d intone\, ‘America didn’t have to kill any Chinese; her law assured none would be born.’”’   Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark. Wong Kim Ark fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen. Writes The Washington Post: “In 1895\, Wong Kim Ark returned from a visit to his family’s ancestral village in Taishan\, in China’s Guangdong province\, and was barred from reentering the United States. His three-year legal battle culminated in the Supreme Court’s ruling that the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment — which protects those born on U.S. soil who are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the government — affirmed his status as an American by birth.”    This event is sponsored by Eastwind Books\, Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Asian American Research Center (UC Berkeley)\, Center for Race & Gender (UCB)\, Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA) East Bay\, Asian American & Asian Diaspora Studies (UCB)\, Cal Alumni Association\, Chinese Chapter (UCB); Center for Race\, Immigration\, Citizenship & Equality\, (UC Law SF)\, History Department (UCB).   * Please note that Michael Luo and Fae Myenne Ng will join the panel virtually online.   Panelist Bios   Michael Luo is an executive editor at The New Yorker and writes regularly for the magazine on politics\, religion\, and Asian American issues. He joined The New Yorker in 2016. Before that\, he spent thirteen years at the New York Times\, as a metro reporter\, national correspondent\, and investigative reporter and editor. He is a recipient of a George Polk Award and a Livingston Award for Young Journalists. He is the author of Strangers in the Land: Exclusion\, Belonging\, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America.   Fae Myenne Ng is the author of Orphan Bachelors\, a Memoir\, the bestseller and PEN/Faulkner Fiction finalist Bone\, and the American Book Award winner Steer Toward Rock. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the American Academy of Arts & Letters\, the Guggenheim\, the Lannan Foundation\, the NEA\, the Radcliffe Institute\, and the Rockefeller Foundation. She teaches creative writing and literature in UC Berkeley’s Department of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies.    Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark\, who fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen in 1895\, thereby affirming the 14th Amendment’s establishment of birthright citizenship for all born in the United States. Norman lives in the Bay Area\, with his wife\, Maureen and children.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://oacc.cc/event/closed-to-the-public-4/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200419 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200420 DTSTAMP:20260727T012517 CREATED:20200211T175010Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200225T003342Z UID:7590-1587254400-1587340799@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Community Voices to Empower Change Series DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 202-4 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for life stories of Chinese and Chinese Americans who endured racial violence and discrimination as second-class citizens during the 1850s to 1960s.  Ground-breaking authors Michael Luo* and Fae Myenne Ng*\, and Wong Kim Ark’s great-grandson Norman Wong\, share the stories of Chinese lives under American racial laws enacted to exclude\, deport\, and deny their due process of law.    From the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act to the 1956 Immigration and Naturalization Service’s (INS) Chinese Confession program\, the U.S. government scrutinized and separated families and communities\, conducted raids in Chinese communities\, and hunted for “illegal” paper sons. These stories echo the recent raids and terror enforced today against immigrants from Asia\, Africa\, and Latin America.   In Strangers in the Land\, Michael Luo illuminates the stories of racial violence and resistance of Chinese immigrants in the 19th century. Luo writes of early victims of anti-Asian violence\, like Gene Tong\, a Los Angeles herbalist who was dragged from his apartment and hanged by a mob during one of the worst mass lynchings in the country’s history\, and of demagogues like Denis Kearney\, a sandlot orator who became the face of the anti-Chinese movement in the late-1870s.   Fae Myenne Ng’s Orphan Bachelors is a memoir of San Francisco’s Chinatown and of a family building a life in a country bent on their exclusion. She writes\, “exclusion and confession WERE\, the two slamming doors of America … All his life\, my father raged that the Exclusion Act was a brilliant piece of legislation because it was bloodless. He’d intone\, ‘America didn’t have to kill any Chinese; her law assured none would be born.’”’   Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark. Wong Kim Ark fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen. Writes The Washington Post: “In 1895\, Wong Kim Ark returned from a visit to his family’s ancestral village in Taishan\, in China’s Guangdong province\, and was barred from reentering the United States. His three-year legal battle culminated in the Supreme Court’s ruling that the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment — which protects those born on U.S. soil who are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the government — affirmed his status as an American by birth.”    This event is sponsored by Eastwind Books\, Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Asian American Research Center (UC Berkeley)\, Center for Race & Gender (UCB)\, Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA) East Bay\, Asian American & Asian Diaspora Studies (UCB)\, Cal Alumni Association\, Chinese Chapter (UCB); Center for Race\, Immigration\, Citizenship & Equality\, (UC Law SF)\, History Department (UCB).   * Please note that Michael Luo and Fae Myenne Ng will join the panel virtually online.   Panelist Bios   Michael Luo is an executive editor at The New Yorker and writes regularly for the magazine on politics\, religion\, and Asian American issues. He joined The New Yorker in 2016. Before that\, he spent thirteen years at the New York Times\, as a metro reporter\, national correspondent\, and investigative reporter and editor. He is a recipient of a George Polk Award and a Livingston Award for Young Journalists. He is the author of Strangers in the Land: Exclusion\, Belonging\, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America.   Fae Myenne Ng is the author of Orphan Bachelors\, a Memoir\, the bestseller and PEN/Faulkner Fiction finalist Bone\, and the American Book Award winner Steer Toward Rock. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the American Academy of Arts & Letters\, the Guggenheim\, the Lannan Foundation\, the NEA\, the Radcliffe Institute\, and the Rockefeller Foundation. She teaches creative writing and literature in UC Berkeley’s Department of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies.    Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark\, who fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen in 1895\, thereby affirming the 14th Amendment’s establishment of birthright citizenship for all born in the United States. Norman lives in the Bay Area\, with his wife\, Maureen and children.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://oacc.cc/event/community-voices-to-empower-change-series/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/2020CommunityVoicesThumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200419T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200419T143000 DTSTAMP:20260727T012517 CREATED:20200331T223637Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200909T173856Z UID:7809-1587301200-1587306600@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Our Communities\, Climate Change\, and COVID-19 DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 202-4 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for life stories of Chinese and Chinese Americans who endured racial violence and discrimination as second-class citizens during the 1850s to 1960s.  Ground-breaking authors Michael Luo* and Fae Myenne Ng*\, and Wong Kim Ark’s great-grandson Norman Wong\, share the stories of Chinese lives under American racial laws enacted to exclude\, deport\, and deny their due process of law.    From the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act to the 1956 Immigration and Naturalization Service’s (INS) Chinese Confession program\, the U.S. government scrutinized and separated families and communities\, conducted raids in Chinese communities\, and hunted for “illegal” paper sons. These stories echo the recent raids and terror enforced today against immigrants from Asia\, Africa\, and Latin America.   In Strangers in the Land\, Michael Luo illuminates the stories of racial violence and resistance of Chinese immigrants in the 19th century. Luo writes of early victims of anti-Asian violence\, like Gene Tong\, a Los Angeles herbalist who was dragged from his apartment and hanged by a mob during one of the worst mass lynchings in the country’s history\, and of demagogues like Denis Kearney\, a sandlot orator who became the face of the anti-Chinese movement in the late-1870s.   Fae Myenne Ng’s Orphan Bachelors is a memoir of San Francisco’s Chinatown and of a family building a life in a country bent on their exclusion. She writes\, “exclusion and confession WERE\, the two slamming doors of America … All his life\, my father raged that the Exclusion Act was a brilliant piece of legislation because it was bloodless. He’d intone\, ‘America didn’t have to kill any Chinese; her law assured none would be born.’”’   Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark. Wong Kim Ark fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen. Writes The Washington Post: “In 1895\, Wong Kim Ark returned from a visit to his family’s ancestral village in Taishan\, in China’s Guangdong province\, and was barred from reentering the United States. His three-year legal battle culminated in the Supreme Court’s ruling that the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment — which protects those born on U.S. soil who are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the government — affirmed his status as an American by birth.”    This event is sponsored by Eastwind Books\, Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Asian American Research Center (UC Berkeley)\, Center for Race & Gender (UCB)\, Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA) East Bay\, Asian American & Asian Diaspora Studies (UCB)\, Cal Alumni Association\, Chinese Chapter (UCB); Center for Race\, Immigration\, Citizenship & Equality\, (UC Law SF)\, History Department (UCB).   * Please note that Michael Luo and Fae Myenne Ng will join the panel virtually online.   Panelist Bios   Michael Luo is an executive editor at The New Yorker and writes regularly for the magazine on politics\, religion\, and Asian American issues. He joined The New Yorker in 2016. Before that\, he spent thirteen years at the New York Times\, as a metro reporter\, national correspondent\, and investigative reporter and editor. He is a recipient of a George Polk Award and a Livingston Award for Young Journalists. He is the author of Strangers in the Land: Exclusion\, Belonging\, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America.   Fae Myenne Ng is the author of Orphan Bachelors\, a Memoir\, the bestseller and PEN/Faulkner Fiction finalist Bone\, and the American Book Award winner Steer Toward Rock. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the American Academy of Arts & Letters\, the Guggenheim\, the Lannan Foundation\, the NEA\, the Radcliffe Institute\, and the Rockefeller Foundation. She teaches creative writing and literature in UC Berkeley’s Department of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies.    Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark\, who fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen in 1895\, thereby affirming the 14th Amendment’s establishment of birthright citizenship for all born in the United States. Norman lives in the Bay Area\, with his wife\, Maureen and children.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://oacc.cc/event/our-communities-climate-change-and-covid-19/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/20200419ClimateChangeThumbnail.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200430 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200701 DTSTAMP:20260727T012517 CREATED:20200519T203201Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200831T210203Z UID:7913-1588204800-1593561599@oacc.cc SUMMARY:"Textures of April 30th" Traveling Exhibition: Call for Submissions DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 202-4 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for life stories of Chinese and Chinese Americans who endured racial violence and discrimination as second-class citizens during the 1850s to 1960s.  Ground-breaking authors Michael Luo* and Fae Myenne Ng*\, and Wong Kim Ark’s great-grandson Norman Wong\, share the stories of Chinese lives under American racial laws enacted to exclude\, deport\, and deny their due process of law.    From the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act to the 1956 Immigration and Naturalization Service’s (INS) Chinese Confession program\, the U.S. government scrutinized and separated families and communities\, conducted raids in Chinese communities\, and hunted for “illegal” paper sons. These stories echo the recent raids and terror enforced today against immigrants from Asia\, Africa\, and Latin America.   In Strangers in the Land\, Michael Luo illuminates the stories of racial violence and resistance of Chinese immigrants in the 19th century. Luo writes of early victims of anti-Asian violence\, like Gene Tong\, a Los Angeles herbalist who was dragged from his apartment and hanged by a mob during one of the worst mass lynchings in the country’s history\, and of demagogues like Denis Kearney\, a sandlot orator who became the face of the anti-Chinese movement in the late-1870s.   Fae Myenne Ng’s Orphan Bachelors is a memoir of San Francisco’s Chinatown and of a family building a life in a country bent on their exclusion. She writes\, “exclusion and confession WERE\, the two slamming doors of America … All his life\, my father raged that the Exclusion Act was a brilliant piece of legislation because it was bloodless. He’d intone\, ‘America didn’t have to kill any Chinese; her law assured none would be born.’”’   Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark. Wong Kim Ark fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen. Writes The Washington Post: “In 1895\, Wong Kim Ark returned from a visit to his family’s ancestral village in Taishan\, in China’s Guangdong province\, and was barred from reentering the United States. His three-year legal battle culminated in the Supreme Court’s ruling that the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment — which protects those born on U.S. soil who are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the government — affirmed his status as an American by birth.”    This event is sponsored by Eastwind Books\, Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Asian American Research Center (UC Berkeley)\, Center for Race & Gender (UCB)\, Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA) East Bay\, Asian American & Asian Diaspora Studies (UCB)\, Cal Alumni Association\, Chinese Chapter (UCB); Center for Race\, Immigration\, Citizenship & Equality\, (UC Law SF)\, History Department (UCB).   * Please note that Michael Luo and Fae Myenne Ng will join the panel virtually online.   Panelist Bios   Michael Luo is an executive editor at The New Yorker and writes regularly for the magazine on politics\, religion\, and Asian American issues. He joined The New Yorker in 2016. Before that\, he spent thirteen years at the New York Times\, as a metro reporter\, national correspondent\, and investigative reporter and editor. He is a recipient of a George Polk Award and a Livingston Award for Young Journalists. He is the author of Strangers in the Land: Exclusion\, Belonging\, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America.   Fae Myenne Ng is the author of Orphan Bachelors\, a Memoir\, the bestseller and PEN/Faulkner Fiction finalist Bone\, and the American Book Award winner Steer Toward Rock. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the American Academy of Arts & Letters\, the Guggenheim\, the Lannan Foundation\, the NEA\, the Radcliffe Institute\, and the Rockefeller Foundation. She teaches creative writing and literature in UC Berkeley’s Department of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies.    Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark\, who fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen in 1895\, thereby affirming the 14th Amendment’s establishment of birthright citizenship for all born in the United States. Norman lives in the Bay Area\, with his wife\, Maureen and children.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://oacc.cc/event/textures-of-april-30th-traveling-exhibition/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/20210430TexturesThumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200501 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200601 DTSTAMP:20260727T012517 CREATED:20200513T195426Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200609T185159Z UID:7873-1588291200-1590969599@oacc.cc SUMMARY:APA Heritage Month List of Community Events DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 202-4 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for life stories of Chinese and Chinese Americans who endured racial violence and discrimination as second-class citizens during the 1850s to 1960s.  Ground-breaking authors Michael Luo* and Fae Myenne Ng*\, and Wong Kim Ark’s great-grandson Norman Wong\, share the stories of Chinese lives under American racial laws enacted to exclude\, deport\, and deny their due process of law.    From the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act to the 1956 Immigration and Naturalization Service’s (INS) Chinese Confession program\, the U.S. government scrutinized and separated families and communities\, conducted raids in Chinese communities\, and hunted for “illegal” paper sons. These stories echo the recent raids and terror enforced today against immigrants from Asia\, Africa\, and Latin America.   In Strangers in the Land\, Michael Luo illuminates the stories of racial violence and resistance of Chinese immigrants in the 19th century. Luo writes of early victims of anti-Asian violence\, like Gene Tong\, a Los Angeles herbalist who was dragged from his apartment and hanged by a mob during one of the worst mass lynchings in the country’s history\, and of demagogues like Denis Kearney\, a sandlot orator who became the face of the anti-Chinese movement in the late-1870s.   Fae Myenne Ng’s Orphan Bachelors is a memoir of San Francisco’s Chinatown and of a family building a life in a country bent on their exclusion. She writes\, “exclusion and confession WERE\, the two slamming doors of America … All his life\, my father raged that the Exclusion Act was a brilliant piece of legislation because it was bloodless. He’d intone\, ‘America didn’t have to kill any Chinese; her law assured none would be born.’”’   Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark. Wong Kim Ark fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen. Writes The Washington Post: “In 1895\, Wong Kim Ark returned from a visit to his family’s ancestral village in Taishan\, in China’s Guangdong province\, and was barred from reentering the United States. His three-year legal battle culminated in the Supreme Court’s ruling that the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment — which protects those born on U.S. soil who are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the government — affirmed his status as an American by birth.”    This event is sponsored by Eastwind Books\, Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Asian American Research Center (UC Berkeley)\, Center for Race & Gender (UCB)\, Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA) East Bay\, Asian American & Asian Diaspora Studies (UCB)\, Cal Alumni Association\, Chinese Chapter (UCB); Center for Race\, Immigration\, Citizenship & Equality\, (UC Law SF)\, History Department (UCB).   * Please note that Michael Luo and Fae Myenne Ng will join the panel virtually online.   Panelist Bios   Michael Luo is an executive editor at The New Yorker and writes regularly for the magazine on politics\, religion\, and Asian American issues. He joined The New Yorker in 2016. Before that\, he spent thirteen years at the New York Times\, as a metro reporter\, national correspondent\, and investigative reporter and editor. He is a recipient of a George Polk Award and a Livingston Award for Young Journalists. He is the author of Strangers in the Land: Exclusion\, Belonging\, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America.   Fae Myenne Ng is the author of Orphan Bachelors\, a Memoir\, the bestseller and PEN/Faulkner Fiction finalist Bone\, and the American Book Award winner Steer Toward Rock. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the American Academy of Arts & Letters\, the Guggenheim\, the Lannan Foundation\, the NEA\, the Radcliffe Institute\, and the Rockefeller Foundation. She teaches creative writing and literature in UC Berkeley’s Department of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies.    Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark\, who fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen in 1895\, thereby affirming the 14th Amendment’s establishment of birthright citizenship for all born in the United States. Norman lives in the Bay Area\, with his wife\, Maureen and children.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://oacc.cc/event/apa-heritage-month-list-of-community-events/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/2020APAHeritageMonthThumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200525 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200526 DTSTAMP:20260727T012517 CREATED:20200225T000151Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200225T002901Z UID:7659-1590364800-1590451199@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Closed for Memorial Day DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 202-4 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for life stories of Chinese and Chinese Americans who endured racial violence and discrimination as second-class citizens during the 1850s to 1960s.  Ground-breaking authors Michael Luo* and Fae Myenne Ng*\, and Wong Kim Ark’s great-grandson Norman Wong\, share the stories of Chinese lives under American racial laws enacted to exclude\, deport\, and deny their due process of law.    From the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act to the 1956 Immigration and Naturalization Service’s (INS) Chinese Confession program\, the U.S. government scrutinized and separated families and communities\, conducted raids in Chinese communities\, and hunted for “illegal” paper sons. These stories echo the recent raids and terror enforced today against immigrants from Asia\, Africa\, and Latin America.   In Strangers in the Land\, Michael Luo illuminates the stories of racial violence and resistance of Chinese immigrants in the 19th century. Luo writes of early victims of anti-Asian violence\, like Gene Tong\, a Los Angeles herbalist who was dragged from his apartment and hanged by a mob during one of the worst mass lynchings in the country’s history\, and of demagogues like Denis Kearney\, a sandlot orator who became the face of the anti-Chinese movement in the late-1870s.   Fae Myenne Ng’s Orphan Bachelors is a memoir of San Francisco’s Chinatown and of a family building a life in a country bent on their exclusion. She writes\, “exclusion and confession WERE\, the two slamming doors of America … All his life\, my father raged that the Exclusion Act was a brilliant piece of legislation because it was bloodless. He’d intone\, ‘America didn’t have to kill any Chinese; her law assured none would be born.’”’   Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark. Wong Kim Ark fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen. Writes The Washington Post: “In 1895\, Wong Kim Ark returned from a visit to his family’s ancestral village in Taishan\, in China’s Guangdong province\, and was barred from reentering the United States. His three-year legal battle culminated in the Supreme Court’s ruling that the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment — which protects those born on U.S. soil who are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the government — affirmed his status as an American by birth.”    This event is sponsored by Eastwind Books\, Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Asian American Research Center (UC Berkeley)\, Center for Race & Gender (UCB)\, Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA) East Bay\, Asian American & Asian Diaspora Studies (UCB)\, Cal Alumni Association\, Chinese Chapter (UCB); Center for Race\, Immigration\, Citizenship & Equality\, (UC Law SF)\, History Department (UCB).   * Please note that Michael Luo and Fae Myenne Ng will join the panel virtually online.   Panelist Bios   Michael Luo is an executive editor at The New Yorker and writes regularly for the magazine on politics\, religion\, and Asian American issues. He joined The New Yorker in 2016. Before that\, he spent thirteen years at the New York Times\, as a metro reporter\, national correspondent\, and investigative reporter and editor. He is a recipient of a George Polk Award and a Livingston Award for Young Journalists. He is the author of Strangers in the Land: Exclusion\, Belonging\, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America.   Fae Myenne Ng is the author of Orphan Bachelors\, a Memoir\, the bestseller and PEN/Faulkner Fiction finalist Bone\, and the American Book Award winner Steer Toward Rock. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the American Academy of Arts & Letters\, the Guggenheim\, the Lannan Foundation\, the NEA\, the Radcliffe Institute\, and the Rockefeller Foundation. She teaches creative writing and literature in UC Berkeley’s Department of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies.    Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark\, who fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen in 1895\, thereby affirming the 14th Amendment’s establishment of birthright citizenship for all born in the United States. Norman lives in the Bay Area\, with his wife\, Maureen and children.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://oacc.cc/event/memorial-day/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200530T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200530T133000 DTSTAMP:20260727T012517 CREATED:20200211T175916Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200609T185133Z UID:7600-1590840000-1590845400@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Celebrating Our HeART-filled Heritage DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 202-4 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for life stories of Chinese and Chinese Americans who endured racial violence and discrimination as second-class citizens during the 1850s to 1960s.  Ground-breaking authors Michael Luo* and Fae Myenne Ng*\, and Wong Kim Ark’s great-grandson Norman Wong\, share the stories of Chinese lives under American racial laws enacted to exclude\, deport\, and deny their due process of law.    From the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act to the 1956 Immigration and Naturalization Service’s (INS) Chinese Confession program\, the U.S. government scrutinized and separated families and communities\, conducted raids in Chinese communities\, and hunted for “illegal” paper sons. These stories echo the recent raids and terror enforced today against immigrants from Asia\, Africa\, and Latin America.   In Strangers in the Land\, Michael Luo illuminates the stories of racial violence and resistance of Chinese immigrants in the 19th century. Luo writes of early victims of anti-Asian violence\, like Gene Tong\, a Los Angeles herbalist who was dragged from his apartment and hanged by a mob during one of the worst mass lynchings in the country’s history\, and of demagogues like Denis Kearney\, a sandlot orator who became the face of the anti-Chinese movement in the late-1870s.   Fae Myenne Ng’s Orphan Bachelors is a memoir of San Francisco’s Chinatown and of a family building a life in a country bent on their exclusion. She writes\, “exclusion and confession WERE\, the two slamming doors of America … All his life\, my father raged that the Exclusion Act was a brilliant piece of legislation because it was bloodless. He’d intone\, ‘America didn’t have to kill any Chinese; her law assured none would be born.’”’   Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark. Wong Kim Ark fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen. Writes The Washington Post: “In 1895\, Wong Kim Ark returned from a visit to his family’s ancestral village in Taishan\, in China’s Guangdong province\, and was barred from reentering the United States. His three-year legal battle culminated in the Supreme Court’s ruling that the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment — which protects those born on U.S. soil who are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the government — affirmed his status as an American by birth.”    This event is sponsored by Eastwind Books\, Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Asian American Research Center (UC Berkeley)\, Center for Race & Gender (UCB)\, Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA) East Bay\, Asian American & Asian Diaspora Studies (UCB)\, Cal Alumni Association\, Chinese Chapter (UCB); Center for Race\, Immigration\, Citizenship & Equality\, (UC Law SF)\, History Department (UCB).   * Please note that Michael Luo and Fae Myenne Ng will join the panel virtually online.   Panelist Bios   Michael Luo is an executive editor at The New Yorker and writes regularly for the magazine on politics\, religion\, and Asian American issues. He joined The New Yorker in 2016. Before that\, he spent thirteen years at the New York Times\, as a metro reporter\, national correspondent\, and investigative reporter and editor. He is a recipient of a George Polk Award and a Livingston Award for Young Journalists. He is the author of Strangers in the Land: Exclusion\, Belonging\, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America.   Fae Myenne Ng is the author of Orphan Bachelors\, a Memoir\, the bestseller and PEN/Faulkner Fiction finalist Bone\, and the American Book Award winner Steer Toward Rock. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the American Academy of Arts & Letters\, the Guggenheim\, the Lannan Foundation\, the NEA\, the Radcliffe Institute\, and the Rockefeller Foundation. She teaches creative writing and literature in UC Berkeley’s Department of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies.    Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark\, who fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen in 1895\, thereby affirming the 14th Amendment’s establishment of birthright citizenship for all born in the United States. Norman lives in the Bay Area\, with his wife\, Maureen and children.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://oacc.cc/event/celebrating-our-heart-filled-heritage/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th St. #290\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/20200530HeritageThumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200623T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200623T120000 DTSTAMP:20260727T012517 CREATED:20200609T190723Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200624T204256Z UID:8006-1592910000-1592913600@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Foundational Cooking Class Series: Session 1 DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 202-4 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for life stories of Chinese and Chinese Americans who endured racial violence and discrimination as second-class citizens during the 1850s to 1960s.  Ground-breaking authors Michael Luo* and Fae Myenne Ng*\, and Wong Kim Ark’s great-grandson Norman Wong\, share the stories of Chinese lives under American racial laws enacted to exclude\, deport\, and deny their due process of law.    From the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act to the 1956 Immigration and Naturalization Service’s (INS) Chinese Confession program\, the U.S. government scrutinized and separated families and communities\, conducted raids in Chinese communities\, and hunted for “illegal” paper sons. These stories echo the recent raids and terror enforced today against immigrants from Asia\, Africa\, and Latin America.   In Strangers in the Land\, Michael Luo illuminates the stories of racial violence and resistance of Chinese immigrants in the 19th century. Luo writes of early victims of anti-Asian violence\, like Gene Tong\, a Los Angeles herbalist who was dragged from his apartment and hanged by a mob during one of the worst mass lynchings in the country’s history\, and of demagogues like Denis Kearney\, a sandlot orator who became the face of the anti-Chinese movement in the late-1870s.   Fae Myenne Ng’s Orphan Bachelors is a memoir of San Francisco’s Chinatown and of a family building a life in a country bent on their exclusion. She writes\, “exclusion and confession WERE\, the two slamming doors of America … All his life\, my father raged that the Exclusion Act was a brilliant piece of legislation because it was bloodless. He’d intone\, ‘America didn’t have to kill any Chinese; her law assured none would be born.’”’   Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark. Wong Kim Ark fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen. Writes The Washington Post: “In 1895\, Wong Kim Ark returned from a visit to his family’s ancestral village in Taishan\, in China’s Guangdong province\, and was barred from reentering the United States. His three-year legal battle culminated in the Supreme Court’s ruling that the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment — which protects those born on U.S. soil who are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the government — affirmed his status as an American by birth.”    This event is sponsored by Eastwind Books\, Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Asian American Research Center (UC Berkeley)\, Center for Race & Gender (UCB)\, Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA) East Bay\, Asian American & Asian Diaspora Studies (UCB)\, Cal Alumni Association\, Chinese Chapter (UCB); Center for Race\, Immigration\, Citizenship & Equality\, (UC Law SF)\, History Department (UCB).   * Please note that Michael Luo and Fae Myenne Ng will join the panel virtually online.   Panelist Bios   Michael Luo is an executive editor at The New Yorker and writes regularly for the magazine on politics\, religion\, and Asian American issues. He joined The New Yorker in 2016. Before that\, he spent thirteen years at the New York Times\, as a metro reporter\, national correspondent\, and investigative reporter and editor. He is a recipient of a George Polk Award and a Livingston Award for Young Journalists. He is the author of Strangers in the Land: Exclusion\, Belonging\, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America.   Fae Myenne Ng is the author of Orphan Bachelors\, a Memoir\, the bestseller and PEN/Faulkner Fiction finalist Bone\, and the American Book Award winner Steer Toward Rock. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the American Academy of Arts & Letters\, the Guggenheim\, the Lannan Foundation\, the NEA\, the Radcliffe Institute\, and the Rockefeller Foundation. She teaches creative writing and literature in UC Berkeley’s Department of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies.    Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark\, who fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen in 1895\, thereby affirming the 14th Amendment’s establishment of birthright citizenship for all born in the United States. Norman lives in the Bay Area\, with his wife\, Maureen and children.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://oacc.cc/event/foundational-cooking-class-series-1/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/20200623CookingClassThumbnail-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200630T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200630T120000 DTSTAMP:20260727T012517 CREATED:20200609T191820Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200630T191051Z UID:8014-1593514800-1593518400@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Foundational Cooking Class Series: Session 2 DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 202-4 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for life stories of Chinese and Chinese Americans who endured racial violence and discrimination as second-class citizens during the 1850s to 1960s.  Ground-breaking authors Michael Luo* and Fae Myenne Ng*\, and Wong Kim Ark’s great-grandson Norman Wong\, share the stories of Chinese lives under American racial laws enacted to exclude\, deport\, and deny their due process of law.    From the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act to the 1956 Immigration and Naturalization Service’s (INS) Chinese Confession program\, the U.S. government scrutinized and separated families and communities\, conducted raids in Chinese communities\, and hunted for “illegal” paper sons. These stories echo the recent raids and terror enforced today against immigrants from Asia\, Africa\, and Latin America.   In Strangers in the Land\, Michael Luo illuminates the stories of racial violence and resistance of Chinese immigrants in the 19th century. Luo writes of early victims of anti-Asian violence\, like Gene Tong\, a Los Angeles herbalist who was dragged from his apartment and hanged by a mob during one of the worst mass lynchings in the country’s history\, and of demagogues like Denis Kearney\, a sandlot orator who became the face of the anti-Chinese movement in the late-1870s.   Fae Myenne Ng’s Orphan Bachelors is a memoir of San Francisco’s Chinatown and of a family building a life in a country bent on their exclusion. She writes\, “exclusion and confession WERE\, the two slamming doors of America … All his life\, my father raged that the Exclusion Act was a brilliant piece of legislation because it was bloodless. He’d intone\, ‘America didn’t have to kill any Chinese; her law assured none would be born.’”’   Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark. Wong Kim Ark fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen. Writes The Washington Post: “In 1895\, Wong Kim Ark returned from a visit to his family’s ancestral village in Taishan\, in China’s Guangdong province\, and was barred from reentering the United States. His three-year legal battle culminated in the Supreme Court’s ruling that the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment — which protects those born on U.S. soil who are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the government — affirmed his status as an American by birth.”    This event is sponsored by Eastwind Books\, Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Asian American Research Center (UC Berkeley)\, Center for Race & Gender (UCB)\, Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA) East Bay\, Asian American & Asian Diaspora Studies (UCB)\, Cal Alumni Association\, Chinese Chapter (UCB); Center for Race\, Immigration\, Citizenship & Equality\, (UC Law SF)\, History Department (UCB).   * Please note that Michael Luo and Fae Myenne Ng will join the panel virtually online.   Panelist Bios   Michael Luo is an executive editor at The New Yorker and writes regularly for the magazine on politics\, religion\, and Asian American issues. He joined The New Yorker in 2016. Before that\, he spent thirteen years at the New York Times\, as a metro reporter\, national correspondent\, and investigative reporter and editor. He is a recipient of a George Polk Award and a Livingston Award for Young Journalists. He is the author of Strangers in the Land: Exclusion\, Belonging\, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America.   Fae Myenne Ng is the author of Orphan Bachelors\, a Memoir\, the bestseller and PEN/Faulkner Fiction finalist Bone\, and the American Book Award winner Steer Toward Rock. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the American Academy of Arts & Letters\, the Guggenheim\, the Lannan Foundation\, the NEA\, the Radcliffe Institute\, and the Rockefeller Foundation. She teaches creative writing and literature in UC Berkeley’s Department of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies.    Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark\, who fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen in 1895\, thereby affirming the 14th Amendment’s establishment of birthright citizenship for all born in the United States. Norman lives in the Bay Area\, with his wife\, Maureen and children.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://oacc.cc/event/foundational-cooking-class-series-2/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/20200623CookingClassThumbnail-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200703 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200705 DTSTAMP:20260727T012517 CREATED:20200225T000243Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200225T002906Z UID:7661-1593734400-1593907199@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Closed for Independence Day DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 202-4 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for life stories of Chinese and Chinese Americans who endured racial violence and discrimination as second-class citizens during the 1850s to 1960s.  Ground-breaking authors Michael Luo* and Fae Myenne Ng*\, and Wong Kim Ark’s great-grandson Norman Wong\, share the stories of Chinese lives under American racial laws enacted to exclude\, deport\, and deny their due process of law.    From the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act to the 1956 Immigration and Naturalization Service’s (INS) Chinese Confession program\, the U.S. government scrutinized and separated families and communities\, conducted raids in Chinese communities\, and hunted for “illegal” paper sons. These stories echo the recent raids and terror enforced today against immigrants from Asia\, Africa\, and Latin America.   In Strangers in the Land\, Michael Luo illuminates the stories of racial violence and resistance of Chinese immigrants in the 19th century. Luo writes of early victims of anti-Asian violence\, like Gene Tong\, a Los Angeles herbalist who was dragged from his apartment and hanged by a mob during one of the worst mass lynchings in the country’s history\, and of demagogues like Denis Kearney\, a sandlot orator who became the face of the anti-Chinese movement in the late-1870s.   Fae Myenne Ng’s Orphan Bachelors is a memoir of San Francisco’s Chinatown and of a family building a life in a country bent on their exclusion. She writes\, “exclusion and confession WERE\, the two slamming doors of America … All his life\, my father raged that the Exclusion Act was a brilliant piece of legislation because it was bloodless. He’d intone\, ‘America didn’t have to kill any Chinese; her law assured none would be born.’”’   Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark. Wong Kim Ark fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen. Writes The Washington Post: “In 1895\, Wong Kim Ark returned from a visit to his family’s ancestral village in Taishan\, in China’s Guangdong province\, and was barred from reentering the United States. His three-year legal battle culminated in the Supreme Court’s ruling that the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment — which protects those born on U.S. soil who are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the government — affirmed his status as an American by birth.”    This event is sponsored by Eastwind Books\, Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Asian American Research Center (UC Berkeley)\, Center for Race & Gender (UCB)\, Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA) East Bay\, Asian American & Asian Diaspora Studies (UCB)\, Cal Alumni Association\, Chinese Chapter (UCB); Center for Race\, Immigration\, Citizenship & Equality\, (UC Law SF)\, History Department (UCB).   * Please note that Michael Luo and Fae Myenne Ng will join the panel virtually online.   Panelist Bios   Michael Luo is an executive editor at The New Yorker and writes regularly for the magazine on politics\, religion\, and Asian American issues. He joined The New Yorker in 2016. Before that\, he spent thirteen years at the New York Times\, as a metro reporter\, national correspondent\, and investigative reporter and editor. He is a recipient of a George Polk Award and a Livingston Award for Young Journalists. He is the author of Strangers in the Land: Exclusion\, Belonging\, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America.   Fae Myenne Ng is the author of Orphan Bachelors\, a Memoir\, the bestseller and PEN/Faulkner Fiction finalist Bone\, and the American Book Award winner Steer Toward Rock. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the American Academy of Arts & Letters\, the Guggenheim\, the Lannan Foundation\, the NEA\, the Radcliffe Institute\, and the Rockefeller Foundation. She teaches creative writing and literature in UC Berkeley’s Department of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies.    Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark\, who fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen in 1895\, thereby affirming the 14th Amendment’s establishment of birthright citizenship for all born in the United States. Norman lives in the Bay Area\, with his wife\, Maureen and children.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://oacc.cc/event/independence-day/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200707T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200707T170000 DTSTAMP:20260727T012517 CREATED:20200609T191928Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200708T174154Z UID:8016-1594137600-1594141200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Foundational Cooking Class Series: Session 3 DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 202-4 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for life stories of Chinese and Chinese Americans who endured racial violence and discrimination as second-class citizens during the 1850s to 1960s.  Ground-breaking authors Michael Luo* and Fae Myenne Ng*\, and Wong Kim Ark’s great-grandson Norman Wong\, share the stories of Chinese lives under American racial laws enacted to exclude\, deport\, and deny their due process of law.    From the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act to the 1956 Immigration and Naturalization Service’s (INS) Chinese Confession program\, the U.S. government scrutinized and separated families and communities\, conducted raids in Chinese communities\, and hunted for “illegal” paper sons. These stories echo the recent raids and terror enforced today against immigrants from Asia\, Africa\, and Latin America.   In Strangers in the Land\, Michael Luo illuminates the stories of racial violence and resistance of Chinese immigrants in the 19th century. Luo writes of early victims of anti-Asian violence\, like Gene Tong\, a Los Angeles herbalist who was dragged from his apartment and hanged by a mob during one of the worst mass lynchings in the country’s history\, and of demagogues like Denis Kearney\, a sandlot orator who became the face of the anti-Chinese movement in the late-1870s.   Fae Myenne Ng’s Orphan Bachelors is a memoir of San Francisco’s Chinatown and of a family building a life in a country bent on their exclusion. She writes\, “exclusion and confession WERE\, the two slamming doors of America … All his life\, my father raged that the Exclusion Act was a brilliant piece of legislation because it was bloodless. He’d intone\, ‘America didn’t have to kill any Chinese; her law assured none would be born.’”’   Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark. Wong Kim Ark fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen. Writes The Washington Post: “In 1895\, Wong Kim Ark returned from a visit to his family’s ancestral village in Taishan\, in China’s Guangdong province\, and was barred from reentering the United States. His three-year legal battle culminated in the Supreme Court’s ruling that the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment — which protects those born on U.S. soil who are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the government — affirmed his status as an American by birth.”    This event is sponsored by Eastwind Books\, Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Asian American Research Center (UC Berkeley)\, Center for Race & Gender (UCB)\, Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA) East Bay\, Asian American & Asian Diaspora Studies (UCB)\, Cal Alumni Association\, Chinese Chapter (UCB); Center for Race\, Immigration\, Citizenship & Equality\, (UC Law SF)\, History Department (UCB).   * Please note that Michael Luo and Fae Myenne Ng will join the panel virtually online.   Panelist Bios   Michael Luo is an executive editor at The New Yorker and writes regularly for the magazine on politics\, religion\, and Asian American issues. He joined The New Yorker in 2016. Before that\, he spent thirteen years at the New York Times\, as a metro reporter\, national correspondent\, and investigative reporter and editor. He is a recipient of a George Polk Award and a Livingston Award for Young Journalists. He is the author of Strangers in the Land: Exclusion\, Belonging\, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America.   Fae Myenne Ng is the author of Orphan Bachelors\, a Memoir\, the bestseller and PEN/Faulkner Fiction finalist Bone\, and the American Book Award winner Steer Toward Rock. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the American Academy of Arts & Letters\, the Guggenheim\, the Lannan Foundation\, the NEA\, the Radcliffe Institute\, and the Rockefeller Foundation. She teaches creative writing and literature in UC Berkeley’s Department of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies.    Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark\, who fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen in 1895\, thereby affirming the 14th Amendment’s establishment of birthright citizenship for all born in the United States. Norman lives in the Bay Area\, with his wife\, Maureen and children.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://oacc.cc/event/foundational-cooking-class-series-3/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/20200623CookingClassThumbnail-2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200711T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200711T150000 DTSTAMP:20260727T012517 CREATED:20200615T212228Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200715T183928Z UID:8029-1594472400-1594479600@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Healing Around Race: Creative Writing Workshop #1 DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 202-4 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for life stories of Chinese and Chinese Americans who endured racial violence and discrimination as second-class citizens during the 1850s to 1960s.  Ground-breaking authors Michael Luo* and Fae Myenne Ng*\, and Wong Kim Ark’s great-grandson Norman Wong\, share the stories of Chinese lives under American racial laws enacted to exclude\, deport\, and deny their due process of law.    From the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act to the 1956 Immigration and Naturalization Service’s (INS) Chinese Confession program\, the U.S. government scrutinized and separated families and communities\, conducted raids in Chinese communities\, and hunted for “illegal” paper sons. These stories echo the recent raids and terror enforced today against immigrants from Asia\, Africa\, and Latin America.   In Strangers in the Land\, Michael Luo illuminates the stories of racial violence and resistance of Chinese immigrants in the 19th century. Luo writes of early victims of anti-Asian violence\, like Gene Tong\, a Los Angeles herbalist who was dragged from his apartment and hanged by a mob during one of the worst mass lynchings in the country’s history\, and of demagogues like Denis Kearney\, a sandlot orator who became the face of the anti-Chinese movement in the late-1870s.   Fae Myenne Ng’s Orphan Bachelors is a memoir of San Francisco’s Chinatown and of a family building a life in a country bent on their exclusion. She writes\, “exclusion and confession WERE\, the two slamming doors of America … All his life\, my father raged that the Exclusion Act was a brilliant piece of legislation because it was bloodless. He’d intone\, ‘America didn’t have to kill any Chinese; her law assured none would be born.’”’   Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark. Wong Kim Ark fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen. Writes The Washington Post: “In 1895\, Wong Kim Ark returned from a visit to his family’s ancestral village in Taishan\, in China’s Guangdong province\, and was barred from reentering the United States. His three-year legal battle culminated in the Supreme Court’s ruling that the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment — which protects those born on U.S. soil who are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the government — affirmed his status as an American by birth.”    This event is sponsored by Eastwind Books\, Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Asian American Research Center (UC Berkeley)\, Center for Race & Gender (UCB)\, Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA) East Bay\, Asian American & Asian Diaspora Studies (UCB)\, Cal Alumni Association\, Chinese Chapter (UCB); Center for Race\, Immigration\, Citizenship & Equality\, (UC Law SF)\, History Department (UCB).   * Please note that Michael Luo and Fae Myenne Ng will join the panel virtually online.   Panelist Bios   Michael Luo is an executive editor at The New Yorker and writes regularly for the magazine on politics\, religion\, and Asian American issues. He joined The New Yorker in 2016. Before that\, he spent thirteen years at the New York Times\, as a metro reporter\, national correspondent\, and investigative reporter and editor. He is a recipient of a George Polk Award and a Livingston Award for Young Journalists. He is the author of Strangers in the Land: Exclusion\, Belonging\, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America.   Fae Myenne Ng is the author of Orphan Bachelors\, a Memoir\, the bestseller and PEN/Faulkner Fiction finalist Bone\, and the American Book Award winner Steer Toward Rock. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the American Academy of Arts & Letters\, the Guggenheim\, the Lannan Foundation\, the NEA\, the Radcliffe Institute\, and the Rockefeller Foundation. She teaches creative writing and literature in UC Berkeley’s Department of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies.    Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark\, who fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen in 1895\, thereby affirming the 14th Amendment’s establishment of birthright citizenship for all born in the United States. Norman lives in the Bay Area\, with his wife\, Maureen and children.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://oacc.cc/event/healing-around-race-workshop-1/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/20200711CreativeWritingThumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200714T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200714T120000 DTSTAMP:20260727T012517 CREATED:20200609T192022Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200715T002306Z UID:8018-1594724400-1594728000@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Foundational Cooking Class Series: Session 4 DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 202-4 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for life stories of Chinese and Chinese Americans who endured racial violence and discrimination as second-class citizens during the 1850s to 1960s.  Ground-breaking authors Michael Luo* and Fae Myenne Ng*\, and Wong Kim Ark’s great-grandson Norman Wong\, share the stories of Chinese lives under American racial laws enacted to exclude\, deport\, and deny their due process of law.    From the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act to the 1956 Immigration and Naturalization Service’s (INS) Chinese Confession program\, the U.S. government scrutinized and separated families and communities\, conducted raids in Chinese communities\, and hunted for “illegal” paper sons. These stories echo the recent raids and terror enforced today against immigrants from Asia\, Africa\, and Latin America.   In Strangers in the Land\, Michael Luo illuminates the stories of racial violence and resistance of Chinese immigrants in the 19th century. Luo writes of early victims of anti-Asian violence\, like Gene Tong\, a Los Angeles herbalist who was dragged from his apartment and hanged by a mob during one of the worst mass lynchings in the country’s history\, and of demagogues like Denis Kearney\, a sandlot orator who became the face of the anti-Chinese movement in the late-1870s.   Fae Myenne Ng’s Orphan Bachelors is a memoir of San Francisco’s Chinatown and of a family building a life in a country bent on their exclusion. She writes\, “exclusion and confession WERE\, the two slamming doors of America … All his life\, my father raged that the Exclusion Act was a brilliant piece of legislation because it was bloodless. He’d intone\, ‘America didn’t have to kill any Chinese; her law assured none would be born.’”’   Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark. Wong Kim Ark fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen. Writes The Washington Post: “In 1895\, Wong Kim Ark returned from a visit to his family’s ancestral village in Taishan\, in China’s Guangdong province\, and was barred from reentering the United States. His three-year legal battle culminated in the Supreme Court’s ruling that the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment — which protects those born on U.S. soil who are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the government — affirmed his status as an American by birth.”    This event is sponsored by Eastwind Books\, Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Asian American Research Center (UC Berkeley)\, Center for Race & Gender (UCB)\, Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA) East Bay\, Asian American & Asian Diaspora Studies (UCB)\, Cal Alumni Association\, Chinese Chapter (UCB); Center for Race\, Immigration\, Citizenship & Equality\, (UC Law SF)\, History Department (UCB).   * Please note that Michael Luo and Fae Myenne Ng will join the panel virtually online.   Panelist Bios   Michael Luo is an executive editor at The New Yorker and writes regularly for the magazine on politics\, religion\, and Asian American issues. He joined The New Yorker in 2016. Before that\, he spent thirteen years at the New York Times\, as a metro reporter\, national correspondent\, and investigative reporter and editor. He is a recipient of a George Polk Award and a Livingston Award for Young Journalists. He is the author of Strangers in the Land: Exclusion\, Belonging\, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America.   Fae Myenne Ng is the author of Orphan Bachelors\, a Memoir\, the bestseller and PEN/Faulkner Fiction finalist Bone\, and the American Book Award winner Steer Toward Rock. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the American Academy of Arts & Letters\, the Guggenheim\, the Lannan Foundation\, the NEA\, the Radcliffe Institute\, and the Rockefeller Foundation. She teaches creative writing and literature in UC Berkeley’s Department of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies.    Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark\, who fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen in 1895\, thereby affirming the 14th Amendment’s establishment of birthright citizenship for all born in the United States. Norman lives in the Bay Area\, with his wife\, Maureen and children.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://oacc.cc/event/foundational-cooking-class-series-4/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/20200623CookingClassThumbnail-2.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200715T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241231T120000 DTSTAMP:20260727T012517 CREATED:20230720T075150Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250510T202247Z UID:14537-1594814400-1735646400@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Open E.A.R.S. for Change DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 202-4 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for life stories of Chinese and Chinese Americans who endured racial violence and discrimination as second-class citizens during the 1850s to 1960s.  Ground-breaking authors Michael Luo* and Fae Myenne Ng*\, and Wong Kim Ark’s great-grandson Norman Wong\, share the stories of Chinese lives under American racial laws enacted to exclude\, deport\, and deny their due process of law.    From the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act to the 1956 Immigration and Naturalization Service’s (INS) Chinese Confession program\, the U.S. government scrutinized and separated families and communities\, conducted raids in Chinese communities\, and hunted for “illegal” paper sons. These stories echo the recent raids and terror enforced today against immigrants from Asia\, Africa\, and Latin America.   In Strangers in the Land\, Michael Luo illuminates the stories of racial violence and resistance of Chinese immigrants in the 19th century. Luo writes of early victims of anti-Asian violence\, like Gene Tong\, a Los Angeles herbalist who was dragged from his apartment and hanged by a mob during one of the worst mass lynchings in the country’s history\, and of demagogues like Denis Kearney\, a sandlot orator who became the face of the anti-Chinese movement in the late-1870s.   Fae Myenne Ng’s Orphan Bachelors is a memoir of San Francisco’s Chinatown and of a family building a life in a country bent on their exclusion. She writes\, “exclusion and confession WERE\, the two slamming doors of America … All his life\, my father raged that the Exclusion Act was a brilliant piece of legislation because it was bloodless. He’d intone\, ‘America didn’t have to kill any Chinese; her law assured none would be born.’”’   Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark. Wong Kim Ark fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen. Writes The Washington Post: “In 1895\, Wong Kim Ark returned from a visit to his family’s ancestral village in Taishan\, in China’s Guangdong province\, and was barred from reentering the United States. His three-year legal battle culminated in the Supreme Court’s ruling that the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment — which protects those born on U.S. soil who are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the government — affirmed his status as an American by birth.”    This event is sponsored by Eastwind Books\, Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Asian American Research Center (UC Berkeley)\, Center for Race & Gender (UCB)\, Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA) East Bay\, Asian American & Asian Diaspora Studies (UCB)\, Cal Alumni Association\, Chinese Chapter (UCB); Center for Race\, Immigration\, Citizenship & Equality\, (UC Law SF)\, History Department (UCB).   * Please note that Michael Luo and Fae Myenne Ng will join the panel virtually online.   Panelist Bios   Michael Luo is an executive editor at The New Yorker and writes regularly for the magazine on politics\, religion\, and Asian American issues. He joined The New Yorker in 2016. Before that\, he spent thirteen years at the New York Times\, as a metro reporter\, national correspondent\, and investigative reporter and editor. He is a recipient of a George Polk Award and a Livingston Award for Young Journalists. He is the author of Strangers in the Land: Exclusion\, Belonging\, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America.   Fae Myenne Ng is the author of Orphan Bachelors\, a Memoir\, the bestseller and PEN/Faulkner Fiction finalist Bone\, and the American Book Award winner Steer Toward Rock. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the American Academy of Arts & Letters\, the Guggenheim\, the Lannan Foundation\, the NEA\, the Radcliffe Institute\, and the Rockefeller Foundation. She teaches creative writing and literature in UC Berkeley’s Department of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies.    Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark\, who fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen in 1895\, thereby affirming the 14th Amendment’s establishment of birthright citizenship for all born in the United States. Norman lives in the Bay Area\, with his wife\, Maureen and children.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://oacc.cc/event/open-ears-for-change/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Ongoing Programs ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Screenshot-2023-07-05-at-6.10-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200725T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200725T150000 DTSTAMP:20260727T012517 CREATED:20200615T212353Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211007T181118Z UID:8033-1595682000-1595689200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Healing Around Race: Creative Writing Workshop #2 DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 202-4 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for life stories of Chinese and Chinese Americans who endured racial violence and discrimination as second-class citizens during the 1850s to 1960s.  Ground-breaking authors Michael Luo* and Fae Myenne Ng*\, and Wong Kim Ark’s great-grandson Norman Wong\, share the stories of Chinese lives under American racial laws enacted to exclude\, deport\, and deny their due process of law.    From the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act to the 1956 Immigration and Naturalization Service’s (INS) Chinese Confession program\, the U.S. government scrutinized and separated families and communities\, conducted raids in Chinese communities\, and hunted for “illegal” paper sons. These stories echo the recent raids and terror enforced today against immigrants from Asia\, Africa\, and Latin America.   In Strangers in the Land\, Michael Luo illuminates the stories of racial violence and resistance of Chinese immigrants in the 19th century. Luo writes of early victims of anti-Asian violence\, like Gene Tong\, a Los Angeles herbalist who was dragged from his apartment and hanged by a mob during one of the worst mass lynchings in the country’s history\, and of demagogues like Denis Kearney\, a sandlot orator who became the face of the anti-Chinese movement in the late-1870s.   Fae Myenne Ng’s Orphan Bachelors is a memoir of San Francisco’s Chinatown and of a family building a life in a country bent on their exclusion. She writes\, “exclusion and confession WERE\, the two slamming doors of America … All his life\, my father raged that the Exclusion Act was a brilliant piece of legislation because it was bloodless. He’d intone\, ‘America didn’t have to kill any Chinese; her law assured none would be born.’”’   Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark. Wong Kim Ark fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen. Writes The Washington Post: “In 1895\, Wong Kim Ark returned from a visit to his family’s ancestral village in Taishan\, in China’s Guangdong province\, and was barred from reentering the United States. His three-year legal battle culminated in the Supreme Court’s ruling that the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment — which protects those born on U.S. soil who are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the government — affirmed his status as an American by birth.”    This event is sponsored by Eastwind Books\, Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Asian American Research Center (UC Berkeley)\, Center for Race & Gender (UCB)\, Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA) East Bay\, Asian American & Asian Diaspora Studies (UCB)\, Cal Alumni Association\, Chinese Chapter (UCB); Center for Race\, Immigration\, Citizenship & Equality\, (UC Law SF)\, History Department (UCB).   * Please note that Michael Luo and Fae Myenne Ng will join the panel virtually online.   Panelist Bios   Michael Luo is an executive editor at The New Yorker and writes regularly for the magazine on politics\, religion\, and Asian American issues. He joined The New Yorker in 2016. Before that\, he spent thirteen years at the New York Times\, as a metro reporter\, national correspondent\, and investigative reporter and editor. He is a recipient of a George Polk Award and a Livingston Award for Young Journalists. He is the author of Strangers in the Land: Exclusion\, Belonging\, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America.   Fae Myenne Ng is the author of Orphan Bachelors\, a Memoir\, the bestseller and PEN/Faulkner Fiction finalist Bone\, and the American Book Award winner Steer Toward Rock. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the American Academy of Arts & Letters\, the Guggenheim\, the Lannan Foundation\, the NEA\, the Radcliffe Institute\, and the Rockefeller Foundation. She teaches creative writing and literature in UC Berkeley’s Department of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies.    Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark\, who fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen in 1895\, thereby affirming the 14th Amendment’s establishment of birthright citizenship for all born in the United States. Norman lives in the Bay Area\, with his wife\, Maureen and children.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://oacc.cc/event/healing-around-race-workshop-2/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/20200711CreativeWritingThumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200808 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201005 DTSTAMP:20260727T012517 CREATED:20200605T171347Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201103T214657Z UID:7989-1596844800-1601855999@oacc.cc SUMMARY:San Francisco Beginnings of Korean Immigration (1902-1920) DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 202-4 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for life stories of Chinese and Chinese Americans who endured racial violence and discrimination as second-class citizens during the 1850s to 1960s.  Ground-breaking authors Michael Luo* and Fae Myenne Ng*\, and Wong Kim Ark’s great-grandson Norman Wong\, share the stories of Chinese lives under American racial laws enacted to exclude\, deport\, and deny their due process of law.    From the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act to the 1956 Immigration and Naturalization Service’s (INS) Chinese Confession program\, the U.S. government scrutinized and separated families and communities\, conducted raids in Chinese communities\, and hunted for “illegal” paper sons. These stories echo the recent raids and terror enforced today against immigrants from Asia\, Africa\, and Latin America.   In Strangers in the Land\, Michael Luo illuminates the stories of racial violence and resistance of Chinese immigrants in the 19th century. Luo writes of early victims of anti-Asian violence\, like Gene Tong\, a Los Angeles herbalist who was dragged from his apartment and hanged by a mob during one of the worst mass lynchings in the country’s history\, and of demagogues like Denis Kearney\, a sandlot orator who became the face of the anti-Chinese movement in the late-1870s.   Fae Myenne Ng’s Orphan Bachelors is a memoir of San Francisco’s Chinatown and of a family building a life in a country bent on their exclusion. She writes\, “exclusion and confession WERE\, the two slamming doors of America … All his life\, my father raged that the Exclusion Act was a brilliant piece of legislation because it was bloodless. He’d intone\, ‘America didn’t have to kill any Chinese; her law assured none would be born.’”’   Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark. Wong Kim Ark fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen. Writes The Washington Post: “In 1895\, Wong Kim Ark returned from a visit to his family’s ancestral village in Taishan\, in China’s Guangdong province\, and was barred from reentering the United States. His three-year legal battle culminated in the Supreme Court’s ruling that the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment — which protects those born on U.S. soil who are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the government — affirmed his status as an American by birth.”    This event is sponsored by Eastwind Books\, Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Asian American Research Center (UC Berkeley)\, Center for Race & Gender (UCB)\, Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA) East Bay\, Asian American & Asian Diaspora Studies (UCB)\, Cal Alumni Association\, Chinese Chapter (UCB); Center for Race\, Immigration\, Citizenship & Equality\, (UC Law SF)\, History Department (UCB).   * Please note that Michael Luo and Fae Myenne Ng will join the panel virtually online.   Panelist Bios   Michael Luo is an executive editor at The New Yorker and writes regularly for the magazine on politics\, religion\, and Asian American issues. He joined The New Yorker in 2016. Before that\, he spent thirteen years at the New York Times\, as a metro reporter\, national correspondent\, and investigative reporter and editor. He is a recipient of a George Polk Award and a Livingston Award for Young Journalists. He is the author of Strangers in the Land: Exclusion\, Belonging\, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America.   Fae Myenne Ng is the author of Orphan Bachelors\, a Memoir\, the bestseller and PEN/Faulkner Fiction finalist Bone\, and the American Book Award winner Steer Toward Rock. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the American Academy of Arts & Letters\, the Guggenheim\, the Lannan Foundation\, the NEA\, the Radcliffe Institute\, and the Rockefeller Foundation. She teaches creative writing and literature in UC Berkeley’s Department of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies.    Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark\, who fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen in 1895\, thereby affirming the 14th Amendment’s establishment of birthright citizenship for all born in the United States. Norman lives in the Bay Area\, with his wife\, Maureen and children.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://oacc.cc/event/san-francisco-beginnings-of-korean-immigration-1902-1920/ LOCATION:Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, 388 9th Street\, Suite 290\, Oakland\, CA 94607\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607 CATEGORIES:Past Exhibitions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/20200808SFBeginningsThumbnail-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200829T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200829T150000 DTSTAMP:20260727T012517 CREATED:20200617T001659Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200908T185823Z UID:7753-1598709600-1598713200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Love Me As I Am: How to Have an Inter-generational Conversation on Beauty Standards and Self-Worth DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 202-4 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for life stories of Chinese and Chinese Americans who endured racial violence and discrimination as second-class citizens during the 1850s to 1960s.  Ground-breaking authors Michael Luo* and Fae Myenne Ng*\, and Wong Kim Ark’s great-grandson Norman Wong\, share the stories of Chinese lives under American racial laws enacted to exclude\, deport\, and deny their due process of law.    From the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act to the 1956 Immigration and Naturalization Service’s (INS) Chinese Confession program\, the U.S. government scrutinized and separated families and communities\, conducted raids in Chinese communities\, and hunted for “illegal” paper sons. These stories echo the recent raids and terror enforced today against immigrants from Asia\, Africa\, and Latin America.   In Strangers in the Land\, Michael Luo illuminates the stories of racial violence and resistance of Chinese immigrants in the 19th century. Luo writes of early victims of anti-Asian violence\, like Gene Tong\, a Los Angeles herbalist who was dragged from his apartment and hanged by a mob during one of the worst mass lynchings in the country’s history\, and of demagogues like Denis Kearney\, a sandlot orator who became the face of the anti-Chinese movement in the late-1870s.   Fae Myenne Ng’s Orphan Bachelors is a memoir of San Francisco’s Chinatown and of a family building a life in a country bent on their exclusion. She writes\, “exclusion and confession WERE\, the two slamming doors of America … All his life\, my father raged that the Exclusion Act was a brilliant piece of legislation because it was bloodless. He’d intone\, ‘America didn’t have to kill any Chinese; her law assured none would be born.’”’   Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark. Wong Kim Ark fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen. Writes The Washington Post: “In 1895\, Wong Kim Ark returned from a visit to his family’s ancestral village in Taishan\, in China’s Guangdong province\, and was barred from reentering the United States. His three-year legal battle culminated in the Supreme Court’s ruling that the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment — which protects those born on U.S. soil who are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the government — affirmed his status as an American by birth.”    This event is sponsored by Eastwind Books\, Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Asian American Research Center (UC Berkeley)\, Center for Race & Gender (UCB)\, Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA) East Bay\, Asian American & Asian Diaspora Studies (UCB)\, Cal Alumni Association\, Chinese Chapter (UCB); Center for Race\, Immigration\, Citizenship & Equality\, (UC Law SF)\, History Department (UCB).   * Please note that Michael Luo and Fae Myenne Ng will join the panel virtually online.   Panelist Bios   Michael Luo is an executive editor at The New Yorker and writes regularly for the magazine on politics\, religion\, and Asian American issues. He joined The New Yorker in 2016. Before that\, he spent thirteen years at the New York Times\, as a metro reporter\, national correspondent\, and investigative reporter and editor. He is a recipient of a George Polk Award and a Livingston Award for Young Journalists. He is the author of Strangers in the Land: Exclusion\, Belonging\, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America.   Fae Myenne Ng is the author of Orphan Bachelors\, a Memoir\, the bestseller and PEN/Faulkner Fiction finalist Bone\, and the American Book Award winner Steer Toward Rock. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the American Academy of Arts & Letters\, the Guggenheim\, the Lannan Foundation\, the NEA\, the Radcliffe Institute\, and the Rockefeller Foundation. She teaches creative writing and literature in UC Berkeley’s Department of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies.    Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark\, who fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen in 1895\, thereby affirming the 14th Amendment’s establishment of birthright citizenship for all born in the United States. Norman lives in the Bay Area\, with his wife\, Maureen and children.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://oacc.cc/event/convo-between-generations/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/LOVE-ME-AS-I-AM_-1.png ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200907 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200908 DTSTAMP:20260727T012517 CREATED:20200225T000327Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200225T002843Z UID:7663-1599436800-1599523199@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Closed for Labor Day DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 202-4 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for life stories of Chinese and Chinese Americans who endured racial violence and discrimination as second-class citizens during the 1850s to 1960s.  Ground-breaking authors Michael Luo* and Fae Myenne Ng*\, and Wong Kim Ark’s great-grandson Norman Wong\, share the stories of Chinese lives under American racial laws enacted to exclude\, deport\, and deny their due process of law.    From the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act to the 1956 Immigration and Naturalization Service’s (INS) Chinese Confession program\, the U.S. government scrutinized and separated families and communities\, conducted raids in Chinese communities\, and hunted for “illegal” paper sons. These stories echo the recent raids and terror enforced today against immigrants from Asia\, Africa\, and Latin America.   In Strangers in the Land\, Michael Luo illuminates the stories of racial violence and resistance of Chinese immigrants in the 19th century. Luo writes of early victims of anti-Asian violence\, like Gene Tong\, a Los Angeles herbalist who was dragged from his apartment and hanged by a mob during one of the worst mass lynchings in the country’s history\, and of demagogues like Denis Kearney\, a sandlot orator who became the face of the anti-Chinese movement in the late-1870s.   Fae Myenne Ng’s Orphan Bachelors is a memoir of San Francisco’s Chinatown and of a family building a life in a country bent on their exclusion. She writes\, “exclusion and confession WERE\, the two slamming doors of America … All his life\, my father raged that the Exclusion Act was a brilliant piece of legislation because it was bloodless. He’d intone\, ‘America didn’t have to kill any Chinese; her law assured none would be born.’”’   Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark. Wong Kim Ark fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen. Writes The Washington Post: “In 1895\, Wong Kim Ark returned from a visit to his family’s ancestral village in Taishan\, in China’s Guangdong province\, and was barred from reentering the United States. His three-year legal battle culminated in the Supreme Court’s ruling that the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment — which protects those born on U.S. soil who are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the government — affirmed his status as an American by birth.”    This event is sponsored by Eastwind Books\, Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Asian American Research Center (UC Berkeley)\, Center for Race & Gender (UCB)\, Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA) East Bay\, Asian American & Asian Diaspora Studies (UCB)\, Cal Alumni Association\, Chinese Chapter (UCB); Center for Race\, Immigration\, Citizenship & Equality\, (UC Law SF)\, History Department (UCB).   * Please note that Michael Luo and Fae Myenne Ng will join the panel virtually online.   Panelist Bios   Michael Luo is an executive editor at The New Yorker and writes regularly for the magazine on politics\, religion\, and Asian American issues. He joined The New Yorker in 2016. Before that\, he spent thirteen years at the New York Times\, as a metro reporter\, national correspondent\, and investigative reporter and editor. He is a recipient of a George Polk Award and a Livingston Award for Young Journalists. He is the author of Strangers in the Land: Exclusion\, Belonging\, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America.   Fae Myenne Ng is the author of Orphan Bachelors\, a Memoir\, the bestseller and PEN/Faulkner Fiction finalist Bone\, and the American Book Award winner Steer Toward Rock. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the American Academy of Arts & Letters\, the Guggenheim\, the Lannan Foundation\, the NEA\, the Radcliffe Institute\, and the Rockefeller Foundation. She teaches creative writing and literature in UC Berkeley’s Department of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies.    Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark\, who fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen in 1895\, thereby affirming the 14th Amendment’s establishment of birthright citizenship for all born in the United States. Norman lives in the Bay Area\, with his wife\, Maureen and children.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://oacc.cc/event/labor-day/ LOCATION:CA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200925T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200925T190000 DTSTAMP:20260727T012517 CREATED:20200717T182601Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201001T180006Z UID:8610-1601053200-1601060400@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Quarantini Mixer: Spritz\, Mix\, & Drink From Home with Viridian and OACC DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 202-4 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for life stories of Chinese and Chinese Americans who endured racial violence and discrimination as second-class citizens during the 1850s to 1960s.  Ground-breaking authors Michael Luo* and Fae Myenne Ng*\, and Wong Kim Ark’s great-grandson Norman Wong\, share the stories of Chinese lives under American racial laws enacted to exclude\, deport\, and deny their due process of law.    From the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act to the 1956 Immigration and Naturalization Service’s (INS) Chinese Confession program\, the U.S. government scrutinized and separated families and communities\, conducted raids in Chinese communities\, and hunted for “illegal” paper sons. These stories echo the recent raids and terror enforced today against immigrants from Asia\, Africa\, and Latin America.   In Strangers in the Land\, Michael Luo illuminates the stories of racial violence and resistance of Chinese immigrants in the 19th century. Luo writes of early victims of anti-Asian violence\, like Gene Tong\, a Los Angeles herbalist who was dragged from his apartment and hanged by a mob during one of the worst mass lynchings in the country’s history\, and of demagogues like Denis Kearney\, a sandlot orator who became the face of the anti-Chinese movement in the late-1870s.   Fae Myenne Ng’s Orphan Bachelors is a memoir of San Francisco’s Chinatown and of a family building a life in a country bent on their exclusion. She writes\, “exclusion and confession WERE\, the two slamming doors of America … All his life\, my father raged that the Exclusion Act was a brilliant piece of legislation because it was bloodless. He’d intone\, ‘America didn’t have to kill any Chinese; her law assured none would be born.’”’   Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark. Wong Kim Ark fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen. Writes The Washington Post: “In 1895\, Wong Kim Ark returned from a visit to his family’s ancestral village in Taishan\, in China’s Guangdong province\, and was barred from reentering the United States. His three-year legal battle culminated in the Supreme Court’s ruling that the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment — which protects those born on U.S. soil who are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the government — affirmed his status as an American by birth.”    This event is sponsored by Eastwind Books\, Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Asian American Research Center (UC Berkeley)\, Center for Race & Gender (UCB)\, Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA) East Bay\, Asian American & Asian Diaspora Studies (UCB)\, Cal Alumni Association\, Chinese Chapter (UCB); Center for Race\, Immigration\, Citizenship & Equality\, (UC Law SF)\, History Department (UCB).   * Please note that Michael Luo and Fae Myenne Ng will join the panel virtually online.   Panelist Bios   Michael Luo is an executive editor at The New Yorker and writes regularly for the magazine on politics\, religion\, and Asian American issues. He joined The New Yorker in 2016. Before that\, he spent thirteen years at the New York Times\, as a metro reporter\, national correspondent\, and investigative reporter and editor. He is a recipient of a George Polk Award and a Livingston Award for Young Journalists. He is the author of Strangers in the Land: Exclusion\, Belonging\, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America.   Fae Myenne Ng is the author of Orphan Bachelors\, a Memoir\, the bestseller and PEN/Faulkner Fiction finalist Bone\, and the American Book Award winner Steer Toward Rock. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the American Academy of Arts & Letters\, the Guggenheim\, the Lannan Foundation\, the NEA\, the Radcliffe Institute\, and the Rockefeller Foundation. She teaches creative writing and literature in UC Berkeley’s Department of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies.    Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark\, who fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen in 1895\, thereby affirming the 14th Amendment’s establishment of birthright citizenship for all born in the United States. Norman lives in the Bay Area\, with his wife\, Maureen and children.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://oacc.cc/event/quarantini-mixer/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cocktail_thumb_02-2.png ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200930 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210101 DTSTAMP:20260727T012517 CREATED:20200813T191011Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211008T184130Z UID:8575-1601424000-1609459199@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Virtual Chuseok Festival Youth Art Contest DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 202-4 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for life stories of Chinese and Chinese Americans who endured racial violence and discrimination as second-class citizens during the 1850s to 1960s.  Ground-breaking authors Michael Luo* and Fae Myenne Ng*\, and Wong Kim Ark’s great-grandson Norman Wong\, share the stories of Chinese lives under American racial laws enacted to exclude\, deport\, and deny their due process of law.    From the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act to the 1956 Immigration and Naturalization Service’s (INS) Chinese Confession program\, the U.S. government scrutinized and separated families and communities\, conducted raids in Chinese communities\, and hunted for “illegal” paper sons. These stories echo the recent raids and terror enforced today against immigrants from Asia\, Africa\, and Latin America.   In Strangers in the Land\, Michael Luo illuminates the stories of racial violence and resistance of Chinese immigrants in the 19th century. Luo writes of early victims of anti-Asian violence\, like Gene Tong\, a Los Angeles herbalist who was dragged from his apartment and hanged by a mob during one of the worst mass lynchings in the country’s history\, and of demagogues like Denis Kearney\, a sandlot orator who became the face of the anti-Chinese movement in the late-1870s.   Fae Myenne Ng’s Orphan Bachelors is a memoir of San Francisco’s Chinatown and of a family building a life in a country bent on their exclusion. She writes\, “exclusion and confession WERE\, the two slamming doors of America … All his life\, my father raged that the Exclusion Act was a brilliant piece of legislation because it was bloodless. He’d intone\, ‘America didn’t have to kill any Chinese; her law assured none would be born.’”’   Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark. Wong Kim Ark fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen. Writes The Washington Post: “In 1895\, Wong Kim Ark returned from a visit to his family’s ancestral village in Taishan\, in China’s Guangdong province\, and was barred from reentering the United States. His three-year legal battle culminated in the Supreme Court’s ruling that the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment — which protects those born on U.S. soil who are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the government — affirmed his status as an American by birth.”    This event is sponsored by Eastwind Books\, Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Asian American Research Center (UC Berkeley)\, Center for Race & Gender (UCB)\, Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA) East Bay\, Asian American & Asian Diaspora Studies (UCB)\, Cal Alumni Association\, Chinese Chapter (UCB); Center for Race\, Immigration\, Citizenship & Equality\, (UC Law SF)\, History Department (UCB).   * Please note that Michael Luo and Fae Myenne Ng will join the panel virtually online.   Panelist Bios   Michael Luo is an executive editor at The New Yorker and writes regularly for the magazine on politics\, religion\, and Asian American issues. He joined The New Yorker in 2016. Before that\, he spent thirteen years at the New York Times\, as a metro reporter\, national correspondent\, and investigative reporter and editor. He is a recipient of a George Polk Award and a Livingston Award for Young Journalists. He is the author of Strangers in the Land: Exclusion\, Belonging\, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America.   Fae Myenne Ng is the author of Orphan Bachelors\, a Memoir\, the bestseller and PEN/Faulkner Fiction finalist Bone\, and the American Book Award winner Steer Toward Rock. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the American Academy of Arts & Letters\, the Guggenheim\, the Lannan Foundation\, the NEA\, the Radcliffe Institute\, and the Rockefeller Foundation. She teaches creative writing and literature in UC Berkeley’s Department of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies.    Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark\, who fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen in 1895\, thereby affirming the 14th Amendment’s establishment of birthright citizenship for all born in the United States. Norman lives in the Bay Area\, with his wife\, Maureen and children.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://oacc.cc/event/virtual-chuseok-festival-youth-art-contest/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Exhibitions ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Art-Contest_thumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Korean Center%2C Inc.":MAILTO:info@koreancentersf.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201012T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201012T193000 DTSTAMP:20260727T012517 CREATED:20200923T225708Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201019T184228Z UID:8701-1602525600-1602531000@oacc.cc SUMMARY:"In the Land of My Ancestors" Film & Conversation DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 202-4 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for life stories of Chinese and Chinese Americans who endured racial violence and discrimination as second-class citizens during the 1850s to 1960s.  Ground-breaking authors Michael Luo* and Fae Myenne Ng*\, and Wong Kim Ark’s great-grandson Norman Wong\, share the stories of Chinese lives under American racial laws enacted to exclude\, deport\, and deny their due process of law.    From the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act to the 1956 Immigration and Naturalization Service’s (INS) Chinese Confession program\, the U.S. government scrutinized and separated families and communities\, conducted raids in Chinese communities\, and hunted for “illegal” paper sons. These stories echo the recent raids and terror enforced today against immigrants from Asia\, Africa\, and Latin America.   In Strangers in the Land\, Michael Luo illuminates the stories of racial violence and resistance of Chinese immigrants in the 19th century. Luo writes of early victims of anti-Asian violence\, like Gene Tong\, a Los Angeles herbalist who was dragged from his apartment and hanged by a mob during one of the worst mass lynchings in the country’s history\, and of demagogues like Denis Kearney\, a sandlot orator who became the face of the anti-Chinese movement in the late-1870s.   Fae Myenne Ng’s Orphan Bachelors is a memoir of San Francisco’s Chinatown and of a family building a life in a country bent on their exclusion. She writes\, “exclusion and confession WERE\, the two slamming doors of America … All his life\, my father raged that the Exclusion Act was a brilliant piece of legislation because it was bloodless. He’d intone\, ‘America didn’t have to kill any Chinese; her law assured none would be born.’”’   Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark. Wong Kim Ark fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen. Writes The Washington Post: “In 1895\, Wong Kim Ark returned from a visit to his family’s ancestral village in Taishan\, in China’s Guangdong province\, and was barred from reentering the United States. His three-year legal battle culminated in the Supreme Court’s ruling that the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment — which protects those born on U.S. soil who are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the government — affirmed his status as an American by birth.”    This event is sponsored by Eastwind Books\, Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Asian American Research Center (UC Berkeley)\, Center for Race & Gender (UCB)\, Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA) East Bay\, Asian American & Asian Diaspora Studies (UCB)\, Cal Alumni Association\, Chinese Chapter (UCB); Center for Race\, Immigration\, Citizenship & Equality\, (UC Law SF)\, History Department (UCB).   * Please note that Michael Luo and Fae Myenne Ng will join the panel virtually online.   Panelist Bios   Michael Luo is an executive editor at The New Yorker and writes regularly for the magazine on politics\, religion\, and Asian American issues. He joined The New Yorker in 2016. Before that\, he spent thirteen years at the New York Times\, as a metro reporter\, national correspondent\, and investigative reporter and editor. He is a recipient of a George Polk Award and a Livingston Award for Young Journalists. He is the author of Strangers in the Land: Exclusion\, Belonging\, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America.   Fae Myenne Ng is the author of Orphan Bachelors\, a Memoir\, the bestseller and PEN/Faulkner Fiction finalist Bone\, and the American Book Award winner Steer Toward Rock. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the American Academy of Arts & Letters\, the Guggenheim\, the Lannan Foundation\, the NEA\, the Radcliffe Institute\, and the Rockefeller Foundation. She teaches creative writing and literature in UC Berkeley’s Department of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies.    Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark\, who fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen in 1895\, thereby affirming the 14th Amendment’s establishment of birthright citizenship for all born in the United States. Norman lives in the Bay Area\, with his wife\, Maureen and children.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://oacc.cc/event/in-the-land-of-my-ancestors/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/20201012LandofAncestorsThumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201016T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201016T190000 DTSTAMP:20260727T012518 CREATED:20200923T200143Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201024T173258Z UID:8683-1602871200-1602874800@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Banchan Cooking Workshop 1 DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 202-4 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for life stories of Chinese and Chinese Americans who endured racial violence and discrimination as second-class citizens during the 1850s to 1960s.  Ground-breaking authors Michael Luo* and Fae Myenne Ng*\, and Wong Kim Ark’s great-grandson Norman Wong\, share the stories of Chinese lives under American racial laws enacted to exclude\, deport\, and deny their due process of law.    From the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act to the 1956 Immigration and Naturalization Service’s (INS) Chinese Confession program\, the U.S. government scrutinized and separated families and communities\, conducted raids in Chinese communities\, and hunted for “illegal” paper sons. These stories echo the recent raids and terror enforced today against immigrants from Asia\, Africa\, and Latin America.   In Strangers in the Land\, Michael Luo illuminates the stories of racial violence and resistance of Chinese immigrants in the 19th century. Luo writes of early victims of anti-Asian violence\, like Gene Tong\, a Los Angeles herbalist who was dragged from his apartment and hanged by a mob during one of the worst mass lynchings in the country’s history\, and of demagogues like Denis Kearney\, a sandlot orator who became the face of the anti-Chinese movement in the late-1870s.   Fae Myenne Ng’s Orphan Bachelors is a memoir of San Francisco’s Chinatown and of a family building a life in a country bent on their exclusion. She writes\, “exclusion and confession WERE\, the two slamming doors of America … All his life\, my father raged that the Exclusion Act was a brilliant piece of legislation because it was bloodless. He’d intone\, ‘America didn’t have to kill any Chinese; her law assured none would be born.’”’   Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark. Wong Kim Ark fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen. Writes The Washington Post: “In 1895\, Wong Kim Ark returned from a visit to his family’s ancestral village in Taishan\, in China’s Guangdong province\, and was barred from reentering the United States. His three-year legal battle culminated in the Supreme Court’s ruling that the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment — which protects those born on U.S. soil who are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the government — affirmed his status as an American by birth.”    This event is sponsored by Eastwind Books\, Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Asian American Research Center (UC Berkeley)\, Center for Race & Gender (UCB)\, Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA) East Bay\, Asian American & Asian Diaspora Studies (UCB)\, Cal Alumni Association\, Chinese Chapter (UCB); Center for Race\, Immigration\, Citizenship & Equality\, (UC Law SF)\, History Department (UCB).   * Please note that Michael Luo and Fae Myenne Ng will join the panel virtually online.   Panelist Bios   Michael Luo is an executive editor at The New Yorker and writes regularly for the magazine on politics\, religion\, and Asian American issues. He joined The New Yorker in 2016. Before that\, he spent thirteen years at the New York Times\, as a metro reporter\, national correspondent\, and investigative reporter and editor. He is a recipient of a George Polk Award and a Livingston Award for Young Journalists. He is the author of Strangers in the Land: Exclusion\, Belonging\, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America.   Fae Myenne Ng is the author of Orphan Bachelors\, a Memoir\, the bestseller and PEN/Faulkner Fiction finalist Bone\, and the American Book Award winner Steer Toward Rock. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the American Academy of Arts & Letters\, the Guggenheim\, the Lannan Foundation\, the NEA\, the Radcliffe Institute\, and the Rockefeller Foundation. She teaches creative writing and literature in UC Berkeley’s Department of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies.    Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark\, who fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen in 1895\, thereby affirming the 14th Amendment’s establishment of birthright citizenship for all born in the United States. Norman lives in the Bay Area\, with his wife\, Maureen and children.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://oacc.cc/event/banchan-workshop-1/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/20201016Banchan1_Thumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201017T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201017T140000 DTSTAMP:20260727T012518 CREATED:20200824T203306Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201019T182442Z UID:8617-1602939600-1602943200@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Chinatown Pretty Book Talk DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 202-4 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for life stories of Chinese and Chinese Americans who endured racial violence and discrimination as second-class citizens during the 1850s to 1960s.  Ground-breaking authors Michael Luo* and Fae Myenne Ng*\, and Wong Kim Ark’s great-grandson Norman Wong\, share the stories of Chinese lives under American racial laws enacted to exclude\, deport\, and deny their due process of law.    From the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act to the 1956 Immigration and Naturalization Service’s (INS) Chinese Confession program\, the U.S. government scrutinized and separated families and communities\, conducted raids in Chinese communities\, and hunted for “illegal” paper sons. These stories echo the recent raids and terror enforced today against immigrants from Asia\, Africa\, and Latin America.   In Strangers in the Land\, Michael Luo illuminates the stories of racial violence and resistance of Chinese immigrants in the 19th century. Luo writes of early victims of anti-Asian violence\, like Gene Tong\, a Los Angeles herbalist who was dragged from his apartment and hanged by a mob during one of the worst mass lynchings in the country’s history\, and of demagogues like Denis Kearney\, a sandlot orator who became the face of the anti-Chinese movement in the late-1870s.   Fae Myenne Ng’s Orphan Bachelors is a memoir of San Francisco’s Chinatown and of a family building a life in a country bent on their exclusion. She writes\, “exclusion and confession WERE\, the two slamming doors of America … All his life\, my father raged that the Exclusion Act was a brilliant piece of legislation because it was bloodless. He’d intone\, ‘America didn’t have to kill any Chinese; her law assured none would be born.’”’   Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark. Wong Kim Ark fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen. Writes The Washington Post: “In 1895\, Wong Kim Ark returned from a visit to his family’s ancestral village in Taishan\, in China’s Guangdong province\, and was barred from reentering the United States. His three-year legal battle culminated in the Supreme Court’s ruling that the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment — which protects those born on U.S. soil who are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the government — affirmed his status as an American by birth.”    This event is sponsored by Eastwind Books\, Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Asian American Research Center (UC Berkeley)\, Center for Race & Gender (UCB)\, Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA) East Bay\, Asian American & Asian Diaspora Studies (UCB)\, Cal Alumni Association\, Chinese Chapter (UCB); Center for Race\, Immigration\, Citizenship & Equality\, (UC Law SF)\, History Department (UCB).   * Please note that Michael Luo and Fae Myenne Ng will join the panel virtually online.   Panelist Bios   Michael Luo is an executive editor at The New Yorker and writes regularly for the magazine on politics\, religion\, and Asian American issues. He joined The New Yorker in 2016. Before that\, he spent thirteen years at the New York Times\, as a metro reporter\, national correspondent\, and investigative reporter and editor. He is a recipient of a George Polk Award and a Livingston Award for Young Journalists. He is the author of Strangers in the Land: Exclusion\, Belonging\, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America.   Fae Myenne Ng is the author of Orphan Bachelors\, a Memoir\, the bestseller and PEN/Faulkner Fiction finalist Bone\, and the American Book Award winner Steer Toward Rock. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the American Academy of Arts & Letters\, the Guggenheim\, the Lannan Foundation\, the NEA\, the Radcliffe Institute\, and the Rockefeller Foundation. She teaches creative writing and literature in UC Berkeley’s Department of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies.    Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark\, who fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen in 1895\, thereby affirming the 14th Amendment’s establishment of birthright citizenship for all born in the United States. Norman lives in the Bay Area\, with his wife\, Maureen and children.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://oacc.cc/event/chinatown-pretty-book-talk/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/20201017ChinatownPrettyThumbnail-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201024T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201024T103000 DTSTAMP:20260727T012518 CREATED:20201002T012455Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201024T173423Z UID:8717-1603533600-1603535400@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Sari-Sari Story Time 1: Amina and the City of Flowers DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 202-4 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for life stories of Chinese and Chinese Americans who endured racial violence and discrimination as second-class citizens during the 1850s to 1960s.  Ground-breaking authors Michael Luo* and Fae Myenne Ng*\, and Wong Kim Ark’s great-grandson Norman Wong\, share the stories of Chinese lives under American racial laws enacted to exclude\, deport\, and deny their due process of law.    From the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act to the 1956 Immigration and Naturalization Service’s (INS) Chinese Confession program\, the U.S. government scrutinized and separated families and communities\, conducted raids in Chinese communities\, and hunted for “illegal” paper sons. These stories echo the recent raids and terror enforced today against immigrants from Asia\, Africa\, and Latin America.   In Strangers in the Land\, Michael Luo illuminates the stories of racial violence and resistance of Chinese immigrants in the 19th century. Luo writes of early victims of anti-Asian violence\, like Gene Tong\, a Los Angeles herbalist who was dragged from his apartment and hanged by a mob during one of the worst mass lynchings in the country’s history\, and of demagogues like Denis Kearney\, a sandlot orator who became the face of the anti-Chinese movement in the late-1870s.   Fae Myenne Ng’s Orphan Bachelors is a memoir of San Francisco’s Chinatown and of a family building a life in a country bent on their exclusion. She writes\, “exclusion and confession WERE\, the two slamming doors of America … All his life\, my father raged that the Exclusion Act was a brilliant piece of legislation because it was bloodless. He’d intone\, ‘America didn’t have to kill any Chinese; her law assured none would be born.’”’   Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark. Wong Kim Ark fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen. Writes The Washington Post: “In 1895\, Wong Kim Ark returned from a visit to his family’s ancestral village in Taishan\, in China’s Guangdong province\, and was barred from reentering the United States. His three-year legal battle culminated in the Supreme Court’s ruling that the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment — which protects those born on U.S. soil who are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the government — affirmed his status as an American by birth.”    This event is sponsored by Eastwind Books\, Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Asian American Research Center (UC Berkeley)\, Center for Race & Gender (UCB)\, Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA) East Bay\, Asian American & Asian Diaspora Studies (UCB)\, Cal Alumni Association\, Chinese Chapter (UCB); Center for Race\, Immigration\, Citizenship & Equality\, (UC Law SF)\, History Department (UCB).   * Please note that Michael Luo and Fae Myenne Ng will join the panel virtually online.   Panelist Bios   Michael Luo is an executive editor at The New Yorker and writes regularly for the magazine on politics\, religion\, and Asian American issues. He joined The New Yorker in 2016. Before that\, he spent thirteen years at the New York Times\, as a metro reporter\, national correspondent\, and investigative reporter and editor. He is a recipient of a George Polk Award and a Livingston Award for Young Journalists. He is the author of Strangers in the Land: Exclusion\, Belonging\, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America.   Fae Myenne Ng is the author of Orphan Bachelors\, a Memoir\, the bestseller and PEN/Faulkner Fiction finalist Bone\, and the American Book Award winner Steer Toward Rock. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the American Academy of Arts & Letters\, the Guggenheim\, the Lannan Foundation\, the NEA\, the Radcliffe Institute\, and the Rockefeller Foundation. She teaches creative writing and literature in UC Berkeley’s Department of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies.    Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark\, who fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen in 1895\, thereby affirming the 14th Amendment’s establishment of birthright citizenship for all born in the United States. Norman lives in the Bay Area\, with his wife\, Maureen and children.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://oacc.cc/event/sari-sari-story-time-1/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/20201024SariSariAminaThumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201024T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201024T143000 DTSTAMP:20260727T012518 CREATED:20200918T225921Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201024T213741Z UID:8663-1603544400-1603549800@oacc.cc SUMMARY:Oakland Chinatown Today\, Oakland Chinatown Tomorrow DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 202-4 pmFREE  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Join us for life stories of Chinese and Chinese Americans who endured racial violence and discrimination as second-class citizens during the 1850s to 1960s.  Ground-breaking authors Michael Luo* and Fae Myenne Ng*\, and Wong Kim Ark’s great-grandson Norman Wong\, share the stories of Chinese lives under American racial laws enacted to exclude\, deport\, and deny their due process of law.    From the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act to the 1956 Immigration and Naturalization Service’s (INS) Chinese Confession program\, the U.S. government scrutinized and separated families and communities\, conducted raids in Chinese communities\, and hunted for “illegal” paper sons. These stories echo the recent raids and terror enforced today against immigrants from Asia\, Africa\, and Latin America.   In Strangers in the Land\, Michael Luo illuminates the stories of racial violence and resistance of Chinese immigrants in the 19th century. Luo writes of early victims of anti-Asian violence\, like Gene Tong\, a Los Angeles herbalist who was dragged from his apartment and hanged by a mob during one of the worst mass lynchings in the country’s history\, and of demagogues like Denis Kearney\, a sandlot orator who became the face of the anti-Chinese movement in the late-1870s.   Fae Myenne Ng’s Orphan Bachelors is a memoir of San Francisco’s Chinatown and of a family building a life in a country bent on their exclusion. She writes\, “exclusion and confession WERE\, the two slamming doors of America … All his life\, my father raged that the Exclusion Act was a brilliant piece of legislation because it was bloodless. He’d intone\, ‘America didn’t have to kill any Chinese; her law assured none would be born.’”’   Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark. Wong Kim Ark fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen. Writes The Washington Post: “In 1895\, Wong Kim Ark returned from a visit to his family’s ancestral village in Taishan\, in China’s Guangdong province\, and was barred from reentering the United States. His three-year legal battle culminated in the Supreme Court’s ruling that the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment — which protects those born on U.S. soil who are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the government — affirmed his status as an American by birth.”    This event is sponsored by Eastwind Books\, Oakland Asian Cultural Center\, Asian American Research Center (UC Berkeley)\, Center for Race & Gender (UCB)\, Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA) East Bay\, Asian American & Asian Diaspora Studies (UCB)\, Cal Alumni Association\, Chinese Chapter (UCB); Center for Race\, Immigration\, Citizenship & Equality\, (UC Law SF)\, History Department (UCB).   * Please note that Michael Luo and Fae Myenne Ng will join the panel virtually online.   Panelist Bios   Michael Luo is an executive editor at The New Yorker and writes regularly for the magazine on politics\, religion\, and Asian American issues. He joined The New Yorker in 2016. Before that\, he spent thirteen years at the New York Times\, as a metro reporter\, national correspondent\, and investigative reporter and editor. He is a recipient of a George Polk Award and a Livingston Award for Young Journalists. He is the author of Strangers in the Land: Exclusion\, Belonging\, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America.   Fae Myenne Ng is the author of Orphan Bachelors\, a Memoir\, the bestseller and PEN/Faulkner Fiction finalist Bone\, and the American Book Award winner Steer Toward Rock. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the American Academy of Arts & Letters\, the Guggenheim\, the Lannan Foundation\, the NEA\, the Radcliffe Institute\, and the Rockefeller Foundation. She teaches creative writing and literature in UC Berkeley’s Department of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies.    Norman Wong is the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark\, who fought a landmark Supreme Court case to claim his right as an American citizen in 1895\, thereby affirming the 14th Amendment’s establishment of birthright citizenship for all born in the United States. Norman lives in the Bay Area\, with his wife\, Maureen and children.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Register URL:https://oacc.cc/event/oakland-chinatown-today-tomorrow/ LOCATION:CA CATEGORIES:Past Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://oacc.cc/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/20201024OCTodayandTomorrowThumbnail.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Oakland Asian Cultural Center":MAILTO:programs@oacc.cc END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR