Mohit Mehta, MA
Assistant Director for the Center for Asian American Studies, and PhD candidate in Curriculum & Instruction
This conversation took place on September 29, 2023 at the Center for Asian American Studies at the University of Texas in Austin, TX. At the time of recording, CAAS was located in Bellmont 220.
Additional Resources
Bohra, Neelam. “The ‘UT 10’: How students past and present preserve the Asian American identity.” The Daily Texan. May 8, 2020. https://thedailytexan.com/2020/05/08/ut-austin-asian-american-protest/.
Cheng, Cindy I-Fen. Citizens of Asian America: Democracy and Race during the Cold War. New York: New York University Press, 2014.
Daniels, Roger. Guarding the Golden Door: American Immigration Policy and Immigrants Since 1882. New York: Hill and Wang, 2005.
Hing, Bill Ong. Making and Remaking Asian America Through Immigration Policy, 1850-1990. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993.
Nguyen, Viet Thanh. “The Beautiful, Flawed Fiction of ‘Asian America.’” The New York Times, May 31, 2021. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/31/opinion/culture/asian-american-AAPI-decolonization.html.
Asian Relations is a series of conversations recorded in the Fall 2023 semester at the Center for Asian American Studies (CAAS) and the Asian American Resource Center (AARC) in Austin, TX. Led by CCI researcher Dr. Allison Kim (she/her), these conversations follow the stories of nine UT students, faculty, staff, and alumni concerning their identification with and connection to the AANHPI communities. This research-based project is conversational in tone, leaning into subjective experience and drawing out the relational moments between individuals.
