APA Program News
The following is an excerpt from the APA Program’s End of the Year Letter written by Richard Kurin, the APA Program’s Acting Director. To read the full letter, click here to download the PDF.
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Dear Friends,
Warm greetings!
This past year has brought many changes as well as accomplishments for the Asian Pacific American Program (APAP). Among our achievements, we collaborated with the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage to present Asian Pacific America as one of the featured communities at the 2010 Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Also in 2010, we presented to the National Portrait Gallery an APAP-commissioned portrait of the Honorable Norman Mineta; the portrait is now on display for the public. Throughout the past year, we continued to offer a variety of public programs on topics such as the internment of Japanese Americans; the Vietnamese American diaspora; the history of the Angel Island Immigration Station; the history of Chinese food in America; the practice of Filipino martial arts; and South Asian film and literature.
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