Filling a major gap in oral history
November 26, 2024
The Southern Mix project began in 2017 after a group of UNC-Chapel Hill students saw a need for the University archives to reflect stories of Asian and Asian Americans in North Carolina.
The Southern Mix project began in 2017 after a group of UNC-Chapel Hill students saw a need for the University archives to reflect stories of Asian and Asian Americans in North Carolina.
Heidi Kim, professor of English and comparative literature and director of UNC’s Asian American Center, has been selected for a Summer Residency at the National Humanities Center to begin work on a book about Asian American literature.
Heidi Kim, director of Carolina’s new Asian American Center, discusses how the center’s first few months went during the pandemic, the rise in anti-Asian racism and violence nationally and locally, and a resulting “silver lining” for the center.