01/10/2024
By Cherry Lim

Curtis Chin's new memoir, "Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant" (Little, Brown and Company, 2023) is about growing up Asian American in the Black and white city of Detroit and coming out in his working-class immigrant community, as well as being a first-generation college student at the University of Michigan.

Please join us for a series of events on Friday, Jan. 19 to interact with the author and learn more about his experiences:

  • Lunch with Curtis Chin
    11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., AACEE / Cumnock Hall 201
  • Reading + Q&A
    2-3:30 p.m., Coburn Hall 255
  • Reading at Lala Books
    6-8 p.m., 189 Market St., Lowell MA, 01852

These events are open to all and no RSVP is required. These events are cosponsored by the Asian American Center for Excellence and Engagement, Center for Asian American Studies, English Department, Gender Studies, Labor Studies, River Hawk Scholars Academy, and the Wilder Interdisciplinary Studies Hub.

For more info, email Satyak_Som@uml.edu.

More about the author:

A co-founder of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop in New York City, Curtis Chin served as the non-profits’ first Executive Director. He went on to write for network and cable television before transitioning to social justice documentaries. Chin’s films – including Vincent Who? (2009), Tested (2015), and Dear Corky (2022) – have been screened at over 600 venues in twenty countries. He has written for CNN, Bon Appetit, the Detroit Free Press and the Emancipator/Boston Globe and received awards from ABC/Disney Television, New York Foundation for the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, and more. He has also worked as the Director of Outreach for the Democratic National Committee and served on Barack Obama’s Asian American Leadership Committee during his 2008 Presidential Campaign.