While researching her ancestry, Director Crystal Kwok unpacked the Chinese American experiences in America’s racial past through her documentary, “Blurring the Color Line: Chinese in the Segregated South.”
Ashley Choi
Contributing Reporter
Tenzin Jorden, Photography Editor
To celebrate Pan Asian American Heritage Month at Yale, the Asian American Cultural Center, in partnership with the Afro-American Cultural Center, hosted a screening of Director Crystal Kwok’s “Blurring the Color Line: Chinese in the Segregated South” this Tuesday.
Selected personally by Assistant Dean of Yale and AACC Director Joliana Yee, the hour-long documentary screening was held in the Afro-American Cultural Center. Immediately following was a question and answer session with Kwok, who Zoomed in from the University of Hawaii to answer questions and engage in a discussion about discrimination and race relations between Asian and Asian American and Black communities in the United States.
“This project started as something much more personal about my grandmother, and as things happened in the editing process, the narrative shifted from personal women’s stories to race relations,” said Kwok during the question and answer session….
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