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SUMMARY:Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America
DESCRIPTION:Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Center for Black Visual Culture and the Asian Pacific American Institute welcome author Jeff Chang and cultural critic Bakari Kitwana to discuss Chang’s new publication Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America. This conversation will be followed by a book signing\, where copies will be available for purchase.As the best-known martial artist and one of the most celebrated action stars ever\, Bruce Lee is a global icon. He symbolizes swagger\, strength\, and the unbeatable spirit of the underdog. But in more than fifty years since his untimely death at age thirty-two\, the legend has eclipsed the real man. During his lifetime\, Bruce fought to be seen—from Hong Kong to Hollywood\, Asian tenements to American ghettos\, the lonely garret to the international screen. He emerged as a star in an era when Asian Americans were fighting against exclusion and invisibility. Now\, drawing on private letters\, rare documents and photos\, and interviews with his closest confidants\, Water Mirror Echo reveals the Bruce many never saw and places his complicated life within a revolution from which it cannot be separated: the emergence of Asian America. \nJeff Chang’s first book\, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation\, was called one of the best nonfiction books of the last quarter century. His latest\, Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America (Mariner)\, was named one of 2025’s Best by Publisher’s Weekly\, Alta\, Vogue\, Kirkus\, and NPR. He authored the award-winning Who We Be: A Cultural History of Race in Post Civil Rights America\, and We Gon’ Be Alright: Notes On Race and Resegregation. He has written for the New York Times\, the Wall Street Journal\, the Washington Post\, The Guardian\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, and many more. He is the host of the Signal award-winning podcast\, Edge of Reason\, and of KALW Public Media’s podcast\, Notes From the Edge. \nBakari Kitwana an internationally known cultural critic\, journalist\, activist\, and thought leader in the area of hip-hop\, youth culture\, and Black political engagement\, Bakari Kitwana is the Executive Director of Rap Sessions\, which for the last fourteen years has conducted over 150 townhall meetings around the nation on difficult dialogues facing the hip-hop and millennial generations. Kitwana is the author of Why White Kids Love Hip-Hop and co-editor (with David Orr\, Andrew Gumbel and William Becker) of Democracy Unchained: How to Rebuild Government For the People (The New Press\, 2020). His groundbreaking 2002 book The Hip-Hop Generation popularized the expression and has been adopted as a coursebook in classrooms at over 100 college and universities. \nRSVP \nDate:  April 9th\, 2026 \nTime:  6:00pm to 8:00pm \nLocation: 3rd Floor Lobby20 Cooper Square\, New York\, NY 10003
URL:https://cbvc.nyu.edu/events/water-mirror-echo
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, 20 Cooper Square\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
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SUMMARY:#IWonderU40 Prince Symposium
DESCRIPTION:#IWonderU40 Prince Symposium\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us on April 17–19\, 2026 (Friday–Sunday) for #IWonderU40\, a *HYBRID* Prince symposium. This is a very special one this year\, commemorating two landmark anniversaries: ten years since Prince’s passing and forty years since his visionary 1986 releases\, the Parade album and his second narrative film Under the Cherry Moon. \nSave the dates and pre-register now at https://iwonderu40.substack.com. The speaker and schedule at a glance are on the symposium website\,  https://iwonderu.polishedsolid.com. \nThis will be our first hybrid symposium\, designed to support both our international and local community. \n\nFriday • Fully virtual on Zoom Events + YouTube to accommodate our global audience.\nSaturday and Sunday • In person at NYU Tandon in Brooklyn at 370 Jay St.\, where we previously celebrated #EroticCity40.\n\nThe in-person sessions will be livestreamed and posted later on YouTube and/or Vimeo. \nMASSIVE THANKS to our wonderful sponsors\, NYU Integrated Design & Media (IDM)\, Princesyllabus.org\, NYU Tandon Undergraduate Academic Affairs\, NYU Liberal Studies\, NYU Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music (CDI)\, NYU Institute of African American Affairs and the Center for Black Visual Culture (IAAA & CBVC)\, NYU Photography & Imaging (DPI)\, NYU Center for Multicultural Education and Programs (CMEP)\, NYU LGBTQ+ Center\, NYU Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality (CSGS)\, and Rev3rend for the INCREDIBLE graphics! \nThis event is FREE. Please consider donating to DIVAS (Digital Interactive Visual Arts Sciences) for Social Justice\, a 501(c) nonprofit that empowers youth living in underserved communities to use tech and visual arts to promote social justice and become change makers in their communities. \nDIVAS currently serves New York City and recently expanded to South Minneapolis. \nTo learn more\, watch this trailer and visit divasforsocialjustice.org. \n  \nThis symposium is dedicated to De Angela’s dearest and oldest Prince friend Ricky Wyatt (1971–2025)! \n#IWonderU40 is the 11th polished solid Prince symposium and the 16th Prince event\, curated by De Angela L. Duff! \nThe Estate of Prince Rogers Nelson is not affiliated\, associated\, or connected with the ‘Prince #IWonderU40 Hybrid Symposium’ nor has it endorsed or sponsored the ‘Prince #IWonderU40 Hybrid Symposium.’ Further\, the Estate of Prince Rogers Nelson has not licensed any of its intellectual property to the producers\, advertisers\, or directors of the ‘Prince #IWonderU40 Hybrid Symposium.’ \n  \nRSVP \nDates:  April 17 – 19\, 2026 \nTime:  6:00pm to 8:00pm \nLocations:  \nFriday: Zoom Events (and YouTube for the keynote conversations) \nSaturday + Sunday: 370 Jay Street\, Rm 202
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LOCATION:370 Jay St.\, 370 Jay Street\, Rm 202\, Brooklyn\, New York\, 11201\, United States
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