Join the Center for Ethnic Studies for a book talk featuring filmmaker and co-founder of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Curtis Chin. Chin will discuss his recent memoir about coming of age and coming out. Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant traces the author’s journey through 1980’s Detroit as he navigated rising xenophobia, the AIDS epidemic and the Reagan Revolution to find his voice as a writer and activist — all set against the backdrop of his family’s popular Chinese restaurant.
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 has screened his films at over 600 venues in sixteen countries and has written for CNN, Bon Appetit, the Detroit Free Press and the Boston Globe. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Chin has received awards from ABC/Disney Television, New York Foundation for the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, and more. His essay in Bon Appetit was just selected for Best Food Writing in America 2023 and he just produced an episode for the America’s Test Kitchen podcast, titled “Proof.”
This event is free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Asian American Studies program in the Center for Ethnic Studies, the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, the OSU Humanities Institute, OSU MUNDO and the Department of English.
More about Curtis Chin can be found here: https://www.curtisfromdetroit.com/
