Please join AASC for a talk on Asian American mental health with David L. Eng and Shinhee Han, the authors of “Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans.” The event will be in the Fries Center for Global Studies on Friday, April 22, from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m., and food will be served.
About the speakers: David L. Eng is the Richard L. Fisher Professor of English and Asian American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and Shinhee Han Ph.D., is a psychotherapist at the New School and in private practice in New York City. They are the co-authors of the 2019 book “Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans.”
For more on their background, as well as to learn more about their writing, see this article by Hua Hsu in The New Yorker:
https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-stories-we-tell-and-dont-tell-about-asian-american-lives
