View from Gold Mountain: Commemorating Asian American Civil Rights Through Monuments

Date: February 1st, 2023
Duration: 1h:16m:45s

Located outside of the Bernalillo County Courthouse in Albuquerque, New Mexico stands View from Gold Mountain, a monument commemorating Territory of N.M. vs. Yee Shun, the 1884 lawsuit that brought about a change in the law allowing Chinese people, and then later non-Christians, to testify in court. Artists Cheryll Leo-Gwin and Stewart Wong will discuss the making of this monument and its significance as a landmark court case enshrining civil rights for Asian Americans.

This event is part of the 2022-23 Human Rights and the Museum Series, a collaboration between the Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center (KHC) and the Museum and Gallery Studies Program in the Art and Design Department at Queensborough Community College (QCC). It was co-sponsored by the Asian American/Asian Research Institute at CUNY; the Ray Wolpow Institute for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity at Western Washington University; and the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights at Rutgers University. For more information about the Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center, please visit https://khc.qcc.cuny.edu

Website: https://khc.qcc.cuny.edu/