to my immediate rights is john tchen who goes by jack and historian curator and founder of the museum. i remember when it was down on east broadway. >> in the school building. >> a rich history of 35 years. >> also the founding director of the american studies program and to put the divisive social -- social and cultural analysis. he just completed an essay the subject of this evening also has an upcoming exhibition at the new-york historical society in his next book will be published alongside that exhibition and. our next guest teeeighteen specializes in united states is refocusing on the political structure. american politics, the asian american history also a public historian and train darkest and is licensed to give to workers in new york city. and finally real jack shaheen focusing on negative images and stereotypes and other minorities a former cbs news consultant on a very popular series and his new book is and "a is for arab" he has a collection that donated and deposited at new york university and is very special within 4,000 images of television programs and pitchers and ca

over all these years, and i want to compliment my dear friends and colleagues, dylan yeats and john tchen, on their new book, "yellow peril," which is a brilliant book. i couldn't put be it down. professor tchen offered to buy me a latte if i plugged the book tonight -- [laughter] so i'll take him up on it as soon as this session has ended. but seriously, the "a is for arab" book is based on four decades of work whereby i, along with my dear wife bernice, went about collecting images of arabs in american popular culture. more than 2,000 films and television shows, hundreds of comic books, toys and games, cartoons. and it all began innocently, actually. i never intended to look at this particular topic. i don't look arab, you know? i have green ideas, and shaheen sounds irish. so it was sort of nothing that really appealed to me until one day i was upstairs, it was in the mid '70s, and my children came running up the steps saying, daddy, daddy, they've got bad arabs on. and i really didn't know quite what to do except i went downstairs and there on the television set we saw cartoons like p

he joined john tchen and dylan yeats to talk about the history and current use of arab and asia