Catherine Leung: Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations oral history collection: NYU Special Collections Finding Aids

Scope and Contents

In the interview, Leung discusses her racial identity; encounters with racism and racial stereotypes; parents' courtship, marriage, and divorce; father's connection to Chinese culture; mother's Assyrian heritage; and involvement in community building organizations at Smith College. Interview conducted by Sady Sullivan.

Biographical note

Catherine Leung was born to a mixed heritage American mother and a Chinese American father and raised in the Park Slope and DUMBO neighborhoods of Brooklyn. She attended Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn, New York and Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Conditions Governing Access

Access to the interview is available onsite at the Brooklyn Historical Society's Othmer Library. The Brooklyn Historical Society does not have permission to license oral history audio recordings or transcripts to third parties.

Subjects

Topics

Racial stereotyping; Race identity; Education, Higher |z Massachusetts |z Northampton; Education -- New York (State) -- Kings County; Assyrians |z New York (State) |z New York; Chinese Americans |z New York (State) |z New York; Student life and customs -- New York (State) -- Kings County; Racially mixed people; Racially mixed families

Places

Park Slope (New York, N.Y.); DUMBO (New York, N.Y.)

Catherine Leung, 2012 November 27, inclusive