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Humanities Center
Presents
Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
A Memoir by Curtis Chin
Nineteen eighties Detroit was a volatile place to live, but above the fray stood a safe haven: Chung’s Cantonese Cuisine, where anyone—from the city’s first Black mayor to the local drag queens, from a big-time Hollywood star to elderly Jewish couples—could sit down for a warm, home-cooked meal. Here was where, beneath a bright-red awning and surrounded by his multigenerational family, filmmaker and activist Curtis Chin came of age; where he learned to embrace his identity as a gay ABC, or American-born Chinese.
Thursday, May 9, 2024,
3:30pm-4:50 Humanities Gateway 1800
(Light Reception to follow in the Humanities Gateway Courtyard at 5pm)
Free Book Giveaway for attendees who author Instagram posts about Curtis Chin and his book!!! Click the link below for more information: