Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant: A Memoir By Curtis Chin

Presented by Humanities Center and Humanities Core:

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.


Reception at 5:00 pm in Humanities Gateway Courtyard
Free books for attendees who author Instagram posts about Curtis Chin and his book!!!!! 

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