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"The past is never dead. It's not even past." William Faulkner

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Faces of Migration: Take Out

TAKE OUT

Tue. Feb. 6 | 7:00pm

CLA 1.302E (Glickman Conference Center)

Public parking: Brazos Garage, 210 E. MLK Blvd.

From directors Sean Baker (“Tangerine,” “The Florida Project”) and Shih-Ching Tsou, “Take Out” is a day-in-the-life of Ming Ding, an illegal Chinese immigrant working as a deliveryman for a Chinese take-out shop in New York City. Ming is behind with his payments on his huge debt to the smugglers who brought him to the US. The collectors have given him until the end of the day to deliver the money that is due. After borrowing most from friends and relatives, Ming realizes that the remainder must come from the day’s delivery tips. In order to do so, he must make more than double his average daily income. In a social-realist style, the camera follows Ming on his deliveries throughout the upper Manhattan neighborhood where social and economic extremes exist side by side. Intercutting between Ming’s deliveries and the daily routine of the restaurant, “Take Out” presents a harsh and realistic look at the daily lives of illegal Chinese immigrants in present day New York City.

Introduced by Dr. Madeline Y. Hsu, Professor of History, and faculty affiliate of Asian American Studies, Asian Studies, and Mexican American and Latina_o Studies, at the University of Texas at Austin, with discussion following. Free and open to the public. No RSVP necessary.

Presented by Not Even Past, The Department of History, and Institute of Historical Studies. Co-Sponsored by Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, Center for Mexican American Studies, Center for European Studies, Center for East Asian Studies, Center for Asian American Studies, Department of American Studies, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and Humanities Media Project in the College of Liberal Arts.

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