Guide to the Yoland Skeete Research Files on Newark Chinatown. 12.0 linear feet. "This collection contains the research files of Yoland Skeete who compiled a wide range of materials as part of the Newark Chinatown History project presented by the Sumei Multidisciplinary Art Center. Skeete's files include Chinese immigrant files, photographs, audio and video tapes, oral histories, T-shirts, newspaper articles on the New Jersey Chinese community, primary and secondary sources related to Newark Chinatown history, and marketing materials. It also contains manuscripts and correspondence related to Skeete's research." Collection in the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archive at New York University.
From the Sumei Multidisciplinary Arts Center website:
In 2000, Sumei received a grant from NJPAC - Mellon Fund to begin research on the Newark Chinatown history. The following year a grant from The Council on the Humanities was received to continue research and documentation of the history of this community. During the following years this project grew with Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation support and Sumei commissioned the Chinese artist Ye Xun to produce models of what the old Chinatown looked like. Artist Ye Xun worked for one year to produce one side of the Mulberry Street area and then, with the help of another Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation grant, the following year he created the second side of the Chinatown street. This work and the artist's records and research have become a part of the archive of Newark Chinatown...Sumei has created a permanent exhibit of the history, research, and artifacts of Newark Chinatown.