Sep 24 2024

Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World: A Book Talk with Claire Jean Kim

Legacies of Racism

September 24, 2024

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM (CST)

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Online

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About the event: Join UIC’s Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy and co-sponsors Black Studies, Sociology, and Global Asian Studies for an online conversation with UC Irvine Professor Claire Jean Kim about her third book, Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World, which provides a theoretically provocative analysis of how we must consider both anti-Blackness and white supremacy — and the articulation of the two forces — in order to understand U.S. racial dynamics and where Asian Americans fit into the racial order. As Dr. Kim articulates, the construction of Asian Americans as not-white but above all not-Black has determined their positionality for nearly two centuries. How Asian Americans choose to respond to this status will help to define racial politics in the U.S. in the twenty-first century.

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About the series: Events in the Legacies of Racism Series deepen our understanding of the challenges and possibilities of policy efforts to address longstanding racial inequality. Legacies of Racism events build on the themes from our State of Racial Justice in Chicago reports and explore the recent and historic origins of racial and ethnic inequities and ask questions about what it means to try to repair systematic harm done to people and communities.

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Date posted

Jul 29, 2024

Date updated

Sep 23, 2024

Speakers

Claire Jean Kim | Professor of Political Science and Asian American Studies | University of California, Irvine

Dr. Kim's research interests include race and politics, Asian American politics, Black politics, and human-animal studies. She is the author of three books. Her first book, Bitter Fruit: The Politics of Black-Korean Conflict in New York City (Yale University Press, 2000) was the recipient of the American Political Science Association's Ralph Bunche Award for the Best Book on Ethnic and Cultural Pluralism and a Best Book Award from the American Political Science Association Organized Section on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics. Her second book, Dangerous Crossings: Race, Species, and Nature in a Multicultural Age (Cambridge University Press, 2015), was also the recipient of a Best Book Award from the American Political Science Association Organized Section on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics. Her third book, Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World (Cambridge University Press, 2023), was selected for NPR's Books We Love list for 2023. Dr. Kim has delivered numerous keynote and plenary talks within the U.S. and abroad. She has written many journal articles, book chapters, and essays, and has been a guest commentator on MSNBC, PBS, and NPR, and her popular writing has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The Nation, The American Scholar, and Ms. Magazine. She is regularly interviewed on podcasts, documentary films, and various media on topics relating to race, animals, and ecology.