Anti-Asian racism has roared back with the COVID-19 pandemic. The sentiments that have fueled soaring hate crimes against AAPI communities, including killings of Asian American women in New York City and Atlanta and serial brutalization of the Asian American elderly, didn’t come from nowhere. This kick-off seminar for the 2022-2023 Mellon Sawyer Seminar, “Natives and … Read More

Mae Ngai, Columbia University Cathy Park Hong, Rutgers University, Newark Moderated by Rose Cuison-Villazor, Rutgers Law School, Newark

Deepa Iyer, SolidarityIs, Building Movement Project Vivian Truong, Swarthmore College Ellen Wu, Indiana University Bloomington Diane Wong, Rutgers University, Newark Chaired and moderated by Jamie Lew, Rutgers University, Newark

Jason Chang, University of Connecticut Julia Wang, Immigrant History Initiative Kathy Lu, Immigrant History Initiative Chaired and moderated by Jack Tchen, Rutgers University, Newark