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
In the context of the scapegoating of immigrants and intensified nativism in US politics, it is often taken for granted by scholars and journalists that members of immigrant communities in the US would automatically reject such politics. However, many immigrants hold seemingly contradictory political positions, informed by multi-national political and economic trends that complicate this … Read More
The Global Right Across Borders Hindu Supremacists in a White World Audrey Truschke, Rutgers University, Newark Bolsonaristas in the US: 2018 and 2022 Vânia Penha-Lopes, Bloomfield College The Anti-Democratic Wave in Brazil Isabela Kalil, University of São Paulo
Immigrant Communities and Global Politics Indian American Political Activism Prema Ann Kurien, Syracuse University Political Opinions of Brazilians living in the United States Gladys Mitchell-Walthour, North Carolina Central University The Construction of Hinduphobia in the UK Meena Dhanda, University of Wolverhampton
Roundtable: Transnational Solidarity Politics: Reflections by Organizers Eduardo Vianna, City University of New York and organizer, formerly with Defend Democracy in Brazil and BRADO Natalia de Campos, Performance artist and activist, Defend Democracy in Brazil Committee, NY In conversation with the panelists Moderator: Sean T. Mitchell, Rutgers University, Newark