Please join me for the UIC Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy (IRRPP) Race/Ethnicity Workshop on October 22 at 12 Noon. I will present a talk on my new book, Citizens, Immigrants, and the Stateless: A Japanese American Diaspora in the Pacific. Please email me to request a Zoom link to the virtual event.
Check out the book’s introductory chapter.
For accommodations/access requests or general questions, contact Max Cuddy.
We’re just a month away from the publication day!
You can read the introductory chapter of Citizens, Immigrants, and the Stateless: A Japanese American Diaspora in the Pacific here, courtesy of Stanford University Press.
Receive a 30% discount when you order directly form Stanford University Press with the discount code S21XASTA-FM, good through November 10, 2021.
Citizens, Immigrants, and the Stateless is also available at the following booksellers:
I am back to teaching at UIC this fall, with a new 400-level course, “The Pacific Rim in Modern History,” which examines the connected histories of peoples, cultures, and societies across East Asia, North America, the Island world, and Latin America. This course fulfills the major requirements for Global Asian Studies (GLAS) and History.
Our statement of solidarity with Palestine:
May 17, 2021
The Global Asian Studies Program at the University of Illinois Chicago stands in solidarity with the Palestinian people and the various statements of solidarity issued by our colleagues in the Palestinian Feminist Collective, the Gender Studies Departments in Solidarity with Palestinian Feminist Collective, the Palestine and Praxis: Scholars for Palestinian Freedom. We denounce the violence that the settler colonial state power of Israel is exercising against Palestinians that have resulted in the continuing forced displacement of residents of Sheikh Jarrah, raids on Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the bombing of Gaza. Israeli military forces were deployed in the West Bank and Gaza seven days ago, and as of today, hundreds of Palestinians have been killed, thousands have been injured, over 38,000 people in Gaza have been displaced, and at least 500 homes have been destroyed.
We uplift the determination of the Palestinian people. We call for the end of the Israeli military occupation of Palestine, which has resulted in the mass expulsion –Nakba – of over 750,000 Palestinians from their homeland between 1947-1949 and the continued displacement of what is now over 7 million Palestinian refugees. And we call for the Palestinian people’s right of return.
As educators of Global Asian Studies, an academic unit that emphasizes the study of Asian and Asian American histories, cultures, and politics, and shifts in US racial formations including Islamaphobia, new Orientalisms, and anti Arab/South Asian/Muslim racisms, our intellectual projects are anchored by a commitment to understanding and historicizing the social inequalities that face our communities. Our curriculum focuses on pedagogies that reflect decolonizing, intersectional, anti-racist, and anti-capitalist frameworks that are committed to understanding “Global Asia” in relation to and connected with Black, Indigeneous, Arab American, Latinx communities. Our analyses of power and resistance, our engagement with communities, and our work in forging critical solidarities is premised on these frameworks.
We uplift and uphold the legacy of solidarity that has existed between Asian/Asian American communities and Arab/Arab American communities….
Read the rest of our statement here.
I am pleased to announce that the publication date for my book, Citizens, Immigrants, and the Stateless: A Japanese American Diaspora in the Pacific, is November 16, 2021. The book is available for preorder at the Stanford University Press website, Amazon, 紀伊国屋書店, and other booksellers.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation‘s Preservation Magazine features a new article about the Harada House, an endangered historic landmark in California. Included in the story is my historical perspective on the Asian exclusion movement in the United States and the implications of California’s alien land laws:
In this week’s Japan on the Record episode, I join the host Tristan Grunow of the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University and Vivian Shaw, a College Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University and Lead Researcher of the AAPI COVID-19 Project, to talk about the increase in anti-Asian racism during the COVID-19 pandemic and the longer history of anti-Asian xenophobia in North America.
To listen to the episode, please visit Japan on the Record.