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One Century after Thind: Continuing the Conversation

Wednesday, November 8, 2023 | 2pm to 3:15pm

Join the Asian American / Asian Research Institute for a panel discussion for the launch of “One Century after Thind,” a special issue of Ethnic Studies Review, edited by Dr. Soniya Munshi (Queens College/CUNY) and Dr. Linta Varghese (Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY), examining legacies past and present of the U.S. Supreme Court case, United States v Bhagat Singh Thind (1923). Building on discussions in the special issue, we will continue examinations of caste in the South Asian diaspora, the criminalization of migrants, and the racialized citizenship debates in the early 20th century as part of U.S. state-making.

Co-Sponsors
Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU
Department of Ethnic and Race Studies at Borough of Manhattan Community College/CUNY
Ethnic Studies Review – University of California Press
Urban Studies Department at Queens College/CUNY

Author Bio

Kirisitina Sailiata is an assistant professor in American Studies at Macalester College. She earned her PhD and MA in American Studies from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and her BA in American Studies from Macalester College. Sailiata was a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Asian American Studies at the University of California-Los Angeles. She is working on a book project entitled The Making of Samoa Amelika which examines the formation of American Samoa as a territory and attending US citizenship debates in the early 20th century.


Mizue Aizeki is Executive Director and founder of the Surveillance Resistance Lab, a think and act tank that builds research and networks of collaboration to take on the threat of surveillance at the nexus of state and corporate power. For nearly twenty years, Mizue has focused on ending the injustices—including criminalization, imprisonment, and exile—at the intersections of the criminal and migration control systems. Mizue was a Senior Advisor at the Immigrant Defense Project (IDP) and the founder of the Surveillance, Tech and Immigration Project. She is a co-editor of Resisting Borders and Technologies of Violence (forthcoming 2023, Haymarket Books) and her photographic work appears in Dying to Live, A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid (City Lights Books, 2008) and Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter (Verso, 2016).


Prachi Patankar is an anti-caste and feminist writer and activist who was born in rural Maharashtra, India. Over two decades in New York, she has been involved in social movements that link the local and the global, police brutality and war, migration and militarization, race and caste, women of color feminism, and global gender justice. Her work has been published by Al Jazeera, the Guardian, Jadaliyya, The Jacobin, and several other publications.