Disciplinary Futures: Sociology in Conversation with American, Ethnic, and Indigenous Studies – Asian American / Asian Research Institute

Tuesday, March 19, 2024 | 5pm to 6:30pm

There is a growing consensus that the discipline of sociology and the social sciences broadly need to engage more thoroughly with the legacy and the present day of colonialism, Indigenous/settler colonialism, imperialism, and racial capitalism in the United States and globally. In Disciplinary Futures, edited by Nadia Y. Kim and Pawan Dhingra, a cross-section of scholars comes together to engage sociology and the social sciences by way of these paradigms, particularly from the influence of disciplines of American, Ethnic, and Indigenous Studies.

With original essays from scholars such as Yến Lê Espiritu, Sunaina Maira, Hōkūlani K. Aikau, Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, Ben Carrington, Yvonne Sherwood, and Gilda L. Ochoa, among others, Disciplinary Futures offers concrete pathways for how the social sciences can expand from the limiting frameworks they traditionally use to study race and racism, namely: the black-white binary, the privileging of the nation-state, the fixation on the US mainland, the underappreciation of post- and settler-colonial studies, the liberal assumptions, and the limited conception of what constitutes data.

For this talk, Kim and Dhingra will discuss their contributed pieces, “‘Can’t We All Just Get Along?’ Public Opinion on Race in Los Angeles Twenty-Five Years after Rodney King” and “Precarity and Privilege: Racial Capitalism, Immigration, Law, and Immigrants’ Academic Pursuits,” and highlight chapters on “Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Studies” and “New Epistemologies and Methodologies.”

Purchase Book: https://nyupress.org/9781479819041/disciplinary-futures/

Author Bio

Nadia Y. Kim

Pawan Dhingra