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Prof. Aleah Ranjitingh will present her research on Chinese-Caribbean immigrants in the United States, and the ways in which they understand self in terms of race and ethnicity. Centering on identity formation as persons of Chinese descent, but also with a distinct ethnic identity as voluntary immigrants from the Caribbean (Rogers 2001), Prof. Ranjitsingh is interested in interrogating: identity and identification choices in the U.S.; how and if Chinese-Caribbean immigrants understood and experienced anti-Asian hate and discrimination at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic; and if mixed race Chinese immigrants also maneuver mixedness and racial defaults (Barratt and Ranjitsingh 2001).
Research supported by 2023 Betty Lee Sung Research Endowment Award
Aleah N. Ranjitsingh is Assistant Professor of Caribbean Studies in the Africana Studies Department at Brooklyn College/CUNY. She received her Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies from the Institute for Gender and Development Studies (IGDS), University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. Her research focuses on the Caribbean and the Caribbean diaspora where she interrogates the concepts of gender, race, mixed race, Blackness, identity, and diaspora. She has published in the Journal for Intercultural Studies, the Caribbean Journal of International Relations and Diplomacy, and the Caribbean Review of Gender Studies. She is the co-author of Dougla in the 21st Century: Adding to the Mix (University of Mississippi Press, June 2021), a study of race and the mixed race Dougla identity in the Caribbean and the Caribbean, and editor of the collection The Asian Caribbean in the Caribbean Diaspora. Essays on Migration, Identity, and Literary and Cultural Representations (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2026).
