Wednesday, December 2, 2026 | 6pm to 7:15pm
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How do our experiences of race in the United States intersect? How can we find strength in cross-cultural and cross-racial solidarity? How do we strive for racial justice? Join Robert L. Hess Scholars Russell M. Jeung and Tanya Katerí Hernández in conversation as they draw on their personal and professional journeys to address these questions.
Organizer
Ethyle R. Wolfe Institute for the Humanities – Brooklyn College/CUNY
Co-Sponsor
Asian American / Asian Research Institute – CUNY
Author Bio
Russell M. Jeung, the 2025-6 Robert L. Hess Scholar in Residence, is Professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University and co-founder of Stop AAPI Hate. He is author of Family Sacrifices: The Worldviews and Ethics of Chinese Americans; Moving Movers: Student Activism and the Emergence of Asian American Studies; At Home in Exile: Finding Jesus among My Ancestors and Refugee Neighbors; Sustaining Faith Traditions: Race, Ethnicity and Religion Among the Latino and Asian American Second Generation (with Carolyn Chen); and Faithful Generations: Race and New Asian American Churches. In March 2020, Professor Jeung co-founded Stop AAPI Hate. He was named as one of the TIME 100 Most Influential Persons in 2021.
Tanya Katerí Hernández, the 2026-27 Robert L. Hess Scholar-in-Residence, is Archibald R. Murray Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law. An internationally recognized comparative race law expert, she is the author of Racial Subordination in Latin America: The Role of the State, Customary Law and the New Civil Rights Response (including Spanish and Portuguese translation editions); Brill Research Perspectives in Comparative Law; Racial Discrimination, Multiracials and Civil Rights: Mixed-Race Stories of Discrimination; and Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and The Struggle for Equality, along with its Spanish translation edition. Her next book, The Global Erasure of Blackness: The Civil Rights Crisis of Census (Under) Counting, will be released in 2027.
