Tao Leigh Goffe – Asian American / Asian Research Institute

Tao Leigh Goffe

Tao Leigh Goffe is an Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow in New York University’s Department of Social and Cultural Analysis. Prior to this, she held the position of Postdoctoral Research Associate in Princeton University’s Department of African American Studies. Dr. Goffe’s research examines the literatures and subcultures of black and Asian diasporas in the United States, United Kingdom, and Caribbean. She earned her Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University in 2015, and has taught at Princeton University, Hunter College, and Yale University.

Unfamiliar Harbors: A Jamaican Chinese Archive of Intimacies from Kingston to Kowloon

July 16, 2018September 23, 2016 By Tao Leigh Goffe

How might Kingston be a port of call for the Overseas Chinese? And how might Hong Kong be an important metropolis of the Black diaspora? In this talk, Tao Leigh Goffe examines the intersections of the African and Asian diasporas in a journey from New York to Jamaica to the New Territories in Hong Kong where through the technology of photography and the internet she was reunited with Afro-Jamaican and Chinese family she had never knew existed.