Lecture Series

Contentious Solidarities: Navigating Racialization and Alliance-Building in Korean American Immigrant Rights Work

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Based on ten months of ethnographic fieldwork with Korean American immigrant rights organizers, and the Black and Latinx organizers with which they attempt to build solidarity, this presentation explores how the aforementioned tensions unfold in activists’ daily interactions as they attempt to build an interracial solidarity movement at a moment of intensified anti-immigrant rhetoric and policy-making.

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Deconstruction and Rebuilding of Cultural Heritage Through Music

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Throughout history, we have deconstructed and rebuilt our cultural heritage. As a composer or a performer, one often confronts decisions with how to interpret historical and musical vocabularies, and how it leads to our own original voices as artists. Three Korean composers will share their original music and voices. Presenting elements of music with comparisons … Read more

Fred Korematsu Speaks Up

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Authors Stan Yogi and Laura Atkins will discuss their book for young students, Fred Korematsu Speaks Up, the first publication in the Fighting For Justice series. Inspired by the award-winning book for adults Wherever There’s a Fight, the Fighting for Justice series introduces young readers to real-life heroes and heroines of social progress. In Yogi … Read more

The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in a Digital Age

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The Labor of Care: Filipina Migrants and Transnational Families in a Digital Age (University of Illinois Press, Spring 2018) is anchored in the experiences and lives of Filipina migrants and their families in the Philippines and the main objective of this book is to make visible all of the forms, roles and definitions of social reproductive labor and care work required in the maintenance … Read more

Gentrification and the Future of Work in New York City’s “Chinatowns”

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New York City’s “Chinatowns” are becoming increasingly inhospitable to both long-term residents and recent immigrants from working class backgrounds. Such immense changes in the landscape and intensive re-routings of both people and money can often be traced back to a political crisis—the attacks of September 11, 2001—and an economic crisis—the financial meltdown that peaked in … Read more