“Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World”: A Book Talk with Claire Jean Kim

Join UIC’s Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy and co-sponsors Black Studies, Sociology, and Global Asian Studies for an online conversation with UC Irvine Professor Claire Jean Kim about her third book, “Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World,” which provides a theoretically provocative analysis of how we must consider both anti-Blackness and white supremacy — and the articulation of the two forces — in order to understand U.S. racial dynamics and where Asian Americans fit into the racial order.

As Kim articulates, the construction of Asian Americans as not-white but, above all, not Black has determined their positionality for nearly two centuries. How Asian Americans choose to respond to this status will help to define racial politics in the U.S. in the 21st century.

Registration is required.