The Department of Asian American Studies welcomes Dr. Nayan Shah, Professor of American Studies & Ethnicity and History at the University of Southern California to present his talk "Mutual Aid and Resisting Carceral Power: Asian American Strategies".
Over 140 years, the US government has caged and immobilized Asians to deny and curb their access to "America." This presentation explores their creative strategies of mutual aid and resistance to reveal how the rightless fight unjust conditions and create survival communities.
Nayan Shah is Professor of American Studies & Ethnicity and History at the University of Southern California. He is a historian whose books uncover how people struggle with migration, illness, incarceration, and belonging in the UnitedStates and across the globe. He authorizes two award-winning books: Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown and Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality, and the Law in the North American West. His latest book Refusal to Eat: A Century of Prison Hunger Strikes is the first global history of hunger strikes as a tactic in prisons, conflicts, and protest movements.
