Asian American Studies

Emi Sawada will read canonical histories of diaspora and labor migration against the grain to demonstrate how contemporary artist Meera Desai and her collaborators challenge the conditions of a US empire that thrives on the production of ghost mothers—figures who comprise neither human nor nonhuman beings but are crucial to the expansion of the imperial projects.

Dr. Robin D.G. Kelley, Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in US History at the University of California, Los Angeles, is the author of several books including Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times (2012) and Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination (2002).

27 February, 2024, 12:15 PM 22 Education Building Dr. Allyson Tintiangco-Cubales is an award-winning distinguished professor in the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University. Since 2000, she’s taught Asian American Studies focusing on Filipina/x/o (American) Studies, women studies, and courses focused on the praxis of Ethnic Studies pedagogy.