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Race and Class in the Air: Asian and Latina Immigrant Women on Environmental (In)Justice and Moral Citizenship
Nadia Kim, Professor of Sociology, Texas A&M University
In our global cities today, immigrants of color are increasingly suffering hyper-pollution and alarming rates of asthma and cancer due to their residence near diesel-spewing shipping ports, freeways, and rail yards, all so that consumers can buy goods at big box stores that hail from China and other far-flung manufacturing nations. Immigrants and other people of color also reside near hazardous industries like oil refineries that prop up the aforementioned goods movement apparatus. Immigrant-led resistance movements against these environmental hazards have grown to be among the most dynamic in our global cities. Nadia Kim chronicles how Asian and Latina immigrant women activists for environmental justice in Los Angeles redefine racism and classism, and place one over the other.
This event is sponsored by the Asian American Research Center, part of the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues.
Co-sponsored by: Center for Race and Gender; Environmental Science, Policy & Management; Latinx Research Center
Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Health Equity in a Post-Covid Era: Pathways for Advocacy, Leadership, and Research
September 22, 2023
Opening Session - Speakers: Michael Lu (UC Berkeley), Winston Wong (NCAPIP), Martina Kamaka (University of Hawaii JABSOM), Lok Siu (UC Berkeley)
Panel 1: AANHPI Health Equity in the COVID Pandemic Era - Panelists: Martina Kamaka [NHPI3R COVID Team], Ninez Ponce (UCLA), Joyce Cheng (Chinese Community Health Resource Center [CCHRC] & Chinese Hospital); Moderator: Ignatius Bau
Panel 2: AANHPI Leadership in a Post-COVID Era - Panelists: Marcus Iwane (Ahahui ‘o nā Kauka/Association of Native Hawaiian Physicians), Nammi Kandula (Northwestern), Mychi Nguyen (Asian Health Services), Winston Tseng (UC Berkeley), Cynthia Choi (Chinese for Affirmative Action); Moderator: Ignatius Bau
Sponsored by the National Council of Asian Pacific Islander Physicians (NCAPIP) and the Asian American Research Center (AARC)
Co-sponsored by Berkeley Public Health
Jovan Scott Lewis, Associate Professor of Geography, UC Berkeley; Reparations Task Force Member
Donald K. Tamaki, Senior Counsel at Minami Tamaki LLP; Reparations Task Force Member
Moderated by: Lok Siu, Chair of the Asian American Research Center and Professor of Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley
04/12/2023
Videos are now available from the fall conference "Diasporic Futures: Sinophobia, Techno-Political Strife, and the Politics of Care," the 30th Anniversary Conference of the founding of the International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas, sponsored by the Asian American Research Center. Videos of the five plenary sessions, including the keynote by Mae Ngai, are available in this playlist
2022
Speakers and presenters:
California Assemblymember Phil Ting
Prof. Khatharya Um
Prof. Lok Siu
Donald K. Tamaki
Aarti Kohli
Bao Vang
Dr. Thu Quach
Grace Pai
Hannah Chea
Jeff Chang
Kate Lee
Jon Osaki
Lilian Galedo
Miya Iwataki
Nkauj Iab Yang
03/16/2022
Speaker: Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California
Respondents:
Leslie Salzinger, Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies Department, UC Berkeley
Rachel Silvey, Richard Charles Lee Director of the Asian Institute and Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto
Moderator: Lok Siu, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies and Chair, Asian American Research Center, UC Berkeley
02/25/2022
Welcome: Carol Christ, Chancellor, UC Berkeley
Moderator: Stephen Small, Director, Institute for the Study of Societal Issues; Professor, African American Studies, UC Berkeley
Speakers:
Victor Rios, Professor, Sociology, UC Santa Barbara
Lisa Lowe, Samuel Knight Professor of American Studies and Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration, Yale University
Troy Duster, Chancellor’s Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley
Michael Omi, Professor Emeritus, Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies, UC Berkeley
10/01/2021
Welcome: Juana María Rodríguez, Professor and Chair, Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley
Moderator: Lok Siu, Associate Professor, Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies, UC Berkeley
Speakers:
Tomás Almaguer, Professor Emeritus, Latina/Latino Studies, San Francisco State University
Gary Okihiro, Visiting Professor, American Studies, Yale University
Nadia Y. Kim, Professor, Sociology and Asian & Asian American Studies, Loyola Marymount University
john a. powell, Director, Othering & Belonging Institute, and Robert D. Haas Chancellor’s Chair in Equity and Inclusion, UC Berkeley
10/01/2021
Welcome: Keith Feldman, Associate Professor, Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley
Moderator: Khatharya Um, Associate Professor, Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies, UC Berkeley
Speakers: Edward Park, Professor and Chair of Asian and Asian American Studies, Loyola Marymount University
Jessica Vasquez-Tokos, Professor, Sociology, University of Oregon
Linda Trinh Vo, Professor, Asian American Studies, UC Irvine
Daniel Woo, American Culture Studies Postdoctoral Fellow in Ethnic Studies, Washington University in St. Louis
Concluding remarks: Howard Winant, Professor, Sociology, UC Santa Barbara
10/01/2021
John Tateishi, Author of "Redress: The Inside Story of Japanese American Reparations"
Charles Henry, Professor Emeritus of African American Studies, UC Berkeley; Author of "Long Overdue: The Politics of Racial Reparations"
Moderator: Michael Omi, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley
04/21/2021
Welcome: Michael Drake, M.D, President of the University of California
Introduction: Stephen Small, Director of the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues and Professor of African American Studies, UC Berkeley
Moderator: Marisa Lagos, correspondent for KQED's California Politics and Government Desk and co-host of "Political Breakdown"
Featured Panelists:
California State Senator Anna Caballero, Senate District 12
Assemblymember David Chiu, Assembly District 17
Assemblymember James C. Ramos, Assembly District 40
California State Senator Nancy Skinner, Senate District 9
04/13/2021
Laura Hyun Yi Kang, Professor, Gender & Sexuality Studies, UC Irvine
Moderated by: Kandice Chuh, Professor, English, American Studies, and Critical Social Psychology, CUNY Graduate Center
Introduction by: Elaine Kim, Professor Emerita, UC Berkeley Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies Program
03/10/2021
Speakers:
Don Mar, Professor Emeritus of Economics, San Francisco State University
Paul Ong, Research Professor at Luskin School of Public Affairs, UCLA
12/10/2020
Featured: Taeku Lee, Professor of Political Science and Law, UC Berkeley
10/23/2020
