CSER | Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race

Congratulations Shana Redmond for the 2021 Judy Tsou Critical Race Studies Award!

The American Musicological Society (AMS) recognizes Shana Redmond’s Everything Man: The Form and Function of Paul Robeson (Duke University Press, 2020) with the 2021 Judy Tsou Critical Race Studies Award.

POSTPONED Asian American Diasporic Writers series event with Robin Ha and Nicole Chung

The Asian American Diasporic Writers series event with Robin Ha and Nicole Chung originally scheduled for November 10, 2021 has been rescheduled for the 2022 spring semester.

Mapping Historical New York: A Digital Atlas

Watch historians Mae Ngai, Rebecca Kobrin, Wright Kennedy, and collaborators launch Mapping Historical New York: A Digital Atlas: an interactive map that visualizes census data on maps of NYC from 1850 to 1910. Visit the project here.

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Mae Ngai with Eric Foner: The Chinese Question

Watch Eric Foner & Mae Ngai in a conversation about her book, The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics (W.W. Norton, 2021), which explores the intertwined 19th-century stories of the Chinese diaspora, an emerging global economy, & the rise of enduring anti-Chinese racism.

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CSER Alum Amanda Ong wins second in 2021 Bristol Short Story Prize

Amanda Ong’s award-winning story, Sifters, is described as “literature in action – a touching, heartfelt act of memory and care, in this case even before someone we love has left us forever.”

The Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race (CSER) serves as Columbia’s main interdisciplinary space for the study of ethnicity, race and indigeneity and their implications for thinking about culture, power, hierarchy, social identities, and political communities, in the U.S. and around the world.

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