Dr. Karl Jacoby, a Professor of American History and a Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University, was a guest on BYUradio’s Constant Wonder. Dr. Jacoby shares insights from his book, “The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire.”

Kevin Fellezs, Associate Professor of Music / African American and African Diaspora Studies, will be celebrating his latest book launch, Listen But Don’t Ask Question: Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar Across the TransPacific, at the Heyman Center for Humanities on Tuesday, Sep. 28.

Dr. Darius V. Echeverría has been featured in a spotlight interview with New Jersey’s Governor’s Hispanic Fellows Program CHPRD (Center For Hispanic Policy Research and Development).

In her interview with Columbia News, Professor Mae Ngai delves into the 19th-century Chinese migration to Anglo-American countries and finds out how those early experiences might explain the racism we see today. In her latest & timely book, The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics (W.W. Norton, 2021), Mae Ngai delves into the 19th-century Chinese migration to Anglo-American countries and finds out how those early experiences might explain the racism we see today.

Aspen Words, in partnership with the Catto Shaw Foundation, is proud to present their 2021 Writers in Residence line-up which includes Professor Marie Myung-Ok Lee. She will give an in-person talk in September.

Professor Deborah Paredez’s collection YEAR OF THE DOG is the winner of the 2020 Writer’s League of Texas Book Award for Poetry!

Why Andrew Yang did an abrupt U-turn on identity politics by Brandon Tensley

“To discuss the role of identity in Yang’s mayoral campaign, I spoke with the Columbia University professor Mae M. Ngai, who focuses on questions of immigration, citizenship and nationalism.”

Columbia professor Claudio Lomnitz featured in the NY Times article “Three New Memoirs Reveal the ‘Vertigo’ of Life in the Diaspora” reviewing his memoir “Nuestra America”

Mae Ngai and David Henry Huang spoke in Issue 3 of Columbia’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences Newsletter, Justice – Equity – Rights, to talk about the impact of COVID-19 on Asian-American communities, including the historical forces that have shaped the “model minority” and “perpetual foreigner” stereotypes; the need for bystander training and intersectional allyship; whether art can catalyze social change; and more.

Mae Ngai is featured in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver in which John Oliver discusses the large and diverse group of people who fall under the term “Asian American”, the history of the model minority stereotype, and why our conversations on the subject need to be better-informed.

CSER faculty member and Sociology Professor Jennifer Lee (a leading expert on immigration, the new second generation, and race relations) reflects on her trajectory through Columbia as both an undergraduate and grad student, as well as a faculty member, on The Dean’s Table Podcast with Fredrick Harris.

Columbia News interviews CSER Media Assistant and Columbia College junior, Shailha Alam, in a Q&A about her work as programming director for Diverso, a student-run nonprofit organization dedicated to changing the face of entertainment by empowering the next generation of underrepresented storytellers.

CSER’s Co-Director, Mae Ngai, has published an article in The Atlantic that details the history of racism in the Asian American experience. Professor Ngai notes, “If we don’t understand the history of Asian exclusion, we cannot understand the racist hatred of the present.”

CSER’s Director of Undergraduate Studies, Deborah Paredez, wrote an article for NPR Music in honor of what would be Selena Quintanilla Perez’s 50the birthday. Professor Paredez also participated in a round table for NPR’s Alt.Latino. Despite dying at the young age of 23, Selena is more popular than ever. Professor Paredez speaks about how to preserve and protect the Mexican singer’s precious legacy.

In the latest Columbia Faculty Snapshot, Marie Myung-Ok Lee speaks about her upcoming novel, The Empire Hero, which touches on Anti-Asian racism. Read more about Marie’s work: https://buff.ly/3upprh6 

The New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers has selected Karl Jacoby (CSER Co-Director) to be a part of its 23rd class of Fellows: 15 talented academics, literary artists, and independent scholars. The Fellows were selected from a pool of 506 applicants from 48 countries. Professor Jacoby will be at the Cullman Center working on a history of the U.S.-Mexico War and the making of the U.S.-Mexico border in Scar of Empire: The American Conquest of Northern Mexico and the Creation of the U.S.-Mexico Border.

Amy Hungerford’s (Executive Vice President for Arts and Sciences) recent statement to A&S faculty and staff highlighted CSER faculty Marie Myung-Ok Lee and Mae Ngai as faculty of color who are actively and publicly working towards an inclusive society against the rise of anti-Asian violence since the emergence of COVID-19. Professor Myung-Ok Lee and Professor Ngai will be panelists in a Columbia event called, We Have to Reimagine: Conversation About Anti-Asian Racism/Violence.

CSER Writer-in-Residence, Marie Myung-Ok Lee has published an article titled, “The U.S. Military’s Long History of Anti-Asian Dehumanization,” in Gen, a publication from Medium about politics, power, and culture. It is about American soldiers bringing back stereotypes that became embedded in American Culture once they returned home.

CSER Adjunct Professor Elizabeth OuYang is quoted in The Washington Post for her work as a civil rights attorney specialized in combatting hate crimes. As schools reopen, OuYang describes how some Asian American families are fearful of sending their children back due to the rise of anti-Asian racism. Parents and kids have shared stories of strangers harassing them, yelling at them to “speak English” or “go back to your home country.” As a result, families in New York City are fearful of children’s solo commutes to school, opting to keep them at home to learn remotely.

OuYang directs an annual hate crime prevention art project for the nonprofit OCA-NY Asian Pacific American Advocates in New York City.

CSER Adjunct Professor Ed Morales has recently published the following articles: For CNN, Morales describes the change to eliminate the use of “alien immigrant” in President Biden’s immigration announcement. He makes reference to CSER Co-Director Mae Ngai’s Impossible Subjects. For The New York Times, Morales writes a playlist to honor the passing of Johnny Pachecho.