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Copyright 2001
College of Literature, Science and the Arts
  Scott Kurashige

Associate Professor
Ph.D. UCLA, 2000

Other U of M Affiliation:

Program in American Culture; Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Program

Contact Information:
University of Michigan
2757 Haven Hall
Phone: 734-647-3341
E-mail: kurashig@umich.edu
Field(s) of Study:
Asian American history, U.S. urban history, Los Angeles, Detroit, comparative race and ethnicity, African American history, social movements
Selected Publications:
The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles (Princeton University Press, 2008) in the “Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America” series edited by William Chafe, Gary Gerstle, Linda Gordon, and Julian Zelizer.

“Rethinking Black History in Multiethnic Los Angeles,” Social History 33:1 (forthcoming February 2008).

“Exposing the Price of Ignorance: Teaching Asian American History in Michigan,” Journal of American History (March 2007): 1178-85.

“The Many Facets of Brown: Integration in a Multiracial Society,” Journal of American History 91: 1 (June 2004): 56-68.

“Detroit and the Legacy of Vincent Chin,” Amerasia Journal 28: 3 (2002): 51-55.

"Beyond Random Acts of Violence: Analyzing Urban Patterns of Anti-Asian Violence," Amerasia Journal 26: 1 (2000)

"Pan-ethnicity and Community Organizing: Asian Americans United's Campaign Against Anti-Asian Violence," Journal of Asian American Studies 3:2 (June 2000)

Dissertation: "Transforming Los Angeles: Black and Japanese American Struggles for Racial Equality in the 20th Century," UCLA, 2000.

Current Projects:
Sustainable Activism: Radical Wisdom from a Movement Elder, by Grace Lee Boggs with Scott Kurashige

A History of Japanese Americans in Detroit. This book is based on a community oral history project I initiated with the Detroit chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League.

Neighbors in the ‘Hood: Asian Americans and the Politics of Urban Space. An interdisciplinary study examining Asian American community activism within multiracial contexts in Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and Detroit.

 

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