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Scott
Kurashige
Associate Professor
U of M Affiliation(s)
Program in American Culture
Asian/Pacific Islander American (A/PIA) Studies
African American Studies
Department of History
Ph.D., UCLA, 2000
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Contact Information:
505 S. State Street, Ann Arbor MI 48109-1045
2757 Haven Hall
Phone: 734.647.3311
Fax: 734.936.1967
Email:
kurashig@umich.edu
Fields of Study: Asian/Pacific American history; U.S. urban history, Los Angeles and Detroit; comparative race and ethnicity.
Secondary Fields of Study: African-American history; social movements; community service-learning.
Department of History Website
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/history/facstaff/facultydetail.asp?ID=84
Publications:
(Selected)
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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