Join us for an online conversation with Professor Neda Maghbouleh, author of The Limits of Whiteness, and Professor Dana Y. Nakano, author of Japanese Americans and the Racial Uniform. The discussion, moderated by BC Sociology Professor Diana Pan, will examine how racial ideologies structure non-white US citizens’ experiences of national belonging.
What is justice and how do we get it? Join Robert L. Hess Scholars Melissa Murray and Russell M. Jeung in conversation as they draw on their personal and professional journeys to address these questions. Melissa Murray, the 2024–25 Robert L. Hess Scholar in Residence, is the Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law […]
At the center of the annual series of lectures is 2025–26 Robert L. Hess Scholar-in-Residence Russell M. Jeung, whose scholarship and activism have shaped national conversations on race, religion, and justice. This spring, Brooklyn College invites the campus community and the public to gather for Hess Week 2026, a powerful three-day series exploring Asian American […]
Celebrate the publication of Aleah N. Ranjitsingh’s edited volume The Asian Caribbean in the Caribbean Diaspora: Essays on Migration, Identity, and Literary and Cultural Representations. The volume expands notions of the Caribbean diaspora to account for the Asian as part of the Caribbean and Caribbean diaspora. Its interdisciplinary chapters center Caribbean people of Chinese, Indian, Japanese and […]