Event

This day-long conference is designed to bring together faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates interested in Asian Americans, and race and ethnicity more broadly. For the past twenty years Asian Americans have experienced the most rapid growth of any ethno-racial population in the United States. Numbering over 22 million, Asian Americans trace their roots to more than 20 countries in East, Southeast, and South Asia. This diversity in origins is matched by tremendous variability in terms of socioeconomic status, religion, geographic location, experiences with discrimination, identity, political orientation, immigrant generation and legal status, and many other factors that are central to understanding Asian Americans’ position in U.S. society. Speakers at this event will address the complexities of Asian American identity, data and methodological innovations, the diversity of the U.S. Asian population, and Asian youth and activism.

Program

Asian American Identity

Dina Okamoto, Indiana University, Bloomington
Zhenchao Qian, Brown University
Tahseen Shams, University of Toronto

Data & Methodological Innovations
Lan Ðoàn, New York University Langone
Dasol Kim, University of Pennsylvania
Zai Liang, University at Albany, SUNY

Diversity of the U.S. Asian Population
Sanjoy Chakravorty, Temple University
Hua-Yu Sebastian Cherng, New York University
Amy Hsin, Queens College, CUNY

Asian Youth & Activism
Kevin Escudero, Brown University
Rachel Kuo, New York University
Diane Wong, Rutgers University, Newark

Sponsored by CSERI, ASAM, and Population Studies Center