Fright at the Museum (The American Museum in Britain)

Please note this event has been re-scheduled from May 26 to June 6 Ellen Wu (Indiana University, Bloomington) - This talk places Asian Americans at the center of the intersecting histories of race-making and policy-making in the late-twentieth century United States. Contemporaries saw Asian Americans as an 'overrepresented' (as opposed to 'underrepresented') minority in a double sense: first, as an economically privileged minority racial group that did not need new rights and programs to guarantee equal opportunity, and second, as too successful and therefore a threat to whites. How and why did this racial logic gain traction, and what were its consequences?  The presentation will share preliminary findings as a new way to think about the fundamental importance of Asian Americans and Asia to the recalibration of the nation’s racial order and political alignments in the post-civil rights era. Dr Ellen Wu (Ph.D. University of Chicago) is associate professor of […]

Registration is now open for the Marilynne Robinson Symposium. The full programme and further information, along with the registration link, can be found on the symposium website here: https://robinsonsymposium.wordpress.com/ The day's events will culminate in a roundtable discussion featuring Prof. Bridget Bennett, Prof. Sarah Churchwell, and Prof. Richard King. Places should be booked by June 1st.