Yale University Sociology Department chair Grace Kao, an expert on Asian American studies, said it was hard to disentangle race from the killings. The shooter had targeted Asian American women, and given how ”Asian American women have been viewed as exotic and feminine objects in U.S. mass media and suspected of prostitution from the earliest U.S. immigration restrictions,” the suspect could easily have viewed Asian American women in the same manner, she said. “If you talk to the average Asian American woman, most of us have been subject to varying degrees of sexual harassment that targets our gender and racial identities,” Kao said. ”They do not exist separately in the lives of individuals.” READ MORE HERE.

Common Dreams features an article co-written by Joe Lowndes (Professor of Political Science at the University of Oregon) and Daniel Martinez HoSang (Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration and American Studies at Yale University) on the ramifications of far-right politics in the wake of Trumpism. They write, “Deferring to the economic and political elites that have set the stage for this carnage will only the embolden the far right to continue to provide a kind of reactionary framing to the feelings of abandonment, isolation and betrayal.” Read more here.

Yale News recently features ER&M Professor Daniel Martinez HoSang and his collaborative work with K-12 teachers and students in New Haven and Connecticut to promote anti-racist teaching. Professor HoSang is currently working with the  Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute and the Anti-Racist Teaching and Learning Collective (ARTLC), a network he co-founded comprised of teachers, students, and youth organizers who are advocating for and advancing anti-racist pedagogy, curriculum, and practice in Connecticut schools. Read more here.

In September, ER&M Professor Daniel Martinez HoSang and ER&M junior Lakshmi Amin participated in a panel on the topic of racism and anti-racism among Asian Americans. Professor Janelle Wong (University of Maryland) and Odette Wang (Yale Alumna) joined them in this important discussion. The panel was organized by the Asian American Cultural Center and can be viewed here.  

As the pandemic, racial unrest, and protests against police brutality crisscrossed the country this past summer, many ER&M students did not watch in idle. Some embarked on meaningful summer opportunities such as interning at non-profit social justice organizations, or finding new ways to connect with and advocate for underrepresented and underserved communities in New Haven, their hometowns, and beyond. This series of posts highlights the summer activities that our inspiring students undertook and features the students’ reflections on their work. This week, Isabella Zhou ER&M’22 shares with the ER&M community her internship experience at CT Mirror, a non-profit digital news site that covers current events in Connecticut. Continue reading →

As the pandemic, racial unrest, and protests against police brutality crisscrossed the country this past summer, many ER&M students did not watch in idle. Some embarked on meaningful summer opportunities such as interning at non-profit social justice organizations, or finding new ways to connect with and advocate for underrepresented and underserved communities in New Haven, their hometowns, and beyond. This series of posts highlights the compelling summer activities that our inspiring students undertook and features the students’ reflections on their work. This week, Isabelle Rhee ER&M’22 shares with the ER&M community her internship experience at the Hawai‘i Appleseed Center for Law and Economic Justice in Honolulu. Continue reading →

As the pandemic, racial unrest, and protests against police brutality crisscrossed the country this past summer, many ER&M students did not watch in idle. Some embarked on meaningful summer opportunities such as interning at non-profit social justice organizations, or finding new ways to connect with and advocate for underrepresented and underserved communities in New Haven, their hometowns, and beyond. This series of posts highlights the compelling summer activities that our inspiring students undertook and features the students’ reflections on their work. This week, Meghanlata Gupta ER&M’21 shares with the ER&M community her work with Indigenizing the News, a digital magazine that she founded to “create space for Indigenous  peoples to write and share their stories and a space for non-Indigenous peoples to engage with important topics and pursue meaningful forms of allyship.”

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As the pandemic, racial unrest, and protests against police brutality crisscrossed the country this past summer, many ER&M students did not watch in idle. Some embraced meaningful summer opportunities such as interning at non-profit social justice organizations, or finding new ways to connect with and advocate for underrepresented and underserved communities in New Haven, their hometowns, and beyond. This series of posts highlights the compelling summer activities that our inspiring students undertook and features the students’ reflections on their work. This week, Ananya Kumar-Banerjee ER&M’21 shares with the ER&M community her work with the YPEI Creative Writing Workshop, which she helped develop over the summer. Continue reading →

In August, ER&M Lecturer Leah Mirakhor penned a moving op-ed published with the Los Angeles Times about how James Baldwin spoke to immigrants like herself. She writes, “I wouldn’t encounter Baldwin’s searing and impassioned prophecies for another decade — no one in my family had read him, no one in my primary schools had taught his work. But when I finally encountered him after starting college, his words changed my life.”  Read the op-ed here.

ER&M Professor Matthew Frye Jacobson joined Dr. Lisa Coleman, NYU’s Senior Vice President for Global Inclusion and Strategic Innovation, as a part of NYU Summer Reads Program to discuss how race and whiteness historically shape the multiple emergencies that we currently grapple with as a society in the Black Lives Matter era. Check out Professor Jacobson’s talk here.