CANCELLED: The Chinese Question: Diasporic Histories and Global Politics of Race with Mae Ngai
A (Re)Emergence: Asian American Histories and Futures event
We have made the difficult decision to CANCEL THIS EVENT due to unforeseen circumstances.
The Chinese Question is about the origins of Chinese diasporic communities in the West; the rise of the racist movements and exclusion legislation passed against them; and the struggles of the Chinese emigrants for respect and equal treatment, as well as China itself, in the international community. Chinese exclusion policies across the Anglo-American world showed the importance of domestic racism in the formation of nation-state identities. At another level, they were also integral to the development of the late nineteenth-century ascent of Great Britain and the U.S. as global economic hegemons, as creditors and as colonizers, as nation builders, and as empire builders. Because China was never formally colonized, the Western powers imposed unequal treaties and exclusion laws as instruments of colonialism and containment. Exclusion policies were integral dynamics of colonialism and capitalism; part of a new way of imagining, organizing, and governing the world.
Mae M. Ngai is Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History, and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University.
About the series:
(Re)Emergence: Asian American Histories and Futures, a collaboration between Asian American studies scholars and the Institute for the Humanities, is a series of events committed to interdisciplinary exploration and community engagement. The series brings together filmmakers, creative writers, scholars, and activists to think through diverse Asian American histories and how we might learn from them to shape radically different futures. See the complete list of events at https://myumi.ch/mZ4dE.
The Chinese Question is about the origins of Chinese diasporic communities in the West; the rise of the racist movements and exclusion legislation passed against them; and the struggles of the Chinese emigrants for respect and equal treatment, as well as China itself, in the international community. Chinese exclusion policies across the Anglo-American world showed the importance of domestic racism in the formation of nation-state identities. At another level, they were also integral to the development of the late nineteenth-century ascent of Great Britain and the U.S. as global economic hegemons, as creditors and as colonizers, as nation builders, and as empire builders. Because China was never formally colonized, the Western powers imposed unequal treaties and exclusion laws as instruments of colonialism and containment. Exclusion policies were integral dynamics of colonialism and capitalism; part of a new way of imagining, organizing, and governing the world.
Mae M. Ngai is Lung Family Professor of Asian American Studies and Professor of History, and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University.
About the series:
(Re)Emergence: Asian American Histories and Futures, a collaboration between Asian American studies scholars and the Institute for the Humanities, is a series of events committed to interdisciplinary exploration and community engagement. The series brings together filmmakers, creative writers, scholars, and activists to think through diverse Asian American histories and how we might learn from them to shape radically different futures. See the complete list of events at https://myumi.ch/mZ4dE.
| Building: | Museum of Art |
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| Event Type: | Lecture / Discussion |
| Tags: | History, Humanities, Lecture, Politics |
| Source: | Happening @ Michigan from Institute for the Humanities, Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies Program, Department of American Culture, Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies |
