Schomburg Center Audio/Video Resources: From Binaries to Bridges: Black Liberation and Model Minority Mutiny

May 18, 2015

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How did racialized notions of criminality become so closely associated with blackness? How did the story of Asian American success and racial uplift become so widely accepted? What is the relationship between the two, and what are the implications for today's racial politics? Join us for an exciting evening exploring Black and Asian American racial formation, featuring William Jelani Cobb, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Institute of African American Studies at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, Connecticut, and Ellen D. Wu, Ph.D., author of The Color of Success: Asian Americans and the Origins of the Model Minority.