[UrbanStudiesCircular] 10/19/18 - Talk on "LA’s Asian and Latin@ Immigrant Activists on Politics as Embodied and Emotional"
Please join AAARI for a talk, "We're the New Citizenship": LA’s Asian and Latin@ Immigrant Activists on Politics as Embodied and Emotional, by Nadia Kim, on Friday, October 19, 2018, from 6pm to 8pm, at 25 West 43red Street, 10th Floor, Room 1000, between 5th & 6th Avenues, Manhattan. This talk is free and open to the general public. In recent decades under runaway neoliberalism, “foreignized” and unauthorized immigrants have increasingly made political inroads by way of grassroots community activism and by sidestepping the need for formal political channels and, at times, even dismissing them. By way of nearly four years of ethnographic observation, 49 in-depth interviews, and extensive document analysis, Prof. Nadia Kim focuses on one of these growing Asian and Latin@ immigrant mobilizations, that for Environmental (Health) Justice (and immigration and education justice) in industrial-port Los Angeles. Kim finds that much more than curtailing asthma, the activists see their organizing as battling the ethnoracism and classism that they deem responsible for their varied plights and as the crucible in which they forge their belonging under American nativist racism, now at its apex under President Trump.
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