Out of Place: Racial-Ethnic Legacies and Migration in Advanced Democracies
Fri 25 Oct
|Shinjuku City
This project presents a threefold typology based in colonial histories and racial-ethnic legacies to explain from where elite and popular views about these issues have come and why they resonate, often in incendiary ways, with these states’ electorates.
Date and Venue
25 Oct 2019, 16:30 – 18:00 GMT+9
Shinjuku City, Japan, 〒169-0051 Tokyo, Shinjuku City, Nishiwaseda, 1-chōme−21−１ 早稲田大学 西早稲田ビルディング
About the Event
Speaker: Dr. Desmond King
Dr. Desmond King holds the Andrew W Mellon Chair of American Government at the University of Oxford, where he is also a Fellow of Nuffield College and St John’s College. He is the author of ten books, nine edited volumes and close to a 100 articles / chapters. Among his influential works are books on US immigration policy such as Making Americans: Immigration, Race and the Origins of the Diverse Democracy (HUP 2000), and The Liberty of Strangers: Making the American Nation (OUP 2005), and on racial inequalities and politics such as Separate and Unequal: African Americans and the US Federal Government (OUP 1995/2007).
Date: 25 October 2019
Time: 16:30–18:00
Venue: Building 19, Room 710 Waseda Campus
Free attendance, no registration required