Ethnic Studies at Brown

The student coordinators of the Asian American Artist in Residence Initiative are thrilled to announce that the Spring 2023 artist in residence will be Yin Q, in conjunction with Red Canary Song and Kink Out!

Yin Q (they/she) is a Q***r, Chinese American writer/artist/producer, Shamanatrix, and s*x worker rights activist and parent. They are a core member of Red Canary Song, a collective of s*x workers, massage workers, and allies from the Asian diaspora, and founder of Kink Out, a production group of Q***r, leather, art and activism events that center BIPOC. Yin’s media work can be seen in Mercy, Mistress (pilot/Vimeo) and Fly in Power (short video/Youtube), which is being produced as a full length documentary that will screen at Brown during the residency. Their writing can be found in BUST magazine, (Feminist Press), and Q***r Magic, edited by Lee Harington & Tai Fenix Kulystin.

We’re working with Yin and their collaborators to plan a wide range of programs for next semester. Some possibilities include a Lunar New Year celebration; seminars on s*x worker politics and organizing; reading groups and screenings; and workshops on zines, kink, and artistic activism. Everyone is invited to learn and build community with us, and Brown students will be able to engage the residency for independent study credit.

To sign up to receive periodic updates about Spring events and programming, please go to https://tinyurl.com/BAARI-interest.

We’re so excited to welcome Yin and their collaborators to campus!

TODAY @ 6 PM @ DARE 340 Lockwood. Come learn how to Organizing Formerly Incarcerated Power through Worker Owned Cooperatives!

SAVE THE DATE: Artist Talk: Mariana Ramos Ortiz

November 28, 2022 | 6pm | 85 Waterman, rm 130

Join Theater Arts and Performance Studies and American Studies Professors Ivan Ramos and Leticia Alvarado as they host artist Mariana Ramos Ortiz. Ramos Ortiz is an interdisciplinary artist working between San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Providence, Rhode Island. Their work addresses sand as a material of resistance and protection against the United States' ongoing occupation of Puerto Rico. Their recent work articulates relationships between legibility as a remnant of colonialism, play as a tactic for resistance, and how these strategies construct the experience and perceptions of the colonial subject and landscape.

AMST is excited to co-sponsor this event with the CSSJ Human Trafficking Research Cluster and Professor Elena Shih , tomorrow, Friday 3/18 at 2 PM. Join us in this public event as we reflect on the year that has passed since the Atlanta massage murders of 2021. We will be joined by organizers, workers, and artists with Red Canary Song, a grassroots coalition of migrant workers, s*x workers, and allies working with massage workers in Flushing, Queens. Following the talk, guests are invited to interact with a public art installation, “Curtains: A Weak Armor,” created by RCS to reflect on the surveillance, visibility, and practices of community care that define our work.

The event will conclude with interaction with art installation at the List Center Lawn.

https://events.brown.edu/cssj/event/229584-vigil-for-8-lives-lost-with-red-canary-song

Virtual Book Launch Party with Dr. Adrienne Keene 10/27/21. Register below!

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUvfuuqqTkqG9IgnjrLniQiT95XsGsYOJLi

Bob Lee's book makes Vox's essential Anti-Asian racism reading list.

A reading list to understand anti-Asian racism in America Hate crimes against Asian Americans go back centuries. We asked experts which books to read to understand the history.

Our amazing colleague, Evelyn Hu-DeHart writes in a series "Learning the Scholar’s Craft: Reflections of Historians and International Relations Scholars." Be sure to read about Evelyn's inspiring intellectual and personal journey. https://issforum.org/essays/274-hu-dehart

Are you concentrating in Ethnic Studies or American Studies? Are you considering either concentration? Have questions? Want to meet some fellow concentrators? Want to learn about the history of the departments? Come join both the Ethnic Studies and American Studies DUGs for a virtual meet and greet. Come with any questions and ideas for what you'd like to see from the DUGs this year and stay for some Zoom speed dating! All attendees will get a free sticker in the mail!
Time and date: 5pm Sunday, September 27th
Zoom link: https://brown.zoom.us/j/91202570154

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PhD student Thomas Dai in The Brooklyn Rail! This essay began as a class presentation in Professor Alvarado's spring class.

Journey to a “People's War” Some years ago, I stopped in Wuhan on my way to somewhere else. The city looked unremarkable to me, another heavy, Chinese metropolis split in two by a dying river. I remember the owner of my hostel stopping by to take my payment and photocopy my passport. Afterwards, he left for dinner, and I did t...

by American Studies MA student Wen Zhuang!

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Congratulations to Professor Shih!

Presenting the Recipients of the 2020 Howard R. Swearer Engaged Faculty Awards for Research and Teaching | Swearer Center. Brown University. Presenting the Recipients of the 2020 Howard R. Swearer Engaged Faculty Awards for Research and TeachingMay 19, 2020 Brad Brockmann '76, JD, MDiv; Community Partner: RI Department of Corrections - Healthcare Services (left) and Dr. Elena Shih; Community Partner: COYOTE RI (right) This year’s recip...

Check out - and contribute to - this digital archive of undergraduate experiences of the pandemic. This class is seeking submissions of items such as photos, artwork, memes, emails / correspondence etc., as well as written submissions detailing people's lived experiences of the pandemic. They are hoping to include as many undergraduate experiences and perspectives as possible in the archive, so they are trying to cast a wide net in soliciting submissions.

Brown Undergraduate COVID-19 Archives

Woo-hoo! Congrats to Sebastian, an Ethnic Studies concentrator!

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New book from Professor Zipp!!

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Beth Piatote talking about The Beadworkers with Professor Keene!

Today at 4PM!

Thursday, March 5th!

So .... close .... to .... spring.