| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Wednesday, October 26, 2022 | 4:00PM - 5:30PM | Online Event, This event took place virtually via Zoom. |
Race and Anti-Racism across the Asia-Pacific
Race and Anti-Racism across the Asia-Pacific event series
Abstract:
What does life in the university cost, and what debts do our disciplines impose as we seek success? How have racism and colonialism shaped our analytical relation to East Asia and how might Black feminist methodologies help us diagnose and dismantle supremacist habits of thought?
Reginald Jackson considered the concepts of debt and reparation in relation to the university, with an historical awareness of postwar and post-civil rights developments between Asian Studies and Ethnic Studies. Reading texts by Moten and Harney, Wynter, Ahmed, against memoirs by Japanologists Keene and Seidensticker, he mapped critical limits and potentials for rethinking the historical stakes of academic expertise and survival. Specifically, by theorizing how whiteness is institutionalized within the university and inhabits disciplinary norms, he discussed methods of reparation through which to redress deadening legacies of racial and gender-based discrimination that continue to deplete our capacity to thrive as creative human beings.
Speaker bio:
Reginald Jackson is Director of the Center for Japanese Studies and Associate Professor of premodern Japanese literature and performance at the University of Michigan. He founded the Japanese Antiracist Pedagogy Project and has published monographs and articles spanning medieval calligraphy to contemporary choreography. A devotion to illustration and guitar complement his scholarship.
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