Asian American Studies Spring Lecture Series

Tuesday, February 21 at 4:00 PM to 5:15 PM

DuSable, 246

"African American and Asian American Relations: Historical Snapshots of Racial Discord and Amity" Led by Stanley Arnold, PhD and Taylor Atkins, PhD

Dr. Stanley Arnold is an Associate Professor in History with research interests that are concentrated in two related areas, civil rights movement in the United States from 1920 to 1970 exclusive of the South and the intersection of race and sports in the United States. As a historian, one of his goals is to link the study of the past to the relevance of today. His work in these two principal fields serves to illuminate many aspects of the contemporary American experience.

Professor Taylor Atkins is Distinguished Teaching Professor of History. His research includes modern Japanese and Korean cultural history; ethnomusicology and jazz studies; transnational popular culture; public memory; colonialism; and Bahá’í Faith history. Dr. Atkins has done pioneering work in the interdisciplinary field of “New Jazz Studies,” working to internationalize scholarship on jazz.

Sponsored by Asian American Certificate Program, Academic Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and NIU History Department