Claire Jean KimAssociate Professor, Political Science Associate Professor, Asian American Studies |
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Research Interests |
Race and ethnicity, minority politics, social movements, immigration, multiculturalism, intersectionality | |
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Research Abstract |
Claire Jean Kim holds a joint appointment in the Departments of Political Science and Asian American Studies. She also holds a courtesy appointment in African American Studies. She is the author of Bitter Fruit: The Politics of Black-Korean Conflict in New York City (Yale University Press, 2000) which won the American Political Science Association's Ralph Bunche Award for the best book on ethnic and cultural pluralism. From 1999-2000, Kim was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. In Fall 2009, she will be a fellow at the University of California Humanities Research Institute. Her current book project explores the intersections of race, culture, nation, and species in the contemporary U.S. | |
| Publications |
Bitter Fruit: The Politics of Black-Korean Conflict in New York City Yale University Press, 2000 |
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| Last updated | 06/26/2009 | |