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Claire Jean Kim

Associate Professor, Political Science
School of Social Sciences

Associate Professor, Asian American Studies
School of Humanities

Ph.D., Yale University


B.A., Harvard College

Phone: (949) 824-3192
Fax: (949) 824-8762
Email: cjkim@uci.edu

University of California
3151 Social Science Plaza
Mail Code: 5100
Irvine, CA 92697


Research
Interests
Race and ethnicity, minority politics, social movements, immigration, multiculturalism, intersectionality
   
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