I am an Author, Activist, Public Speaker, and Consultant, who has studied the problem of Anti-Asian Violence for 35 years
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Background
My work is driven by a commitment to transformational leadership with an intersectional focus on race, urbanism, and social justice. I have received major awards for my writing on Black and Asian American history, provided expert commentary for print and electronic media, and delivered over 150 lectures for universities and public institutions.
PhD, UCLA
History, 2000
MA, UCLA
Asian American Studies, 1996; History, 1996
BA, University of Pennsylvania
History with Afro-American Studies & Economics, 1990
Watch the video of Grace Lee Boggs and Scott Kurashige with Amy Goodman on The Nation’s YouTube channel
Publications
The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century, by Grace Lee Boggs with Scott Kurashige
“The book is an infinitely profound meditation on sustainable social change and how to transform our institutions and ourselves.”
—Jean Chen Ho, author of Fiona and Jane
“This groundbreaking book not only represents the best of Grace Lee Boggs, but the best of any radical, visionary thinking in the United States. She reminds us why revolution is not only possible and necessary, but in some places already in the making. The conditions we face under neoliberalism and war do, indeed, mark the end of an era in which the old ideological positions of protest are not really relevant or effective—and this book offers a new way forward.”
—Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams
The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles
Winner of the Albert J. Beveridge Book Prize for best book on the history of the United States, Latin America, or Canada, from 1492 to the present, American Historical Association
Winner of the History Book Award, Association for Asian American Studies
“Scott Kurashige shifts the urban history paradigm in this brilliantly triangulated account of African American and Japanese American resistance to white racism in Los Angeles.”
—Mike Davis, author of City of Quartz