• Rise in attacks on Asian Americans highlights history of tension and solidarity

    Black and Asian American communities are uniting against racism. However, during this time, there’s also a call to confront divisions between the communities. Vince Schleitwiler, a lecturer in American ethnic studies at the UW, is interviewed.

    04/01/2021 | King 5 News
  • ArtSci Roundup: Fighting Visibility: Unpaid Gendered & Racialized Labor for the UFC, Beverly Guy-Sheftall – Say Her Name: The Urgency of Black Feminism Now, and More

    This week at the UW, attend a book talk for “Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia" and listen to the Jewish Questions podcast.

    03/25/2021 | UW News
  • In the face of hate, Asian Americans call for solidarity with all people of color

    Since the beginning of the year, Asian Americans have come increasingly under violent attack. Elders have been assaulted in Chinatowns across the country, from Oakland to San Francisco to New York City. In late February, Inglemoor High School Japanese teacher Noriko Nasu and her boyfriend were walking through Seattle’s Chinatown-International District and were attacked without provocation. Reuben Deleon, a lecturer in American ethnic studies at the UW, is quoted.

    03/25/2021 | South Seattle Emerald
  • Opinion: Mass shootings are violently rooted in xenophobia

    "The past week carried a heavy tone that continues to add to the incremental accumulation of collective psychological trauma. As news seeped into my digital media feeds, I prepared myself for that cyclical pattern that many of us undergo when we encounter repeated instances of violence. We are made aware of our otherness and, in turn, feel the paranoia that follows," writes Oscar Rosales Castañeda, a lecturer in American ethnic studies at the UW.

    03/24/2021 | Real Change News
  • Opinion: Asian Americans’ economic inequality is violence, too

    "If we can name physical attacks and deaths as racist violence, why can’t we name the system of racial capitalism that produces the economic precarity of living paycheck to paycheck an issue of violence, as well? Much of the mainstream focus on race and racial violence ignores the intersection of class," writes Linh Thủy Nguyễn, assistant professor of American ethnic studies at the UW.

    03/19/2021 | The Seattle Times
  • Opinion: Stand up against anti-Asian hatred, misogyny and violence

    "We are outraged and deeply saddened by the massacre of the eight people in Atlanta. We give our love, support and deep condolences to the victims and their families. We grieve for their loss and for the violence surging against Asian American Pacific Island communities, especially women, who make up 70% of those victimized in the 3,800 hate crimes reported between March 1, 2020, and Feb. 28, 2021," write Connie So, teaching professor of American ethnic studies at the UW; Sutapa Basu of the University of Washington Women’s Center; and Velma Veloria, a former Washington State Representative.

    03/19/2021 | The Seattle Times
  • How white supremacy, racist myths fuel anti-Asian violence

    Assistant professor of American Ethnic Studies, Linh Thủy Nguyễn, is interviewed about the recent wave of violence against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.

    03/19/2021 | UW News
  • "The Spanish School:" Mexican Segregation In Northwest Wyoming

    Felix Mercado looks back on attending what was known as the “Spanish School,” a school that was built in 1936 specifically to segregate Mexican migrants from white people. Gonzalo Guzmán, a predoctoral instructor in American ethnic studies at the UW, is interviewed.

    03/05/2021 | Wyoming Public Media
  • A year with COVID-19: A chronology of how the UW adapted — and responded — to the pandemic

    Take a look back at the last year of the UW's research of and adaptation to the COVID-19 pandemic.

    03/04/2021 | UW News
  • Opinion: Vaccine inequality and structural racist optics

    "In early February, The Seattle Times published a report that provides a preliminary glimpse at who has had access to the first set of COVID-19 vaccines that were doled out. As much as I want to tell myself that this is an incomplete picture and that the first set of vaccines is reflective of a strategy to inoculate first responders and medical personnel, I still feel that the preliminary rollout failed to address a key consideration: namely, the disproportionate impact that the pandemic has had on people of color and economically marginalized folks," writes Oscar Rosales Castañeda, a lecturer in American ethnic studies at the UW.

    03/02/2021 | The South Seattle Emerald
  • Opinion: Preserve the Seattle National Archives and Records Administration to help preserve API history

    Tamiko Nimura (PhD American Ethnic Studies 2004) explains the importance of the Seattle National Archives and Records Administration to the preservation of American Pacific Islander history.

    02/02/2021 | International Examiner
  • New year, same concerns

    "As the first few days of the new year plopped themselves on my calendar, echoes from last year emanated, as if refusing to relinquish its grip on a twisted, telenovela-esque reality," writes Oscar Rosales Castañeda, a lecturer in American ethnic studies at the UW.

    01/27/2021 | Real Change
  • American Ethnic Studies: A futuristic department feeding on past experiences

    The department of American ethnic studies (AES) takes pride in its strong focus on issues of social justice, equality, and civil rights — especially as it pertains to those U.S. groups that have been historically subjected to exclusion and marginalization. 

    01/05/2021 | The Daily
  • The Value of a Non-STEM Major, with Dean Stacey

    College of Arts & Sciences Dean Stacey explains that there is an important civic, political, social, and cultural element to an education and that you can get that in a wide variety of majors.

    01/05/2021
  • After Prison

    UW Tacoma alum Omari Amili speaks with formerly-incarcerated UW alumni and faculty.

    12/01/2020 | UW Magazine