30282 - Transnational Solidarities for Racial Justice

Description

This panel aims to understand the ideas, structures, and forces shaping transnational solidarity for racial justice. What are the possibilities and challenges for collective solidarity that traverses borders? How are acts of solidarity tied to or inspired by other struggles across space and time? What are the blindspots or pitfalls of solidarity, as well as its emancipatory possibilities? How do class, race, sexuality, citizenship, and geopolitical contexts shape these politics? We invite papers that pursue global and transnational approaches to understanding struggles for racial and ethnic justice. This may include but is not limited to transnational social movements and the ways ideas and tactics have emerged, traveled, and reverberated across global social space. We particularly welcome papers that engage cases and scholars from outside the Global North/North Atlantic.

Sub Unit

• Section on Global and Transnational Sociology / Transnational Solidarities for Racial Justice

Individual Presentations

• Building worker power in supply chains - a North-South comparative analysis - Aabid Firdausi, Johns Hopkins University

• Dual Mobilization: Chinese Progressive Activism in the U.S. at the Intersection of Racial and Diasporic Politics - Yung-Ying Chang, Rutgers University-New Brunswick

• Rethinking Race “Relations”: Understanding the State’s Role in (Re)Constituting Transnational Racial Order - Kristina E. Lee, Northwestern University

• Sharing Milk Tea, Dividing ‘Asians’? Studying Fractured Solidarity of Hong Kongers in the US and Japan - Kennedy Chi-pan Wong, The King's University

• Transnational networks and resource mobilization: The Consolidation of an Afro-descendant agenda in Argentina and Chile - Antonia Mardones Marshall, Universidad de Tarapaca

Session Organizers

• Katherine Jensen, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Zophia Edwards, Johns Hopkins University