Keynote Address: Reading Race and Gender in Everyday Landscapes
Location
University of the Pacific - DeRosa University Center - Ballroom B
Start Date
9-25-2010 3:00 PM
End Date
9-25-2010 4:00 PM
Presentation Type
Keynote
Description
Mary Lui’s primary research interests include: Asian American history, urban history, women and gender studies, and public history. She is the author of The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City (Princeton University Press, 2005). The 2007 winner of the Best Book Award for History from the Association of Asian American Studies, the book uses a 1909 unsolved murder case to examine race, gender, and interracial sexual relations in the cultural, social and spatial formation of New York City Chinatown from 1870 to 1920.
In her keynote address, Professor Lui will consider how scholars should incorporate examinations of the cultural and spatial formations of the built environment in their work. In particular she will ask how examining the physical landscape around us helps us to understand the built environment as a product of historical social relations. At the same time, she will talk about the ways in which the built environment works to produce, reproduce, and maintain social inequalities and understandings of race, gender, and class.
Disciplines
Gender and Sexuality | Race and Ethnicity | Social and Behavioral Sciences | Sociology
Keynote Address: Reading Race and Gender in Everyday Landscapes
University of the Pacific - DeRosa University Center - Ballroom B
Mary Lui’s primary research interests include: Asian American history, urban history, women and gender studies, and public history. She is the author of The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City (Princeton University Press, 2005). The 2007 winner of the Best Book Award for History from the Association of Asian American Studies, the book uses a 1909 unsolved murder case to examine race, gender, and interracial sexual relations in the cultural, social and spatial formation of New York City Chinatown from 1870 to 1920.
In her keynote address, Professor Lui will consider how scholars should incorporate examinations of the cultural and spatial formations of the built environment in their work. In particular she will ask how examining the physical landscape around us helps us to understand the built environment as a product of historical social relations. At the same time, she will talk about the ways in which the built environment works to produce, reproduce, and maintain social inequalities and understandings of race, gender, and class.
