Anti-Asian American Hate Crimes and U.S. Society

Dr. Nishiyama is an Advisor to the President and Professor of Political Science at Seikei University. He received his Ph.D from Graduate School of Law and Politics, University of Tokyo. He specializes in American politics and comparative politics, and has published many books including Politics of Crime in the United States (Kobundo, 2021, in Japanese), Introduction to American Politics (University of Tokyo Press, 2018, in Japanese), Politics of Immigration in the United States (Chikumashobo, 2016, in Japanese), American Welfare State and Urban Politics: Historical Transition of Urban Liberalism in the United States (University of Tokyo Press, 2008, in Japanese).

Dr. Jeung is a Professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University. He is an author of books and articles on race and religion. He has written Family Sacrifices: The Worldviews and Ethics of Chinese Americans (Oxford University Press, 2019); Mountain Movers: Student Activism and the Emergence of Asian American Studies (UCLA AAS Center, 2019); and At Home in Exile: Finding Jesus Among My Ancestors and Refugee Neighbors (Zondervan, 2016). In March 2020, Dr. Jeung co-founded Stop AAPI Hate with Chinese for Affirmative Action and the Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council. It tracks incidents of COVID-19 discrimination to develop policy interventions and long-term solutions to racism.

Dr. Omi is a Professor Emeritus of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the co-author, with Howard Winant, of Racial Formation in the United States (Third Edition, Routledge,2015), a groundbreaking work that transformed how we understand the social and historical forces that give race its changing meaning over time and place. He is also the co-editor of the recent anthology Japanese American Millennials: Rethinking Generation, Community, and Diversity (Temple University Press, 2019). Professor Omi is a recipient of UC Berkeley’s Distinguished Teaching Award -- an honor bestowed on only 272 Berkeley faculty members since the award’s inception in 1959.