Friday, November 21, 2025 | 6pm to 7:30pm
25 West 43rd Street, Room 1000
between 5th & 6th Avenues, Manhattan
Prof. Aleah Ranjitingh will present her research on Chinese-Caribbean immigrants in the United States, and the ways in which they understand self in terms of race and ethnicity. Centering on identity formation as persons of Chinese descent, but also with a distinct ethnic identity as voluntary immigrants from the Caribbean (Rogers 2001), Prof. Ranjitsingh is interested in interrogating: identity and identification choices in the U.S.; how and if Chinese-Caribbean immigrants understood and experienced anti-Asian hate and discrimination at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic; and if mixed race Chinese immigrants also maneuver mixedness and racial defaults (Barratt and Ranjitsingh 2001).
Research supported by 2023 Betty Lee Sung Research Endowment Award
Purchase Book: bloomsbury.com/us/asian-caribbean-in-the-caribbean-diaspora-9781666968484/
