Shanshan Lan

I am a fourth year Ph. D. student in cultural anthropology. I received an M.A. in English Literature from Zhongshan University in China in 1998. My research interests are:race and ethnicity, with a special focus on the racialization experience of Asian Americans; post-1965 Asian immigration to the United States; globalization and the Asian diaspora in North America; and interethnic relations among minority groups in urban United States, especially among Asian Americans, African Americans and Latinos. I received a Graduate Research Fellowship from the Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for spring 2005. My dissertation title is: Beyond Black and White: Race, Class, and Chinese Americans in Multiracial Chicago. I will explore how class differentiation among Chinese Americans mediates their perception of racial differences in a multiracial working class immigrant community adjacent to Chicago’s Chinatown.

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