Nadia Y. Kim

Nadia Y. Kim is Professor of Asian/Asian American Studies and affiliated faculty in Sociology at Loyola Marymount University. Her research focuses on US race and citizenship injustices concerning Korean/Asian Americans, South Koreans, and Latinx immigrants, and on fights against environmental racism/classism (esp. by women) and on comparative racialization of Latinxs and Asian and Black Americans. Throughout her work, Kim’s approach centers (neo)imperialism, transnationality, and intersectionality. Kim is author of two multi-award-winning books – Imperial Citizens: Koreans and Race from Seoul to LA (Stanford, 2008) and Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA – and of award-winning journal articles on race and assimilation and on racial attitudes. Kim has also organized on issues of immigrant rights, affirmative action, and environmental justice and her work have appeared (inter)nationally on Red Table Talk (MS)NBC News, National Public Radio, Southern California Public Radio, Radio Korea, and in The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Korea Times, NYLON Magazine, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.