Mohan Ambikaipaker

Mohan Ambikaipaker is an Associate Professor at Tulane University and a social anthropology, communication and cultural studies scholar who studies the dynamics of multiracial societies. His research trajectory is comprised of three strands (U.K., Malaysia and the U.S.) and aims to examine the shifting configurations of racism and racial structures that go beyond bipolar frameworks of analysis (for example, Black-White or Asian-White dynamics). He was formerly a research associate with the Runnymede Trust for Race Relations in the UK and a research fellow at the Centre for Community and Urban Studies (CUCR), Goldsmiths, University of London.

Multi-authored publications

With Robert Berkeley and Omar Khan, What’s New about New Immigrants in 21st Century Britain? York, UK: Runnymede Trust/ Joseph Rowntree, 2006.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

“Music Videos and the ‘War on Terror’ in Britain: Benjamin Zephaniah’s Infrapolitical Blackness in Rong Radio.” Communication, Culture and Critique.

Vol. 9, no. 3 (2016): 341-361.

“Liberal Exceptions: Violent Racism and Routine Antiracist Failure in Britain.” Ethnic and Racial Studies. Vol. 38, no. 12 (2015): 2055-2070.

Failed Asian Values Subjects and Disrupting Neoliberal State Discourse in Malaysia and Singapore.” Journal of Intercultural Studies. Vol. 36, no. 1 (2015): 1-

16.

“Antipolarization Identity Politics in Malaysia: Critical Race Subjects and the Theatre of Leow Puay Tin.” Postcolonial Studies. Vol.16, no. 4 (2013): 340-357.

“Knowing the Natives: Racial Formations and Resistance in Early Colonial Narratives of Malaysia.” Kunapipi: Journal of Post-colonial Writing. Vol. 22, no. 1 (2000): 32-42.