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Areas of Interest

• Asian American literature
• Asian Diasporic Studies
• Comparative Ethnic Studies
• Creative Writing
• Postcolonial literature
• Theory

Current Projects

• Black and Asian Comparative Studies
• The African Slave and the Chinese Coolie
• Asian Diasporas of the Americas
• Creative Writing - poetry

Books and Recent Articles

• Republication: “Linking African and Asian in Passing and Passage” (SOULS Journal, 2001) and “Havana Afro-Cubano Movement and the Harlem Renaissance” (SOULS Journal, 1999) In Transnational Blackness: Navigating the Global Color Line (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming 2008)
• The Coolie Speaks: Chinese and Africans of Cuba (Temple University Press, 2007)

• "Julio's Story" and "Girl Back" in Paterson Literary Review, No. 33
• "Coolie, Slave, and Freedom Fighter: Slavery and Liberation, 1847-1898 Cuba" in Revolutionary Connections in Afro-Asian Politics and Culture (Duke University Press, forthcoming)
  
• An Afro-Chinese Caribbean: Cultural Cartographies of Contrariness in the Work of Antonio Chuffat Latour, Margaret Cezair-Thompson, and Patricia Powell" in Caribbean Quarterly 50:2
• "Domestic Terrorism: The Ideology of Division and Power of Naming" in Amerasia Journal
• "Spoken Word and Poetic Consciousness of the 21st Century" in Wasafiri: Journal of Contemporary African, Asian, Black British and Caribbean Literature

• "El Chino" in Gathering of the Tribes Magazine
• "Africans and Asians Breaking Boundaries" Black Issues Book Review
• "Under the Hatches: American Coolie Ships and Narratives of Nineteenth Century Passage" in Amerasia Journal
• "Chinese Coolies and African Slaves" in Journal of Asian American Studies

• "Saturday in Chinatown" in Roots and Flowers (Henry Holt)
• "Linking African and Asian in Passing and Passage" in SOULS: Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society
• The Havana Afro-Cubano Movement and the Harlem Renaissance:
  The Role of the Intellectual in the Formation of Racial and National Identity" in SOULS: Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society

• "Slouching Toward Bethlehem" in LIPS
• "Bridge over Waterloo Pond," in The Paterson Literary Review
• "Sewing By the Piece," "Sunday Afternoon," Saturday in Chinatown" in NuyorAsian Anthology (Temple UP)

• "Choice in Colored Rain" in Identity Lessons (Penguin)
• "Fall of the Bride" and "When Trains Rumble" in The Paterson Literary Review
• "Saturday in Chinatown" and "The Importance of Photographs"
  in The Hawaii Pacific Review
• "Evanescence: Toshiko Akiyoshi and the Art of Jazz" in The Asian Pacific American Journal
• "The Politics of Language in The Narrative of The Life of Frederick Douglass"
  in MELUS (Journal for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature in the U.S.)
• "Sixth Year Under a Blind Moon" in Seattle Review
• "An Affair of Roses" in Georgetown Review

Presentations 2000-2006

• Cornell University, Comparative Race, October 2007, “Arguments of The Paper Chase: The Commodification of Freedom”
• Ohio State University, November 2006 "Building Asian American Studies, East of California"
  
• American Studies Association, October 2006 "The Lessons Before Solidarity"
  
• The Claremont Colleges, Asian American Studies, April 2005 "The Immigrant Story? Early Writings of Asian Migrations to the Americas"
  
• Association of Asian American Studies, Los Angeles, April 2005 "Afro-Asian-Latino Questions: A Cuban Author, Afro-Chinese in Diaspora, Slavery, and Liberation"
  
• University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Asian American Studies and English, March 2005 "The Trap of Freedom and the Legacy of Slavery"
  
• SUNY Binghamton, Fernand Braudel Center, March 2005 "Testimonies of Labor and Systems of Bondage"
  
• SUNY Stony Brook, Asian American Studies, May 2003 "Honoring Loni Ding"
  
• SUNY Binghamton, Fernand Braudel Center, March 2003 "Narrating Transpacific Labor in 19th-21st Centuries"
  
• University of San Francisco, March 2003
  "Globalization in the 19th Century"
• CUNY Hunter, March 2003
  "Theorizing a Coolie Slave Narrative"
• Stanford University & The Future of Minority Studies Project, Oct. 2001
  
• University of the West Indies, Barbados, June 2001
  "Transgressive Imaginings of Chinese Diaspora in the Caribbean"
• UC Berkeley & Asian Pacific Americans in Higher Education, April 2001
  "Globalization and The Closing of Educational Access"
• Association of Asian American Studies, March 2001
  "Patricia Powell and Margaret Cezair-Thompson: Jamaican Novelists Envision a Narrative of Chinese Diaspora"
• UCLA, Feb. 2001
  "Havana Suite: Poetry and Oral History of the Barrio Chino"
• Cornell University, Nov. 2000
  "Havana Suite: Poetry and Oral History of the Barrio Chino"
• Columbia University, Nov. 2000
  "Surviving the Passage: Literary and Historical Accounts of Coolies on Slave Ships"
• New York University, Nov. 2000
  "Asian Diasporas of the Americas: Cultural Formation"
• Columbia University, Sept. 2000
  Roundtable with The Federation of Black Housing Organizations/ Britain
• Association of Asian American Studies, May2000
  "Writing a Narrative of the Chinese Coolies of Cuba: 19th C. Literature of Travel, Voyage, and Testimony"
• SUNY Binghamton Fernand Braudel Center, March 2000
  "Writing Transnational Histories in Poetry and Fiction"
• SUNY Binghamton Creative Writing Program, Feb. 2000
  "Poetry Reading: Imperial Streets"

Recent Courses Taught

• Postcoloniality and Hybridity
• Race as Metaphor
• Literature of Asian Diasporas
• Asian Americas
• Contemporary Asian American and African American Literature: A Comparative Study
• Poetry and Drama: Writing from the Margins

Awards and Appointments

• Freeman Foundation Asian Studies Initiative, 2002
• New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship in Poetry 1999
• Visiting Scholar 2004-2005 at Columbia University's Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race
• Acting Director of Asian and Asian American Studies, Binghamton University

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