Who gets to be an American: Race, fear, and surveillance in domestic policy | Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
Type: Public event

Who gets to be an American: Race, fear, and surveillance in domestic policy

Hosted by NYU Law's Brennan Center for Justice

Speaker

Ann Chih Lin, Sahar Aziz, Vicki B. Gaubeca, Faiza Patel

Date & time

Jun 8, 2022, 1:00-2:00 pm EDT

Location

This is a Virtual Event.

Law enforcement agencies often treat communities of color as inherently suspicious, casting doubt on their American identity and limiting participation in our democracy. This event will dive into the impact on communit­ies of color and present an oppor­tun­ity to learn about efforts to organ­ize and fight back so that every­one is gran­ted the oppor­tun­ity to feel at home on Amer­ican soil.

Speak­ers

  • Sahar Aziz: Exec­ut­ive Director of the Center for Secur­ity, Race and Rights, Rutgers Law School
  • Vicki B. Gaubeca: Director, South­ern Border Communit­ies Coali­tion
  • Ann Chih Lin: Director, Lieber­thal-Rogel Center for Chinese Stud­ies, Univer­sity of Michigan
  • Moder­ator: Faiza Patel: Director, Liberty & National Secur­ity Program, Bren­nan Center

More info / questions

Contact the event host, NYU Law's Brennan Center for Justice, with questions. Details: https://www.brennancenter.org/events/who-gets-be-american-race-fear-and…

Ann Lin

Faculty Expert

Ann Chih Lin

Associate Professor of Public Policy; Director, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies
Lin, a political scientist, studies how people experience policy implementation. Her current work examines racial and ethnic difference in the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic; bias reduction against Muslims; national security scapegoating of immigrant groups; conservatism among immigrants; and subnational labor migration policy.