EASC (OSU) and the Asian Studies Program (Spelman College) present:
History of Race in East Asia
Melvin Barnes, Jr.
The Ohio State University
Ohio Humanities Council
November 6, 2023 (Monday)
4:00 - 5:15pm (in person)
SCI 145 (Spelman College campus)
Abstract: This talk will examine the influence of race in East Asia by examining the significant social, political, and economic influence of race on modern Chinese, Japanese, and Korean history. How race has developed into the numerous social, political, and economic forms that it has taken today will also be discussed.
Biography: Melvin Barnes Jr. is a teacher-scholar specializing in East Asian, Transnational, and African American history. He is currently a program officer at the Ohio Humanities Council. He earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Toledo and his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University. Melvin’s research explores race in East Asia in a transnational context. In 2020, he successfully defended his dissertation, “Revolution & Race: The Chinese Imagination of the African American Freedom Struggle, 1920-1989.”
Contact: Professor Tinaz Pavri, Founding Director, Asian Studies Program, tpavri@spelman.edu
This event is coordinated by the Asian Studies Program and made possible in part by a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant to The Ohio State University East Asian Studies Center.