Metro Region: Los Angeles

Member Since: 2022

Nadia Y. Kim is Professor of Sociology at Texas A&M 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 with Stanford Press – “Imperial Citizens: Koreans and Race from Seoul to LA” (2008) and “Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA” (2021)–, co-edited “Disciplinary Futures: Sociology in Conversation with American, Ethnic & Indigenous Studies” (NYU, 2023) & wrote 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 has appeared (inter)nationally on National Public Radio, Southern California Public Radio, Red Table Talk, Radio Korea, and in The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The Korea Times, NYLON Magazine, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.