Meaghan Kozar
Areas of Interest
- African-American Studies
- Asian American Studies
- Critical Race Theory
- Post-Colonial Theory
Biography
As a fifth year PhD student in American Studies, my areas of interest are in locating the intersections between Asian American Studies and African-American Studies as well as Critical Race Theory and Post-Colonial Theory.
Specifically, I am examining the histories of the "Resisters" (a group of Japanese American men--a.k.a. the No No Boys--who resisted the draft while being incarcerated in a Japanese American internment camp) and the Black Panthers. I hope to demonstrate the similarities in methods of resistance of two groups forcibly excluded within an American society. In so doing, I am arguing that locating histories of mutuality is necessary if we are to examine how race in the 21st century continues to isolate and segregate Americans socially and politically. In addition, I will be examining the ways Asian American and African-American representations in film contribute to imagining a space of mutality off the screen.
Currently, I am the Book Review Editor for the "Journal for the Study of Radicalism" and the Program Manager for MSU's Asian Pacific American Studies Research and Leadership Program helping to implement MSU's 1st Annual APA Studies Conference held in Spring 2007. In addition, I teach a writing course for MSU's WRAC department entitled "Women in America" and a writing course for LCC (Lansing Community College) entitled "Literature and Ideas." And finally, I am the proud mother of a 3 year old boy!
