Scott Kurashige

Kurashige grew up in Los Angeles.{{Cite news|date=2000-11-26|title=Multicultural couple finds family histories intertwined|pages=51|work=The Honolulu Advertiser|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/87324308/multicultural-couple-finds-family/|access-date=2021-10-18}} He earned a BA in history with minors in Afro-American studies and economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1990. In 1996, he earned two MAs, in history and Asian American studies, from the University of California, Los Angeles, then his PhD in history, also from UCLA, in 2000.

In July 1999, Kurashige married Emily P. Lawsin in Los Angeles. They had a child in 2014.{{Cite web|last=Mangan|first=Katherine|date=March 28, 2018|title=When Accusations of Incivility Spell Doom for Faculty Members|url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/when-accusations-of-incivility-spell-doom-for-faculty-members/|access-date=2021-10-18|website=Chronicle of Higher Education}}

From 2000 to 2014, Kurashige taught at the University of Michigan, where he was promoted to full professor. In 2008 he published The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles (Princeton University Press),{{Cite journal|last=Park|first=Edward J. W.|date=2009-09-22|title=The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles|url=https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&sw=w&issn=00323195&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CA207944238&sid=googleScholar&linkaccess=abs|journal=Political Science Quarterly|language=English|volume=124|issue=3|pages=586–588|doi=10.1002/j.1538-165X.2009.tb01938.x }}{{Cite journal|last=Friday|first=Chris|date=June 2010|title=Scott Kurashige . The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles . (Politics and Society in Twentieth‐Century America.) Princeton : Princeton University Press . 2008 . Pp. 346. $35.00.|url=https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr.115.3.866|journal=The American Historical Review|volume=115|issue=3|pages=866–867|doi=10.1086/ahr.115.3.866|issn=0002-8762}}{{Cite journal|last=Sears|first=David O.|date=March 2010|title=The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles. By Scott Kurashige. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. 368p. 24.00 paper.|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/abs/shifting-grounds-of-race-black-and-japanese-americans-in-the-making-of-multiethnic-los-angeles-by-scott-kurashige-princeton-nj-princeton-university-press-2007-368p-3850-cloth-2995-paper-newark-a-history-of-race-rights-and-riots-in-america-by-kevin-mumford-new-york-new-york-university-press-2007-336p-4500-cloth-2400-paper/41664BC26CF76293D00F5B752BAEA228|journal=Perspectives on Politics|language=en|volume=8|issue=1|pages=363–366|doi=10.1017/S1537592709993100|s2cid=216558333 |issn=1541-0986}}{{Cite journal|last=Whitaker|first=Matthew C.|date=2010-12-22|title=The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles|url=https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&sw=w&issn=00182370&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CA245541003&sid=googleScholar&linkaccess=abs|journal=The Historian|language=English|volume=72|issue=4|pages=933–935|doi=10.1111/j.1540-6563.2010.00281_19.x |s2cid=145015101 }} a study of 20th century Los Angeles focusing on the relationships (sometimes collaborative, sometimes conflictual) between African Americans and Japanese Americans as they struggled to advance in a city that prided itself on whiteness. He looks at factors like race, economics and foreign policy to map the transformation of Los Angeles from a white city to a global one.{{Cite journal|last=Putman|first=John|date=2009|editor-last=Kurashige|editor-first=Scott|title=White, Black, and Yellow: Rethinking Multiethnic Los Angeles|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40210988|journal=Reviews in American History|volume=37|issue=1|pages=110–116|doi=10.1353/rah.0.0075 |jstor=40210988 |s2cid=143566878 |issn=0048-7511}} In the Journal of Social History, Sarah Schrank called it “a smart and provocative book” as well as “a necessarily sharp corrective to contemporary celebrations of 21st century Los Angeles as…a beacon of multiculturalism.”{{Cite journal|last=Schrank|first=Sarah|date=2010|title=Review of The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20685450|journal=Journal of Social History|volume=43|issue=3|pages=776–778|doi=10.1353/jsh.0.0295 |jstor=20685450 |s2cid=142173782 |issn=0022-4529}}

In 2011, Kurashige served as co-author to Grace Lee Boggs on the book The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century (University of California Press).{{Cite journal|last=Ware|first=Molly|date=2012|title=The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the 21st Century By Grace Lee Boggs with Scott Kurashige|url=http://cedar.wwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1167&context=jec|journal=Journal of Educational Controversy|volume=6|issue=1}}{{Cite journal|last=Nolet|first=Victor|date=2012-01-01|title=The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century By Grace Lee Boggs with Scott Kurashige|url=https://cedar.wwu.edu/jec/vol6/iss1/30|journal=Journal of Educational Controversy|volume=6|issue=1|issn=1935-7699}} The book looks back on Boggs' life as well as forward, offering a hopeful view of activism for the 21st century.

With Lawsin, Kurashige helped develop the program in Asian/Pacific Islander American studies at Michigan.

In 2013 Kurashige was removed as head of the program after he criticized the school’s treatment of students and faculty of color. He left the University of Michigan in 2014. In 2016, he and Lawsin brought a discrimination and later defamation suit against the university with Kurashige alleging he was forced out and Lawsin alleging she was punished after taking medical leave to care for their infant.

From 2014 to 2020, Kurashige taught at the University of Washington Bothell, where he was Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences and Senior Advisor for Faculty Diversity and Initiatives to the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. In 2017 he published The Fifty-Year Rebellion: How the U.S. Political Crisis Began in Detroit (University of California Press).{{Cite journal|last=Doody|first=Colleen|date=2018|title=The Fifty-Year Rebellion: How the U.S. Political Crisis Began in Detroit by Scott Kurashige (review)|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/779255|journal=Michigan Historical Review|volume=44|issue=1|pages=120–121|doi=10.1353/mhr.2018.0011|issn=2327-9672}} In it he argues that transformations in Detroit, particularly a neoliberal backlash to the 1967 unrest, anticipated the same trends in the United States more broadly, trends he argues led to the election of Donald Trump in 2016.

In 2019-2020, Kurashige was president of the American Studies Association.{{Cite web|title=2019-2020 President Scott Kurashige {{!}} ASA|url=https://theasa.net/node/6420|access-date=2021-10-18|website=theasa.net}} In 2020, he joined Texas Christian University as Professor and Chair of Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies, serving in this role until 2022.{{Cite web|date=August 12, 2020|title=School of Interdisciplinary Studies {{!}} Welcome Back From Dr. Scott Kurashige|url=https://sis.tcu.edu/welcome-back-from-dr-scott-kurashige/|access-date=2021-12-21|website=sis.tcu.edu}}

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• [https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/detroit-place-and-space-begin-anew/ Excerpt] from The Next American Revolution in The Nation

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