Scott Kurashige

Scott Kurashige is the author or co-author of five books, including The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles (Princeton University Press, 2008, recipient of book awards from the American Historical Association and Association for Asian American Studies), The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century with Grace Lee Boggs (University of California Press, 2011), and American Peril: The Violent History of Anti-Asian Racism (University of California Press, 2026). He is President of the James and Grace Lee Boggs Foundation, previously served as faculty at the University of Michigan, University of Washington Bothell, and TCU, and had fellowships at Harvard and the Smithsonian.