Scott Kurashige is an associate professor of American Culture, History, and Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies at the University of Michigan and currently a visiting scholar at Harvard University’s Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History. He is the author of The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles (Princeton University Press, 2008), which received the American Historical Association’s 2008 Albert J. Beveridge Award “for the best book in English on the history of the United States, Latin America, or Canada from 1492 to the present.” He has twenty years of experience as a grassroots activist and is a board member of the James and Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership based in Detroit, Michigan.

Grace Lee Boggs is a 93-year-old activist, writer, and speaker whose seven decades of political involvement encompass the major U.S. social movements of our time. A daughter of Chinese immigrants born in 1915, Grace received a Ph.D. in philosophy from Bryn Mawr College in 1940 but dedicated herself to movement building. Since 1953, Grace has lived in Detroit, including 40 years engaged in grassroots organizing and political theorizing with her late husband, James Boggs -- an African American labor activist.

Grace’s publications include Living for Change and Revolution and Evolution in the Twentieth Century (with James Boggs). Her blog postings are adapted from her weekly column for the Michigan Citizen newspaper. These columns and other writings/speeches are archived at:

www.boggscenter.org

Boggs’s extended interviews on Bill Moyers Journal and Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now can be found at:

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/08312007/watch2.html

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/1/22/ive_never_had_this_much_hope

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