https://www.nayanshah.org/refusal-to-eat daily 0.75 2022-09-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6134e69c0fcb443025437d4e/1632277023487-4XI97K2FI8PEOI5SI54W/9780520302693.jpg Refusal to Eat - By choosing to hunger strike, a prisoner makes a crisis and, more than that, embodies the crisis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6134e69c0fcb443025437d4e/1632277004094-KTA5JD8SWA1JBGKH1RUF/Suffragette-force-fed.jpg Refusal to Eat - The hunger strike’s battle against inequality drives a wedge into the crisis of states and their uneven enactment of democracy across the century https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6134e69c0fcb443025437d4e/1632276313483-ZEG6SUW61BAHKOATFRMV/unsplash-image-hj8851YEl1s.jpg Refusal to Eat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6134e69c0fcb443025437d4e/1632276714799-R3H2CGFHSF8GXUEG5D7P/Fig8_MurielMacSwiney_Shah.jpg Refusal to Eat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6134e69c0fcb443025437d4e/1632276747194-W5IPOQNYQM15QUDYBZQO/Fig10_TuleLakeRaid_Shah.jpg Refusal to Eat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6134e69c0fcb443025437d4e/1632276787744-F78INWM9K5E0XRKRCAV8/8368966159_8a13da0551_o.jpg Refusal to Eat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6134e69c0fcb443025437d4e/1632278033299-9R182YI9F98FNX9WWA2T/service-pnp-ds-00100-00180r.jpg Refusal to Eat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6134e69c0fcb443025437d4e/1632278603635-26M5F1QE81MM8POBB2YQ/Untitled+design.png Refusal to Eat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6134e69c0fcb443025437d4e/1632278932653-4CTH2Q2I91XJV8445B1U/Woomera_2002.jpg Refusal to Eat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6134e69c0fcb443025437d4e/1633294007472-NMIC64A0UIJPIT9I0Z3Q/120313.KarnesCountyDetentionCenterICE.jpg Refusal to Eat https://www.nayanshah.org/contagious-divides daily 0.75 2021-10-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6134e69c0fcb443025437d4e/1631239248675-UMPD3YZH2V85F7MNRI0M/9780520226296.jpg Contagious Divides Contagious Divides charts the dynamic transformation of representations of Chinese immigrants from medical menace in the nineteenth century to model citizen in the mid-twentieth century. Examining the cultural politics of public health and Chinese immigration in San Francisco, this book looks at the history of racial formation in the U.S. by focusing on the development of public health bureaucracies. Nayan Shah notes how the production of Chinese difference and white, heterosexual norms in public health policy affected social lives, politics, and cultural expression. Public health authorities depicted Chinese immigrants as filthy and diseased, as the carriers of such incurable afflictions as smallpox, syphilis, and bubonic plague. This resulted in the vociferous enforcement of sanitary regulations on the Chinese community. But the authorities did more than demon-ize the Chinese; they also marshaled civic resources that promoted sewer construction, vaccination programs, and public health management. Shah shows how Chinese Americans responded to health regulations and allegations with persuasive political speeches, lawsuits, boycotts, violent protests, and poems. 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Adroitly employing discourses of race and health, these activists argued that Chinese Americans were worthy and deserving of sharing in the resources of American society. https://www.nayanshah.org/home daily 1.0 2022-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6134e69c0fcb443025437d4e/1634233298465-9OMRI7QJC9SNN3UA3HKN/Nayan+Professional+Photo+3+copy.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6134e69c0fcb443025437d4e/1633291911317-IBARJ1ZTARM9WPG0R8IV/9780520302693.jpg Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6134e69c0fcb443025437d4e/1634161908284-B9B0QZY4JER5XJWTDV4G/9780520226296.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6134e69c0fcb443025437d4e/1634161932319-VJSITVZDD3W0S5Q5IFD1/9780520270879.jpg Home https://www.nayanshah.org/stanger-intimacy daily 0.75 2021-10-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6134e69c0fcb443025437d4e/1631239671227-K7TMUWILBEVQM3SQ4B4M/9780520270879.jpg Stanger Intimacy In exploring an array of intimacies between global migrants Nayan Shah illuminates a stunning, transient world of heterogeneous social relations—dignified, collaborative, and illicit. At the same time he demonstrates how the United States and Canada, in collusion with each other, actively sought to exclude and dispossess nonwhite races. Stranger Intimacy reveals the intersections between capitalism, the state's treatment of immigrants, sexual citizenship, and racism in the first half of the twentieth century. https://www.nayanshah.org/projects daily 0.75 2022-09-25 https://www.nayanshah.org/about daily 0.75 2021-10-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6134e69c0fcb443025437d4e/1632276858153-BMTA295LJCG4EFCZ8AU0/Nayan+Professional+Photo+3.jpg About - Nayan Shah Nayan Shah is a historian whose books uncover how people struggle with illness, migration and incarceration in the United States and across the globe from the 19th century to the present. Shah is Professor of American Studies & Ethnicity and History at the University of Southern California. Nayan Shah is the author of three books: Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco’s Chinatown (2001), Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race, Sexuality and the Law in the North American West (2012), and Refusal to Eat: A Century of Prison Hunger Strikes (2022). His research has appeared in American Quarterly, Social Text, GLQ, Amerasia Journal, Frontiers: Journal of Women’s History and Clio (France). His articles cover a broad array of subjects and have been published in volumes on the history of gender, sexuality and empire; pandemics and quarantine; transnational history of science and emotions; empire and intimacy in North America; Asian American art and politics in California; South Asian American diaspora; history of Sexuality; Queer and LGBT Studies, and Law and American Borderlands; and Biopolitics and Citizenship. Shah has received fellowships and grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, Mellon Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, van Humboldt Foundation, Thomas J. Watson Foundation and Freeman Foundation. He was co-editor of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies in 2011-2014. Through his career as a professor, Shah has mentored undergraduate and graduate students who have advanced to a careers as high school history teachers; community college professors; attorneys in labor, immigration, and corporate law; non-profit directors and program coordinators, university community engagement and student services administrators; corporate research and training; and city planners. The PhD students whom he advised are now professors at universities including Tufts University, Drexel University, University of British Columbia, and hold research positions at the Library of Congress. 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