By Cassady Brockman
Andrew Chan, at podium, shares his research at a recent conference.LEXINGTON, Ky – Andrew Chan has taken the topic of civil rights in the United States and focused his attention on the interaction between two minoritized groups: Black Americans and Asian-Americans.
“We’re trying to reconceptualize a lot of connections between African Americans and Asian Americans,” said Chan, who’s a history major in the University of Kentucky’s College of Arts and Sciences.
According to Chan, this newly developed intersectional field “relies on the idea that there’s a lot of overlap between African American History and Asian American history.”
The intersectionality Chan studies led him to present at the 64th annual meeting of the Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies at UK