Gary Y. Okihiro | |
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Academic background | |
Alma mater | Pacific Union College, UCLA |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Columbia University,Cornell University,Yale University |
Main interests | historical methodology and theories of social and historical formations,the history of racism and racial formation in the U.S.,pre-colonial and colonialist economic history,and race and world history |
Website | https://americanstudies.yale.edu/people/gary-okihiro |
Gary Y. Okihiro is an American author and scholar. Currently at Yale, [1] he was a professor of international and public affairs at Columbia University in New York City and the founding director of Columbia's Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race. Okihiro received his Ph.D. from the University of California,Los Angeles in 1976. [2]
Okihiro earned a B.A. in history from Pacific Union College in 1967. [3] He earned his M.A. in history from UCLA in 1972. [4] Okihiro earned his Ph.D. in African History at UCLA in 1976. [4] His dissertation was titled "Hunters,Herders,Cultivators,and Traders:Interaction and Change in the Kgalagadi,Nineteenth Century." [5]
Prior to Yale and Columbia,Okihiro was the director of Asian American Studies at Cornell University. [6] [7] He was recruited to Columbia partially as a result of a 1996 undergraduate student protest calling for an ethnic studies department to provide counterbalance to what was perceived to be a biased pro-Western core curriculum. [8] He received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association for Asian American Studies and the American Studies Association,and is a past president of the Association for Asian American Studies. In 2010,Okihiro received an honorary doctorate from the University of the Ryukyus. [9]
Okihiro is the originator of "social formation theory," which he defines as the forms and processes of power in society to oppress and exploit. By forms,he means the discourses and practices of race,gender,sexuality,class,and nation,and by processes,he refers to the articulations and intersections of those social categories. Power is agency,while oppression is the restriction of agency,and exploitation,the expropriation of land and labor. Okihiro has also proposed a field of study that he calls "Third World studies" from the "Third World curriculum" demanded by students of the Third World Liberation Front in 1968. Third World studies,he contends,is the correct name for the field now known as "ethnic studies." He explains that name switch and some of its consequences in his book,"Third World Studies:Theorizing Liberation" (2016).
Okihiro is the author of twelve books,six of which have won national awards,and dozens of articles on historical methodology and theories of social and historical formations,and the history of racism and racial formation in the U.S.,African pre-colonial economic history,and race and world history. Among his books are:
He has also written on African history, including A Social History of the Bakwena and Peoples of the Kalahari of Southern Africa, 19th Century ( ISBN 0773478396).
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