Patsy for President: Cold War Racial Liberalism and Bridge Feminism During the Vietnam War
Department: Asian American Studies
Date and Time: April 20, 2018 | 12:00 PM-1:30 PMEvent Location: Social Sciences Plaza B, Rm 5206
Event Details
The Jack W. Peltason Center for the Study of Democracy Present:
Patsy for President: Cold War Racial Liberalism and Bridge Feminism During the Vietnam War
by Judy Tzu-Chun Wu
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She received her Ph.D. in U.S. History from Stanford University and previously taught for seventeen years at Ohio State University. She authored Dr. Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards: The Life of a Wartime Celebrity (University of California Press, 2005) and Radicals on the Road: Internationalism, Orientalism, and Feminism During the Vietnam Era (Cornell University Press, 2013). Her current book project, a collaboration with political scientist Gwendolyn Mink, explores the political career of Patsy Takemoto Mink, the first woman of color member of the U.S. House of Representatives and the co-sponsor of Title IX. Wu also co-edited Women’s America: Refocusing the Past, 8th Edition (Oxford 2015), Gendering the Trans-Pacific World (Brill 2017), and Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies (2012-2017). She also co-edits Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 (Alexander Street Press).