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Cristine Khan

Cristine Khan

PRODiG+ Fellow
Ph.D. The Graduate Center - City University of New York, 2024
Cristine.Khan@stonybrook.edu

Areas of Interest

Race and Ethnicity, Critical Migration Studies, Urban Studies, Cultural Studies, Qualitative Methods

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Bio

My recent dissertation research examines how racialized colonial legacies and global anti-Blackness impact second-generation Indo-Caribbean identity movements in New York and Toronto. I am interested in how racialization processes and hierarchies of race shape immigrant identities and experiences. I also unpack how virtual spaces through social media facilitate transnational conversations about racialized identities for the second generation. My research  has been funded by the Russell Sage Foundationand the Social Science Research Council.

My academic work is embedded in my personal biography growing up in Queens, New York and my work with multiple community organizations centered on Indo-Caribbean communities in South Richmond Hill, Queens. My most recent publication in the Journal of Ethnic and Racial Studies examines intergenerational differences in anti-Black ideologies within the Indo-Caribbean community in New York City. I argue that global anti-Black framings stemming from the colonial period in the Caribbean coupled with anti-Black racism in the US work together to impact how Indo-Caribbeans construct ideas of Blackness. I have also published with Social Identities where I argue that community organizations are pivotal in constructing ethno-racial identities for the second generation. Prior to this research, I published within the field of critical linguistic studies, underscoring how structures of racism and gender discrimination impact English language teaching.

I am also a passionate educator who centers anti-racist and abolitionist pedagogy in my praxis.  I worked for five years as the Program Coordinator for the Teaching and Learning Center where I ran a pilot mentorship program to provide support for BIPOC graduate students as they enter their first year of teaching. I have taught courses at Hunter College and Queens College. Additionally, I was the coordinator and doctoral fellow for the Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies Collaboration Hub at CUNY Graduate Center. My passion for teaching and pedagogy stems from her work with immigrant learners at the NYC Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs. Prior to my career in NYC, I worked for two years as a full-time Instructor at the Institution Universitaria Colombo Americana in Bogota, Colombia. I obtained my Master’s in International Migration and Social Cohesion through a joint Erasmus Mundus program with the University of Amsterdam and my BA in Sociology from Wesleyan University where I was a proud Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow

Selected Publications

  • Tran, Van C. and Cristine Khan. 2024. “Assimilation.” In Oxford Bibliographies Online in African American Studies. Gene Jarrett, Ed. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Khan, Cristine Sabrina. 2023. “Intergenerational Differences on Anti-Blackness in the Indo-Caribbean Community in New York City.” Ethnic and Racial Studies, doi: 10.1080/01419870.2023.2224857
  • Khan, Cristine. 2022. “Searching for Boxes to Check: Constructing Boundaries of Second-Generation Indo-Caribbean Identity through Community Initiatives.” Social Identities, 1–17. doi: 1080/13504630.2022.2148645.
  • Khan, Cristine and Van C. Tran. (2020). Review of Here, There, and Elsewhere: The Making of Immigrant Identities in a Globalized World. Social Forces, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaa116
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