All of Us or None – Book Talk 
A Conversation with Dr. Monisha Das Gupta and Dr. Kathy Ferguson

This event is part of the Spring 2025 Colloquium in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies in Collaboration with Ethnic Studies and American Studies.

This event is co-hosted by the UH Center for South Asian Studies and the Department of English.

WHEN: Friday, January 31, 2025
TIME: 12pm – 1:15pm
WHERE: Crawford Hall, Room 115

Dr. Monisha Das Gupta is a professor of ethnic studies and women, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa. 

In All of Us or None, Monisha Das Gupta explores contemporary antideportation activism in the US by migrants and refugees labeled as criminal aliens. These activists resist, what Das Gupta calls, “settler carcerality,” the US’s use of deportation to maintain territorial control against indigenous self-determination. Based on fieldwork in New York, Los Angeles, Long Beach, and Honolulu, Das Gupta highlights how these groups challenge mainstream pathways to citizenship by embracing an abolitionist vision of migration justice. Das Gupta showcases their transformative, dissident politics aimed at dismantling settler structures. 

Books will be available onsite for purchase!