Scott Kurashige is an interdisciplinary scholar of race and ethnic studies, currently serving as an adjunct instructor at the University of Washington.

[2] He is author of The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles (2008) and The Fifty-Year Rebellion: How the U.S.

[9] In the Journal of Social History, Sarah Schrank called it “a smart and provocative book” as well as “a necessarily sharp corrective to contemporary celebrations of 21st century Los Angeles as…a beacon of multiculturalism.”[10] In 2011, Kurashige served as co-author to Grace Lee Boggs on the book The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century (University of California Press).

[4] In 2013 Kurashige was removed as head of the program following allegations of bullying after he criticized the school’s treatment of students and faculty of color; he left the University of Michigan in 2014.

[4] From 2014 to 2020, Kurashige taught at the University of Washington Bothell, where he was Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences and Senior Advisor for Faculty Diversity and Initiatives to the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs.