Dr. Nitasha Sharma, Northwestern University, Professor of African American Studies and Asian American Studies will engage in a discussion of her new book, "Hawai'i is my Haven: Race and Indigeneity in the Black Pacific." This ethnography is based on a decade of fieldwork including interviews with 60 people of African descent in the islands, including Black Hawaiians, Black Japanese, and African American transplants from the continental U.S. Two questions frame this project: What does the Pacific offer people of African descent? And how does the racial lens of African Americans illuminate inequalities, including antiBlack racism, in the islands?