Eric Tang is an Associate Professor in the African and African Diaspora Studies Department. He is the director of the Center for Asian American Studies and the Race, Indigeneity, and Migration major. Tang is the author of the book Unsettled: Cambodian Refugees in the NYC Hyperghetto, which chronicles the lives of Southeast Asian refugees who, beginning in the 1980s, resettled to one of the most vulnerable neighborhoods in New York City. His research has focused on the role that refugee resettlement played in disrupting the Bronx arson epidemic; on Vietnamese American and African American solidarities in post-disaster New Orleans; and on the gentrification-driven displacements of African Americans in Austin. His writings have appeared in a range of academic and general publications including American Quarterly, The Journal of Asian American Studies, Social Text, The Nation, The Washington Post, and The New York Times.
