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April 2018 LELAND T. SAITO

University of Southern California (213) 740-3533 851 Downey Way, HSH 314 lsaito@usc.edu Los Angeles, CA 90089 ACADEMIC POSITIONS

8/11-present Associate Professor, USC, Sociology Dept 8/01- 7/11 Associate Professor, USC, Sociology Dept and American Studies & Ethnicity Dept 7/99-7/01 Associate Professor, UCSD, Ethnic Studies Dept and Urban Studies and Planning Program 7/92-7/99 Assistant Professor, UCSD, Ethnic Studies Dept and Urban Studies and Planning Program

EDUCATION

1992 Ph.D. Sociology, UCLA 1989 M.A. Sociology, UCLA 1978 B.A. Sociology, UC Berkeley

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

Race and Ethnic Relations; Asian American Studies; Urban Politics; Community Studies; Urban Sociology; Qualitative Research Methods.

PUBLICATIONS

Books

2009. The Politics of Exclusion: The Failure of Race-Neutral Policies In Urban America. Stanford University Press. (Included in: Eduardo Bonilla-Silva. 2013. “Best Books in the Race Field Since 2000.” Contemporary Sociology 42:1; Co-winner of the 2012 American Sociological Association Section on Asia and Asian America Book Award; Winner of the 2010 Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award from the American Sociological Association Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities; Finalist for the 2010 C. Wright Mills Book Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Honorable Mention for the 2011 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award, Pacific Sociological Association.)

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1998. Race and Politics: Asian Americans, Latinos and Whites in a Los Angeles Suburb. University of Illinois Press. (Winner of the 2000 American Sociological Association Section on Asia and Asian America Book Award.)

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

2018. “Urban Development and the Growth with Equity Framework: The National League Football Stadium in Downtown Los Angeles.” Urban Affairs Review. https://doi-org.libproxy1.usc.edu/10.1177/1078087417751216 | First Published Online, January 9. Print version to follow.

2015. “From Whiteness to Colorblindness in Public Polices: Racial Formation and Urban Development.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 1(1): 37-51. (Invited paper for the journal’s inaugural edition. Journal of the Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities of the American Sociological Association.)

2015. Saito, Leland and Jonathan Truong. “The L.A. Live Community Benefits Agreement: Evaluating the Agreement Results and Shifting Political Power in the City.” Urban Affairs Review 51(2): 263-289. (first published online, March 2014)

2012. “How Low-Income Residents Can Benefit from Urban Development: The LA Live Community Benefits Agreement.” City & Community 11(2):129-150.

2009. “From ‘Blighted’ to ‘Historic’: Race, Economic Development, and Historic Preservation in San Diego, California.” Urban Affairs Review 45(2):166-187.

2008 “African Americans and Historic Preservation in San Diego: The Douglas and Clermont/Coast Hotel. Journal of San Diego History (54)1:15.

2006 “The Political Significance of Race: Asian American and Latino Redistricting Debates in California and New York City.” Racial Transformations : Latinos and Asians Remaking the United States, ed. by Nicholas De Genova. Durham and London: Duke University Press.

2003 “The Politics of Race and Redistricting in California, 2000-2002.” RemappingAsian American History, ed. by Sucheng Chan. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press.

2003 “Reclamation and Preservation: The San Diego Chinese Mission, 1927 to 1996.” The Journal of San Diego History. 49(1):1-20.

2002 "The Sedimentation of Political Inequality: Charter Revision and Redistricting in New York City's Chinatown, 1989-1991. UCLA Asian Pacific American Law Journal

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8(1):123-145.

2001 Asian Americans and Multiracial Political Coalitions: New York City's Chinatown and

Redistricting, 1990-1991." Asian Americans and Politics: An Exploration, ed. by Gordon H. Chang. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

2001 Geron, Kim, Enrique De La Cruz, Leland Saito, and Jaideep Singh. "Asian Pacific Americans Social Movements and Interest Groups. PS: Political Science and Politics 34(3)619-624.

2001 "Asian Pacific Americans and Redistricting Challenges in 2001." National AsianPacific American Political Almanac 2001-02, ed. by Don T. Nakanishi and James S. Lai. Los Angeles: UCLA Asian American Studies Center.

Reprinted in: Asian American Politics: Law, Participation, and Policy, ed. by Don T. Nakanishi and James S. Lai. U.S.: Roman and Littlefield Publishers. 2003.

2000 Saito, Leland and Edward Park. "Multiracial Collaborations and Coalitions." The State of Asian Pacific Americans: Transforming Race Relations, ed. by Paul Ong. Los Angeles: LEAP/UCLA Asian Pacific American Public Policy Institute.

1998 Beyond Numbers: Asian American and Latino Politics in Los Angeles' San Gabriel

Valley." Racial and Ethnic Politics in California, edited by Michael Preston, Bruce Cain, and Sandra Bass. Berkeley: Institute of Governmental Studies, UC Berkeley.

Reprinted in: California Politics & Policy October:29-42. 1998.

1994 Saito, Leland and John Horton. "The New Chinese Immigration and the Rise of Asian American Politics in Monterey Park, California." The New Asian Immigration in Los Angeles and Global Restructuring, edited by Paul Ong, Edna Bonacich, and Lucie Cheng. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

1993 "Contrasting Patterns of Adaptation: Japanese Americans and Chinese Immigrants in Monterey Park." Bearing Dreams, Shaping Visions: Asian Pacific American Perspectives, edited by Linda Revilla, Shawn Wong, and Gail Nomura. Pullman, WA: Washington State University Press.

1993 "Asian Americans and Latinos in San Gabriel Valley, California: Ethnic Political Cooperation and Redistricting 1990-91." Amerasia Journal 19:55-68.

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Reprinted in: Los Angeles—Struggles toward Multiethnic Community, edited by Edward Chang and Russell Leong. Seattle: University of Washington Press. 1994.

Reprinted in: National Asian Pacific American Political Almanac 1998-99, edited by Don T. Nakanishi, James S. Lai, and Glenn Omatsu. Los Angeles: UCLA Asian American Studies Center. 1998.

Reprinted in: Asian Americans: Experiences and Perspectives, edited by Timothy Fong and Larry Shinagawa. New Jersey: Prentice Hall. 2000.

1989 (published in 1992) "Japanese Americans and the New Chinese Immigrants: The Politics of Adaptation." California Sociologist 12:195-211.

Reprinted in: In Asian American Interethnic Relations and Politics, Volume 5 of the series Asians in America: The Peoples of East, Southeast, and South Asia in American Life and Culture, edited by Franklin Ng. Hamden, CT: Garland Publishing. 1998.

Revised and reprinted: “The Politics of Adaptation and the 'Good Immigrant': Japanese Americans and the New Chinese Immigrants." Asian and Latino Immigrants in a Restructuring Economy: The Metamorphosis of Southern California, ed. by Marta Lopez-Garza and David R. Diaz. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2001.

Book Reviews

2012 How Racism Takes Place, by George Lipsitz, 2011. Journal of American History. 99(2) 683-684.

2001 Ethnic Peace in the American City: Building Community in Los Angeles and Beyond, by Edward T. Chang and Jeannette Diaz-Veizades, 1999. Journal of Asian American Studies 4(1)77-80.

1998 Nisei/Sansei: Shifting Japanese American Identities and Politics, by Jere Takahashi. 1997. Contemporary Sociology. 27:580-581. 1996 Asian and Pacific Islanders in the United States, by Barringer, Herbert R., Robert W. Gardner, and Michael J. Levin. 1993. Journal of American Ethnic History. Winter: 113-114.

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Other Writings

2009 “Race and Voting in the 32nd Congressional District.” Opinion piece in the San Gabriel Valley Tribune newspaper. May 17.

2007 “Economic Redevelopment and the Community Benefits Program: A Case Study of the L.A. Live Project, A Los Angeles Sports and Entertainment District.” Working paper, USC Lusk Center for Real Estate.

WORK IN PROGRESS

Saito, Leland. “The Politics of Race and Development in Downtown Los Angeles.” Book manuscript.

AWARDS AND GRANTS

2014-2015 Haynes Foundation Faculty Fellowship

2014-2015 University of Southern California Lusk Center for Real Estate Research Grant

2012, 2013 University of Southern California, Program for Environmental and Regional Equity Research Grants

2009-2010 University of Southern California Mellon Mentoring Award for mentoring undergraduate students. 2007-2008 University of Southern California Provost Initiative on Immigration and Integration Grant

2006-2007 University of Southern California Lusk Center for Real Estate Research Grant

2004-2005 Haynes Foundation Research Grant

2000-2001 The University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States Grant

1999-2000 UCSD Civic Collaborative Grant

1998-1999 Mott Foundation Grant through Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics

1995-1996 UCLA Institute of American Cultures Interethnic Postdoctoral Fellowship

1994 California Policy Seminar Grant

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1991 Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in the Humanities

1990 UCLA Institute of American Cultures Fellowship

1989-92 American Sociological Association Minority Fellowship

1987 UCLA University Fellowship

PRESENTATIONS (since 1995)

2017 “Urban Development and the Politics of Race and Space in Southern California.” Invited speaker, University of California, Los Angeles, Sociology Department Race & Ethnicity Working Group.

2014 “From Whiteness to Colorblind Public Polices: Racial Formation and Urban Development.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association.

2013 “The Roots of Multiracial Political Alliances in the San Gabriel Valley, California.” Invited speaker, Los Angeles Chinatown Museum.

2013 “Unions, Community Organizations, and Community Benefits Agreements: Comparing Los Angeles and New York City.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association.

2012 Invited Discussant, The Politics of Race and Place Workshop, University of California, San Diego. Sponsored by the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies and the Department of Political Science.

2012 “Race-Neutral Public Policies: Why the Policies Failed in San Diego and New York City and Succeeded in Los Angeles.” Invited speaker, University of California, Irvine, Sociology Department.

2011 “Race-Neutral Public Policies and Racial Formation in the United States.” Invited speaker, Second Generation & Racial Boundaries Workshop, Cornell University.

2010 “Development, Politics, and a Community Benefits Agreement in Los Angeles.” Paper presented at the Critical Ethnic Studies Conference, University of California,

Riverside.

2009 “Redistricting and Citizen Commissions.” Invited speaker, Redistricting California Conference. Sponsored by (partial list): Asian Pacific American Legal Center, California Common Cause, California NAACP, League of Women Voters of

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California, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

2009 Invited Panelist, Author-meets-critics panel. Min Zhou. 2009. Contemporary Chinese America: Immigration, Ethnicity, and Community Transformation. UCLA SociologyDepartment Immigration Group, East Asian Library, and the Asian American StudiesDepartment.

2009 “Asian Americans and Redistricting: Lessons from Los Angeles, San Diego, andNew York City.” Invited speaker, Advancing Justice Conference. Organized by the Asian American Institute (Chicago), Asian American Justice Center

(Washington, D.C.), Asian Law Caucus (San Francisco), and Asian Pacific American Legal Center (Los Angeles).

2009 “Latin American Immigrants and Political Activism in Los Angeles.” Paper presentedat the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association.

2009 “Rise of Political Power Among Immigrants, Racial Minorities, and UnionsIn Los Angeles.” Paper presented at the Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium Conference, University of California, Riverside.

2007 “Economic Redevelopment and the Community Benefits Program in Los Angeles: A Case Study of Political Mobilization among Immigrants and Labor Organizations.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association.

2006 “Immigrants and Race in the City Center: Claims for Community and Space in San Diego and Los Angeles.” Invited speaker, conference on “Ethno-Spatial Diffusion and Local Governance in the United States.” Committee for the Study of Ethnicity, Race and Immigration in the United States, Cornell University.

2005. “Politics of Historic Preservation.” Invited speaker, conference on Strategies for the Preservation of Little Tokyo as an Historic Heritage Community.” Los Angeles.

2005 “Asian Immigrants, Asian Americans, and the ‘American Dilemma’ of the Twenty-First Century.” Invited speaker, conference on Immigrant Political Incorporation. Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University.

2004 Attorney General of California, Bill Lockyer, “Project California.” Invited speaker, panel with Ken Starr, Luis Valdez, and D.J. Waldie. California State University, Los Angeles.

2004 “Contesting History and Economic Development: Chinese Americans, African Americans, and Whites in San Diego.” Invited speaker, colloquium on Racial and Ethnic Conflict in American Life. University of California, San Diego. Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity.

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2004 “Asian Americans and Racism.” Invited speaker, Social Justice and Social Science Symposium in Honor of Joe R. Feagin. University of Illinois, Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society.

2004 “Asian Americans and Latinos: Conflict and Alliances around Redistricting in California, 2000-2002.” Invited speaker. Paper presented at the UCLA Asian Pacific American Law Journal conference, “Securing a Foothold: Citizenship and Alienation Within the Homeland.

2003 “Electoral Politics, Race, and Democracy.” Invited speaker, Michi Weglyn Lecture. California Polytechnic University, Pomona.

2003 “Race and Economic Redevelopment in Downtown San Diego: The Case of Asian Americans and African Americans.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association.

2003 “The Politics of Race and Redistricting in California, 2000-2002.” Invited speaker, Nation of Immigrants Conference, Institute of Government Studies, UC Berkeley.

2003 “Redistricting in California: 200-2002: MALDEF versus the Latino State Legislators.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies.

2003 “Redistricting in California and New York City.” Paper presented at the UCLA Asian Pacific American Research Roundtable.

2002 Invited discussant, session on “Intergroup Comparisons and Relations,” Social Science Research Council Workshop on Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity.

2001 “The Sedimentation of Political Inequality: Charter Reform and Redistricting in New York City’s Chinatown.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association.

2000 "Asian Americans and Multiracial Coalitions: 'White' or 'Brown' in New York City's Chinatown. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian American Studies.

2000 "Asian Americans and Multiracial Coalitions." Invited speaker. Paper presented at Oberlin College.

1999 "Race, Economic Development, and Politics in Monterey Park, California." Invited speaker. Paper presented at Pomona College.

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1999 "Contesting Urban Space, Housing, and Politics: Asian Americans in New York's Chinatown and the Lower East Side." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian American Studies.

1999 “Monterey Park and Asian American Politics.” Invited speaker,“America’s ‘Chinatowns’ Approaching the 21st Century: Constructing Politicaland Ethnic Identities. Museum of Chinese in the Americas, New York City.

1998 "Constructing Race and Politics in a Multiracial Community." Paper presented at the University of Wisconsin Asian American Studies symposium.

1998 "Electoral Politics and Citizenship: Local and National Narratives of Exclusion in New York City Chinatown and the Lower East Side." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association.

1997 "Contemporary Race Relations in a Multiracial Community." Invited speaker. Paper presented at the California State University, Los Angeles Edmund G. Brown Institute of Public Affairs Conference: "Communities in Transition."

1997 "The Politics of Representation and Race: Crafting City Council Districts in New York's Chinatown and Lower East Side, 1990-1991." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association.

1997 "Negotiating Race, Representation, and Geography: New York City Council Districts, 1990-1991." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian American Studies.

1997 “Boyle Heights: Latinos and Asian Americans.” Invited speaker. Paper presented at the Getty Research Institute Community Forum, “Mapping Boyle Heights.”

1996 "Race and Politics: A Synthesis of Panethnicity Theory and Research Mobilization Theory." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association.

1996 "Towards a Theory of Constructed Ethnic Identities and Political Coalitions." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Association of Chicano Studies.

1996 "Constructing Racial Identities and Political Alliances: Latinos and Asian Americans in Los Angeles County." Invited speaker. Paper presented at the University of Arizona, Mexican American Studies and Research Center, "Renato Rosaldo Lecture Series."

1995 "Public Discourse and Racial Privilege: Whiteness in Monterey Park, California."

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Invited speaker. Paper presented in the University of Southern California Sociology Department's Colloquia Series, "Sociological Research in Southern California."

1995 "Politics in a New Demographic Order: Latinos in Multiracial Communities." Paper presented at the "Latinos in California" conference sponsored by the University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States.

1995 "Reasserting Whiteness: Whites as a Minority in an Asian American and Latino Community in Los Angeles County." Presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS (past and present)

American Sociological Association American Studies Association Association of Asian American Studies National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE (partial list) Selection Committee member, The Robert and Helen Lynd Career Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Sociological Association Section on Community and Urban Sociology, 2017.

Editorial Board Member, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Journal, 2013-present.

Advisory Board member, Social Problems, 2014-2016.

Council member, Section on Asia and Asian America, American Sociological Association, 2010-2013.

Selection Committee member, Outstanding Book Award from the American Sociological Association Section on Asia and Asian America, 2013.

Selection Committee member, Distinguished Contribution to Research Article Award from the American Sociological Association Latina/o Sociology Section, 2012.

Selection Committee member, Graduate Student Paper Award from the American Sociological Association Latina/o Sociology Section, 2012.

Selection Committee member, Outstanding Teaching Award from the American Sociological Association Section on Asia and Asian America, 2012.

Session organizer. “Space, Place, Identity and its Impact on the Asian Diaspora.”

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American Sociological Association Annual Conference, 2011.

Selection Committee member, Oliver Cromwell Cox Book Award from the American Sociological Association Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, 2011.

Selection Committee member, Graduate Student Paper Award from the American Sociological Association Section on Asia and Asian America, 2011. Session organizer. “Ethnic Conflict.” American Sociological Association Annual Conference, 2010. Thematic Session organizer. “Racial Formation: Conflict and Coalition Building in Asian, Latino and African American Communities.” American Sociological Association Annual Conference, 2009.

Selection Committee member, Social Science Book Award, Asian American Studies Association, 2009.

Editorial Board Member. Urban Affairs Review. 2009 – 2011.

Member, Institutional Review Board. Economic Roundtable of Los Angeles. 2008 to 2011. National Advisory Council member, National Fair Housing Alliance, 2005-2008.

Advisory Committee member, Demographic Research Unit, Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California, 2005-2010.

Committee member, Little Tokyo Service Center Planning and Research Committee, 2004-2006.

Selection Committee member, Social Science Book Award, Asian American Studies Association, 2004. Chair, Board of Directors, Southwest Center for Asian Pacific American Law, 2003-2005. Editorial board member, AAPI NEXUS - Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders: Policy, Practice & Community (UCLA Asian American Studies Center), 2002-present.

Consultant, “Beyond the Dream: California and the Rediscovery of America.” Documentary film project produced by Paul Espinosa, Jed Riffe, Emiko Omori, and Lyn Goldfarb. 2001-2005.

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Selection Committee member, American Sociological Association DuBois-Johnson- Frazier Award, 2002-2004.

Executive Committee member, American Political Science Association, Asian Pacific American Caucus, 2001-2002.

Commission member, Lt. Governor, California, Cruz M. Bustamante Commission for One California, 1999-2002.

Consultant, “Cul de Sac: A Suburban War Story.” Documentary film produced by Garrett Scott, 1998-2002.

Advisory Board member, Social Problems, 1999-2002.

Vice Chair, San Diego City Council Redistricting Commission, 2000-2001.

San Diego Police Chief Vehicle Stop Advisory Board member, 2000-2001.

Consultant, Japanese American National Museum project, "Boyle Heights: Neighborhood Sites and Insights." 2000-2001.

Committee member, San Diego City, Asian Pacific Thematic Historic District Advisory Committee, 1996-2001.

Editorial Committee member, 1999 Chinese American Conference (San Diego) Proceedings. Consultant, Japanese American National Museum project, “Common Ground: The Heart of the Community,” 1998.

Selection Committee member, Book Award, Section on Asia and Asian America, American Sociological Association, 1997-1998.

Council member, Section on Asia and Asian America, American Sociological Association, 1996-1998.

Consultant, site ethnographer of the Seattle Northwest Asian American Theatre, Ford Foundation International Artist Exchange Initiative in collaboration with the New England Foundation for the Arts, 1996-1997.

Steering Committee member, Asian American Studies Association, Southern California Regional Conference, UCSD, 1996.

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Member, San Diego Mesa College Asian Pacific American Studies Planning Committee, 1995-1996.

Session organizer, “Constructing Urban Space, Political Districts, and Ethnic Politics.” Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference, 1995.

Consultant, selection committee for company to create a Chinese/Asian Historic District, San Diego Centre City Development Corporation, 1994. Committee member, City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture, Community Cultural Plan Project, 1993-1994.