Jimin Kang

@jiminkanggg

Jimin Kang is an England-based writer. She has previously reported on race and politics in Brazil with Reuters and published essays and fiction in The New York Times, Joyland, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Asymptote Journal, among other publications. Often working between places and languages, she also edits a column on Hong Kong writers in The Oxonian Review.

A scene from the day Princess Isabel abolished slavery in Brazil, 1888.

In Brazil, a Best-Selling Novel Confronts the Brutal Afterlife of Slavery In Brazil, a Best-Selling Novel Confronts the Brutal Afterlife of Slavery

Crooked Plow made Itamar Vieira Junior an essential voice in Brazilian letters.

Oct 25, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Jimin Kang

Two students and a parent, all wearing masks, check into NYU dorms.

International Students Don’t Want to Study in the US Anymore International Students Don’t Want to Study in the US Anymore

And with constant changes in immigration policy keeping them in a state of anxiety during the pandemic, who can blame them?

Oct 27, 2020 / StudentNation / Jimin Kang

What About the International Students?

What About the International Students? What About the International Students?

The coronavirus threw their lives into disarray. Months in, their futures are still uncertain.

Jun 15, 2020 / StudentNation / Jimin Kang

Speak

Princeton Students Are Sitting In for Title IX Reform Princeton Students Are Sitting In for Title IX Reform

In many ways, the sit-in serves as the culmination of student outcry over the university’s treatment of sexual-harassment and assault cases.

May 13, 2019 / StudentNation / Jimin Kang

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