LiLi Johnson

Assistant Professor of English and Gender and Women’s Studies at Dalhousie University; author of Technologies of Kinship, which examines how government bureaucracy, photography, digital platforms, and genetic testing shape Asian American kinship and racialization.

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Jan 28, 2026 • 1h 12min

LiLi Johnson, "Technologies of Kinship: Asian American Racialization and the Making of Family" (NYU Press, 2025)

LiLi Johnson, Assistant Professor of English and Gender and Women’s Studies at Dalhousie University, studies how technologies shape Asian American kinship. She explains 'technologies of kinship' from bureaucracy and immigration papers to photos, online profiles, and ancestry tests. Conversations cover paper families, transnational adoption, digital matchmaking and how tech reshapes racial categories and family formation.

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