Check out this beautiful and powerful digital mapping of the George Floyd/BLM murals in Downtown Oakland by Dr. Pablo Gonzalez as part of his Future Histories class. It uses Augmented Reality to imbed interviews and podcasts with some of the artists involved. It is really impactful work that showcases what solidarity and community can look like in our own Bay Area. https://spark.adobe.com/page/Ff8ypziCV0L3w/
Ethnic Studies Professor Lok Siu has co-authored an illuminating comic offering the necessary historical context to understand the Asian American wealth gap. Congratulations on this creative work of public education!
“The Asian American wealth gap, explained in a comic,” by Lok Siu and Jamie Noguchi
https://www.vox.com/identities/22530103/asians-americans-wealth-income-gap-crazy-rich-model-minority
Ethnic Studies Professor and Chair, Juana María Rodríguez has been selected to receive the prestigious Berlin Prize and will be spending the Fall semester in residence at the American Academy in Berlin. The Berlin Prize is awarded annually to American or US-based scholars, writers, composers, and artists who represent the highest standards of excellence in their fields, from the humanities and social sciences to journalism, public policy, fiction, the visual arts, and music composition.
Check out Ethnic Studies Adjunct Associate Professor and documentarian Ray Telles in the San Francisco Chronicle discussing his latest film project “Keeper of the Flame,” about the life of former San Francisco Poet Laureate and long time activist Alejandro Murgia, premiering at the 20th San Francisco Documentary Festival. https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/movies-tv/at-s-f-docfest-keeper-of-the-fire-cele
Congratulations to Ethnic Studies Student Maria Cristina Ortiz, a double major in Ethnic Studies and Political Science for her Center for Race and Gender Undergraduate Research Grant for her project–“Forbidden Fruit: Exposing the Underbelly of Napa’s Wine Industry Through the Exploration of Latinx Immigrant Labor.” Congratulations Cristina! We are all so proud of you and appreciate your commitment to researching this important social issue.
The Department of Ethnic Studies is proud to announce the release of Dr. Hatem Bazian’s newest book Erasing the Human: Collapse of the Postcolonial Worl and the Refugee Immigration Crisis, published by Claritas Books. This impactful new book explores the collapse of the post-colonial world through the lens of Palestine. “Borders and boundaries are creating a refugee-immigration crisis on a mass scale leading to the slow ‘erasure’ of the human through systematic oppression and the ongoing struggle for liberation.
The Special Issue of Trans en las Américas, coedited by Ethnic Studies Prof. Juana María Rodríguez, along with Cole Riski, Claudia Sofía Garriga-López, and Denilson Lopes is now available in Spanish. This translation of this issue was made possible in part by contribution from the LGBTQ Cluster of the Institute for Othering and Belonging.
So exciting to see this powerful interview with Emeriti Professor of Ethnic Studies, Eveyln Nakano Glenn, in the New York Times. She was the first Ethnic Studies faculty for whom I served as a GSI when I was a graduate student. Her scholarship continues to teach and inspire us so much!
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