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March 19, 2021
March 18, 2021
"Saying that this violence is not racially motivated is part of a related history of the denial of racism in the Asian American experience." Read more of her comments here.
March 15, 2021
Prof. Catherine Ceniza Choy and ES alumna and Executive Director of EPIC (Empowering Pacific Islander Communities) Tavae Samuelu are panelists on the data disaggregation panel at the 2021 APAICS (Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies) Health Summit on March 11, 2021. The APAICS Health Summit brings together non-profit and corporate leaders, subject matter experts, and local and federally elected officials for bipartisan policy discussions that affect the Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander community and the nation at-large.
March 12, 2021
Prof. Catherine Ceniza Choy was interviewed and quoted in the following San Francisco Chronicle articles about the surge in anti-Asian violence and racism:
San Francisco Chronicle, “‘You’re not Chinese, are you?’ Bay Area health workers describe racism during the pandemic,” by Tatiana Sanchez and Janelle Bitker, March 8, 2021.
Professor Catherine Ceniza Choy Interviewed on CUNY TV’s “Asian American Life” about Filipino Nurses
On March 2, 2021
Prof. Catherine Ceniza Choy was interviewed on CUNY TV’s “Asian American Life” monthly show about Filipino nurses.
It’s been one year since coronavirus was declared a global health emergency, and we’ve seen the unimaginable toll it’s taken on everyone’s lives. Asian American Life pays special tribute to the workers on the front line, including Filipino nurses who are fighting the pandemic.
March 8, 2021
This article about the current Chicanx Graphics Exhibition at the Smithsonian offers well deserved shout outs to our own Ethnic Studies creative artivists, scholars, teachers, and visionaries, Jesús Barraza & Melanie Cervantes. ¡Órale!
March 1, 2021
Melanie Z. Plasencia has been appointed the Cesar Chavez Fellow at Dartmouth College, to begin this summer. This two-year predoctoral to postdoctoral fellowship honors Chavez’s legacy as a social justice organizer; it supports scholars who exemplify the potential for transformative leadership through research, teaching and mentoring. Melanie’s appointment will be housed in Dartmouth’s Program for Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean Studies.
Congratulations!!
Even when it is Stanford, we celebrate. Professor Beth Piatote has been recognized as one of 50 outstanding alums of Stanford’s Native American community in the “Fifty for Fifty” feature to celebrate 50 years of the Native American Cultural Center. Read all about it! https://nacc.stanford.edu/our-community/alumni/saio-50-50
February 24, 2021
Profe Pablo Gonzalez is once again making magic, sharing the first issue of “Digna Rabia: A Digital Journal in Chicana/o/x Studies Vol. 1 Nu.1 Fall 2020.” This is a compilation of works that his two upper-division courses completed this fall. The gifted Jesus Barraza designed the cover and inside there are links to a gallery of work produced in Prof. Gonzalez’s Chicana/o ethnography class where students created visual ethnographies that included the use of augmented reality. In order to see the augmented reality effect, download the Artivive app on your smartphone.
February 17, 2021
The Department of Ethnic Studies is thrilled to announce that Dr. Olivia Chilcote, a member of the San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians, an alum of our Ethnic Studies Ph.D.
January 7, 2021
It is with sincere sadness that we report the passing of Judy Yung, an Ethnic Studies Ph.D., a native of San Francisco’s Chinatown, and a pioneering scholar of Chinese American women’s history. Her many awards include being National Women’s History Month Honoree (2015); the 2007, Annie Soo Spirit Award from Chinese Historical Society of America; and the Lifetime Achievement Award, Association for Asian American Studies in 2006.
December 21, 2020
An event presented alongside the Hearst Museum’s current online exhibit, Cloth that Stretches: Weaving Community Across Time and Space, which explores textiles as a site of identity formation and cultural resilience. Presenters: Beth Piatote Phillip E. Cash Cash Angel Sobotta Sarah Hennessey Julian Ankney Kellen Lewis Kevin Peters Ines Hernandez-Avila Jenny Williams
https://kuula.co/post/7xXdt/collection/7PgvL
A virtual exhibition dedicated to our recent exponential descent into cyberspace featuring sounds and visuals by artists Somaly Son,
ourlastdecember, 8rutus, and PWWWRLiNE.
Congratulations Jackie on this súper dynamic and interactive multimedia exhibit!
November 20, 2020
November 16, 2020
The latest issue of the Journal of Asian American Studies special issue on “Viral Racisms” has been released and it includes so much Berkeley Ethnic Studies brilliance. Ethnic Studies Professor Lok Siu and Ethnic Studies graduate student Claire Chun published their co-written piece “Yellow Peril and Techno-orientalism in the Time of Covid-19: Racialized Contagion, Scientific Espionage, and Techno-Economic Warfare” that we are already teaching in our Intro to Ethni
November 10, 2020
What we knew before the election still holds true: as people of color, as queer and trans- people, as immigrants, as students, teachers, and workers, as poor and working-class people, our power comes not from the State or the government but from working together, from being in community, from building strong alliances across difference to reduce harm and amplify good.
The Ethnic Studies Community is delighted to announce that Corliss Lee, the Main Library’s liaison to Ethnic Studies department is the recipient of this year’s Distinguished Librarian Award. The award recognizes excellence in librarianship, specifically as it furthers the teaching and research missions of the UC Berkeley campus. It is administered by the Berkeley Division of the Librarians Association of the University of California.
November 2, 2020
On the eve of this historic election, Berkeley scholars from around the campus, including several members of our larger Ethnic Studies academic community, are interviewed in this article about what is at stake in the coming election. Terrific contributions by Laura Pérez, Catherine Ceniza Choy, Hatem Bazian, and Patrick Naranjo.
https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/11/02/election-2020-a-referendum-on-racia...
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