554 Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley
George P Barganier, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice Studies, SFSU
Black street organizations have a long and complex relationship with Black radical politics. Yet scholarship has overlooked the everyday efforts of the Black youth at the farthest margins of subalternity to decolonize. By employing theories of coloniality, this talk examines the development of Black political consciousness amongst the early generations of the Crips organization and the...
Multicultural Community Center (MLK Student Union), UC Berkeley
341 Dwinelle Hall (DSSEAS Library Level F/G)
Catherine Ceniza Choy
Prof. Catherine Ceniza Choy will present a book chapter-in-progress that seeks to illuminate the less studied experiences of Filipino women's migration and labor through the life history of Apolonia Dangzalan. Her life story exemplifies both the constraints and possibilities of socio-economic mobility for Filipino women in the United States in the first half of the 20th...
554 Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley
Roderick A. Ferguson, University of Chicago at Illinois
Wildavsky Conference Room, ISSI, 2538 Channing Way
Gary Y. Okihiro, Columbia University
Abstract This event will be a conversation with the author about his book, Third World Studies: Theorizing Liberation (Duke 2016). In 1968, the Third World Liberation Front at San Francisco State College demanded the creation of a Third World studies program to counter the existing curricula that ignored issues of power—notably, imperialism and oppression. The administration responded by...
Durham Theater in Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
Sharon Hayes and Mimi Thi Nguyen
554 Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley
Please join the Department of Ethnic Studies for a campus community open house to provide a safe, supportive space, and to facilitate community building and support. ...
November 15, 2016 Warm Greetings, Department of Ethnic Studies Alumni and Friends! We are excited to be part of University of California, Berkeley’s campus-wide BIG GIVE fundraising initiative. Funds can now be directed to departments, programs, and causes that donors wish to support. The BIG GIVE campaign will take place during the upcoming 24-hour period THIS Wednesday, November...
2538 Channing (Inst. for the Study of Societal Issues), Wildavsky Conference Room
Andrew Jolivette, Professor and former Chair, American Indian Studies Department, SFSU
This talk examines how we can approach research from new ways that center collective responsibility and and shared ownership over the research process. In particular Jolivette will review the thinking behind the development of his edited volume, Research Justice: Methodologies for Social Change and the influential work of Dr. Linda Tuhiwai Smith and Dr. Michelle Fine...
554 Barrows Hall
Ethnic Studies Department
Come join us in celebrating our two new additions to the Ethnic Studies Department: Faculty Member Christian Paiz and Native American Studies Librariran Melissa Stoner! Lunch will be provided. ...