WEEKLY eNEWSLETTER | MAY 4, 2021 |
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IMAGINING JUSTICE
The Imperative of Repair:
Race, Crime, and Restorative Justice
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CCSRE Faculty Affiliate John Rickford (Linguistics) Elected to National Academy of Sciences |
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Six Stanford faculty are among the newest members of an organization created in 1863 to advise the nation on issues related to science and technology. |
BY STANFORD NEWS SERVICE
Six Stanford University researchers, including CCSRE Faculty Affiliate John Rickford, J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor of Linguistics and the Humanities, are among the 120 newly elected members of the National Academy of Sciences. Scientists are elected to the NAS by their peers.
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2021 Tech and Racial Equity Conference:
Anti-Racist Technologies for a Just Future
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MAY 19-20
Rapidly developing technologies can be an unprecedented force for good, but too often codify and amplify existing forms of racial inequality, discrimination, and bias. This free, online conference brings together researchers, policymakers, technologists, and advocates to address technology’s new threats to racial equity and new tools for a more just future.
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STRENGTH IN SOLIDARITY
25 Years of Education, Research, & Community
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Please join us for an evening of reflection, gratitude,
and community building as we celebrate CCSRE at 25.
JUNE 4, 2021
5p PDT - Main Program
6:30p PDT - AfterWords: A Social Gathering
The Main Program includes the presentation of awards for:
Distinguished Leadership
Community Building
Emerging Scholar
Community Engagement
Distinguished Alumnus/a/x
FEATURING
Presentation of Reaching Towards Warmer Suns, 2020
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RACE IN MEDICINE
Speaker Series
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RACE IN MEDICINE SPEAKER SERIES
Spring '21
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May 5: Anti-Racism Workshop (no speaker)
May 26: TBD
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NEWS & EVENTS OF INTEREST |
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Message from GSB's AAPI Learning Journey Calendar:
This journey of learning and exploration was crowdsourced by members of the Stanford Graduate School of Business community and members of the larger Stanford community. Relying on the wisdom of a diverse set of networks, we have asked for and received multiple contributions that reflect the importance of this topic to our community members. Included in this calendar are links to biographies, opinion pieces, and resources on history, art, poetry, music, and research.
This is a product of our active allyship at the GSB. It isn’t perfect, and it is not an answer to the problems of discrimination faced by the AAPI community. It is simply a way to learn about, and celebrate, our complex and multifaceted AAPI community so that together we can craft a more just society.
We have designed this calendar to be self-paced, and to take ~15 minutes each day to acknowledge and engage with the contributions and challenges of the AAPI community. We think you will agree that the totality of these thirty-one activities is awe inspiring and humbling, and only the beginning of our learning. Join us for this journey of learning and cultural humility. It has the potential to open up your heart and mind to a new understanding of what it means to be AAPI in America.
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CCSRE STAFF | April 22, 2021
Hakone Foundation has opened a new exhibition, “Hakone Gardens and Executive Order 9066” at the Cultural Exchange Center located at 21000 Big Basin Way in Saratoga. The exhibit features an untold story of Hakone’s long-time gardener, James Sasaki, and his American-born family, imprisoned in Topaz, Utah Internment Camp during WWII.
The foundation explains, the Sasakis’ incarceration was the experience of more than 120,000 persons of Japanese descent, two-thirds of them American- born citizens, held at ten camps in desolate areas of the western United States. Along with the Sasaki family’s story of internment, we also share the stories of two of Hakone’s trustees. Reiko Iwanaga tells of her experience as a child interned with her family at Amache, Colorado, and Patti Workman recounts how her mother was incarcerated at Amache and her father at Manzanar, both as teenagers.
“With the surge in anti-Asian violence and xenophobia in America, we felt now was the time to show a chapter in American history that must never be forgotten or repeated," said Ann Waltonsmith, Hakone Foundation chairperson.
The exhibit features photographs of the forced evacuation, scenes of life at Amache and Poston, family memorabilia and rare family photos of “camp”.
One of the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s premier sites and 100 years old, Hakone is one of the old Japanese estate, retreat and gardens in the Western Hemisphere. Hakone has also been on the National Register of Historic Places since 2013.
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MMIW NATIONAL DAY OF AWARENESS
Virtual Run
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The mission of the MMIW Virtual Run is to be in solidarity with Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirits, grieving families, and individuals working on the front lines to end this epidemic of violence against Indigenous people.
The MMIW Virtual event is a race at your own pace and place. You can run, walk, bike, hike; basically, any movement anywhere.
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How People Of Color Can Experience Grief Differently Than White People |
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Marginalized communities are affected by loss in unique and painful ways. Here's how, plus some resources for coping. |
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Rowan Jordan via Getty Images |
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BY ALICA FORNERET | April 12, 2021
My work in the world is dedicated to helping people access grief resources. Recently, I received an email that read, “Why is your site only for people of color? I guess you must grieve differently than an old white woman ... disgusting and racist!”
This question came up many times in the last year, in “nicer” and not-so-nice ways: Why do you think POC
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need different support? Isn’t death the one thing that impacts us universally? Is a Black mother’s grieving really different from another’s? Does a Black man’s death in Minnesota really impact Black people in California that much?
And my response is and will forever be this: Yes, we all share the experience of grief, but people of color can grieve differently. Providing them with unique support is not disgusting and racist ― it is necessary.
These days, collective grief and acts of public mourning are present in our lives from every angle. The amount of shared grief is overflowing within our households, our workplaces, our newsfeeds and our communities, and goes into every inch of public and private life. “Grief is not optional, it is the price of admission,” Michelle Williams, the co-founder and managing director of Being Here, Human, told HuffPost. Read the full story, including resources, here.
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Have news or events to share? |
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We invite news and stories written by and about our CCSRE community—including from faculty, students, staff, alumni, and on and off campus partners—as well as race-centered events to feature in our newsletter and blog.
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