FACULTY RESEARCH FELLOW
Chautauqua
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CCSRE Announces Alfredo Artiles (GSE)
as new Faculty Director of Research
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BY PERLITA R. DICOCHEA (CCSRE)
April 19, 2021
Alfredo J. Artiles (GSE), who Dean Dan Schwartz recently named the Lee L. Jacks Professor of Education, will take the helm as CCSRE's new Faculty Director of Research for the 2021/2022 academic year. In this role, Artiles will oversee the Race & Justice Research Initiative, the Race + Tech Initiative, Faculty Research Fellowships, and the Faculty Seminar Series.
"Alfredo Artiles' innovative, interdisciplinary scholarship focuses on how disability intersects with race, gender, social class and language such that they can replicate inequalities. Significantly, his work also offers policy solutions that can provide more educational equity. We are pleased to have him leading our Faculty Research initiatives at the Center," Director Jennifer DeVere Brody said.
Artiles’ scholarship examines paradoxes of educational equity and addresses their consequences. For instance, he studies how disability diagnoses can unwittingly stratify educational opportunities for racial or linguistic minoritized groups and advances models and tools to rectify such inequities. He co-authored the National Research Council’s 2017 report Promoting the Educational Success of Children and Youth Learning English and served on the White House Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics. Current work examines the role of cultural and spatial factors in equity reforms for students of color with/without disabilities.
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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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"We Can't Look Away from the Courts"
CCSRE Faculty Affiliate Matthew Clair
Featured In Public Books
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BY IMANI RADNEY | April 19, 2021
Matthew Clair is assistant professor of sociology at Stanford University, where he also holds a courtesy appointment at Stanford Law School, and an award-winning scholar of inequality in the criminal legal system. His writing has been published in Social Forces, California Law Review, The Nation, Boston Review, and Public Books. Clair’s recent book, Privilege and Punishment: How Race and Class Matter in Criminal Court, explores the relationships between defense attorneys and their clients in the Boston, Massachusetts, courts, revealing how the dynamics of these relationships—suffused with both racial and class-based meanings—beget profoundly unequal consequences. In late January, we discussed the development of the book project, American courtroom culture, and alternatives to our present, unjust legal system.
Imani Radney: The book starts with a striking personal anecdote—your chance encounter with your cousin in a Chicago courtroom—as well as a discussion of how that encounter fundamentally shaped the research. Can you talk about the genesis of the project, and the road that brought you to that courtroom in the first place?
Matthew Clair: The genesis of this project really started in 2013, the summer when George Zimmerman was not convicted of murdering Trayvon Martin.
When I started graduate school at Harvard in 2012, I didn’t know exactly what I was going to study. I knew I wanted to understand and find systemic ways of reducing racial inequality. I thought I might focus on the educational system, maybe the labor market. But watching Trayvon Martin be killed; then watching the justice system excuse and justify that killing; then marching in the streets in Roxbury and other parts of Boston with other people who were similarly motivated; and then of course the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement: all of this really animated my research from the beginning.
So, I started my research in 2013 and its aftermath. I began observing courthouses in the Northeast with Alix Winter, a fellow graduate student and dear friend. We spent most of our time interviewing and talking to people who are empowered in the system: prosecutors, public defenders, judges. But when I began my dissertation research, I started reading more of the literature, thinking more about the data that we had already collected on those who were in power. I wanted to know more about how defendants—those subordinated by the law—view the system, how they strategize in relation to the system, what are their individual and community-level strategies.
Meanwhile, I noticed a surprising number of privileged people—people who would come into court with suits on, with maybe their wealthy parents by their side—and I thought, Who are these relatively privileged people who are also being pulled into the courts? How are their experiences different?
Around this time, I ran into my cousin in court. I was at a conference in Chicago; Alix and I were presenting on some of our work on judges, and how judges think about race and racial inequality. We had adopted a practice: wherever we were visiting, we’d try to visit a local courthouse and see the quality of justice in different areas. Cook County, Illinois, has a notoriously unjust criminal court. We picked a random courthouse and went to it. Read the full story HERE.
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CCSRE Graduate Fellowships & New Ph.D. Minor
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ARTS + JUSTICE WORKSHOP SERIES
Between Fiction and Reality:
Young Adult Literature, Justice, and the Next Generation
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April 19 | 4:30p PST
Since 2000, young adult literature has been a publishing powerhouse, popular with readers across a variety of demographics, but especially designed for the newly recognized category of personhood: the adolescent. Through narratives and characters exploring contemporary adolescence as informed by questions of diversity, race and class-based violence and the legal system, this genre engages their adolescent readers through narratives grounded in the harsh realities of today’s unjust world. Our next Humanities Center Arts + Justice Research Workshop will center these themes by featuring bestselling contemporary YA Lit authors Mark Oshiro (Anger is a Gift) and Dashka Slater (The 57 Bus) alongside Stanford Education Professor Antero Garcia (Critical Foundations in Young Adult Literature) for what promises to be an enlightening conversation on adolescence today, the YA Lit medium, and the justice of tomorrow.
If you need a disability-related accommodation, please contact Devin Garnick at dgarnick@stanford.edu or (650) 497-9905. Requests should be made at least one week in advance of the event.
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CENTERING RACE CONSORTIUM CONFERENCE
RACIAL RECKONINGS & THE FUTURE OF THE HUMANITIES
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APRIL 28 & 29, 2021
The term “reckoning” denotes acts of calculation, estimation and debts paid. It can carry a sense of a future settlements. It also refers to “ideas, opinions and judgments” as in the phrase, “I reckon.” To what extent, and how, might we imagine a racial reckoning via new work in arts and humanities?
The recently formed Centering Race Consortium brings together researchers at four institutions: Brown, Stanford, the University of Chicago and Yale to “center” racial justice in the pursuit of humanistic inquiry. Our work is supported by the Mellon Foundation.
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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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“The books that come up least often”—claimed Bob Hicok, in his 2019 essay “The Promise of American Poetry”—“are by straight white men of any age. The faces of poetry have changed.” With equal parts enthusiasm and melancholy, Hicok observed that, “from winners of major literary prizes in recent years to Amazon’s ‘Customers Who Bought This Book Also Bought’ section,” the new stars of poetry were younger, less straight, less male, and, on the whole, more racially diverse.
Online criticism of the essay came swiftly. Many argued that Hicok missed the mark: the odds were not against white male poets because they were white or male, some said, but because their poetry was bad. Others called the essay an example of white tears. But, white male self-pity aside, in many ways Hicok’s observations echoed literary scholars who have remarked on the changing demographics of prestige culture. “Over the past twenty years,” wrote Isaac Ginsberg Miller in Callaloo, “there has been a dramatic change in the racial demographics of US poets who have been awarded the field’s most prestigious annual book awards.”
Indeed, around the turn of the 21st century, the winners of literary prizes began to be more diverse. This change is heartening. But while more writers of color have been rewarded, this increasingly capacious literary culture is also becoming more exclusionary, more tied to elite educational institutions, and more difficult to enter. These obstacles are most salient for writers who are not white, a troubling contradiction in what otherwise appears to be a moment of watershed inclusion. Read the full story HERE.
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Work & Social Justice
The David Bacon Photography Archive at Stanford
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A union organizer for two decades, David Bacon has been a social activist his entire adult life. From the mid-1980s, he began working as an independent photographer and journalist documenting the lives and social movements of migrants, farm workers, and communities impacted by globalization. His work spans multiple geographic regions including the United States, Latin America, South East Asia, Europe, and Iraq with an emphasis on California and the United States-Mexico Border.
Bacon’s photographs reveal powerful, often personal images of people on the margins of society. Farm workers bent double in the fields; hotel workers with hands cracked from harsh chemicals reaching into the depths of massive laundry machines; protestors erupting in the streets; migrant workers living under the trees in the hillsides outside of San Diego. Overarchingly, he has created a record of contemporary social reality and a photographic history of people, the global economy, and the struggle for human rights.
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