CELEBRATING 25 YEARS OF STRENGTH IN SOLIDARITY |
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CCSRE eNEWSLETTER | JANUARY 5, 2022 |
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FACULTY RESEARCH FELLOWS CHAUTAUQUA
Federal Ground: Governing Property & Violence
In the First U.S. Territories
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Thursday, January 13 | 3:30pm PST
In-person attendance is limited to Stanford Faculty, Students and Staff.
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MUWEKMA:
Narratives, Sovereignty, and the Politics of Erasure
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Tuesday, January 18 | 12-1:30pm
Virtual Webinar
Join us for a research presentation by Michael V. Wilcox, Senior Lecturer, Native American Studies, CCSRE, about the Muwekma Ohlone tribe of the San Francisco Bay Area, which is currently involved in what may be the largest repatriation in US history. Having been acknowledged but not federally recognized formally the Muwekma Ohlone tribe exemplify the spaces of many California natives. The establishment of land trusts and extra federal forms of sovereign community organization offer both promise and an opportunity for the research of reconciliation and thoughtful advocacy.
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CENTER NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS |
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ATO QUAYSON ON TRAGEDY, LIFE, AND SPEAKING HIS TRUTH |
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Quayson's attachment to his mother made him a close observer of suffering and solitude. |
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BY PERLITA R. DICOCHEA
January 4, 2022
Ato Quayson, Jean G. and Morris M. Doyle Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies, Chair of the Department of English, and a 2022-23 CCSRE Faculty Affiliate, declared at his CCSRE Chautauqua last November that if there is one take away from his new book Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature, it is that tragedy should be understood as ongoing pain and communally experienced suffering, rather than as an individual’s finite episode. When I sat down with Quayson to discuss this insight, he talked about how postcolonial literary criticism, his childhood in Brazil, and becoming Black upon leaving Ghana has profoundly affected his vision for Stanford during this historic moment of racial reckoning.
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WORK WITH CCSRE
Winter - Spring 2022
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Graduate Research Assistantships |
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The Research Institute of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity (CCSRE) is hiring two 0.50 Research Assistants for two quarters starting Winter 2022. One RA will conduct research on Race Studies in Higher Ed with Professor Alfredo J. Artiles, Director of Research at CCSRE. Another RA will assist Paula M. L. Moya, Director of CCSRE, on the Perfecto Project. Click below to learn more about each RAship opportunity.
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Disrupting oversimplifications about the
dual nature of disability
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Friday, January 7 | 12p
CCSRE Research Director Dr. Alfredo Artiles (GSE) will share an overview of his research program that defies oversimplifications in the study of disability-race intersections.
Racial disparities in special education have persisted for decades though recent scholarship questions the existence of this problem and ignores the historical and structural weight of race. This recent work privileges a deficit view that suggests more African American and Latinx students must be placed in special education.
Presented by RILE.
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Stanford should get serious about
building back Asian American Studies
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January 3, 2022
We urge Stanford to provide funding and resources to hire and retain a diverse body of faculty to teach Asian American Studies (AAS) courses. We graduated Stanford as AAS majors in the early 2010s and experienced the program’s institutional challenges. Especially given the recent departure of Dr. William Gow — who taught several popular courses, including Introduction to Asian American Studies — we are disappointed that a decade after our graduation, difficulties attracting and retaining instructors who teach AAS courses persist.
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STANFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY PRESENTS
CCSRE: Planting the Seeds of
Race & Ethnic Studies on the Farm
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January 20 | 4:30p PST
VIRTUAL EVENT
The establishment of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) at Stanford in 1996 ushered in what our presenter Professor Al Camarillo refers to as “Ethnic Studies 2.0.” As the founding director of CCSRE and one of the founding scholars of Mexican American history and Chicano studies, Professor Camarillo will tell a series of “origin stories” about the formation of CCSRE and the history of ethnic studies at Stanford and beyond.
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STANFORD SEED FUNDING
2022 Scholars in Service Program
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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS | DUE JANUARY 14, 2022
The Scholars in Service Program is intended to complement and extend existing leave and sabbatical opportunities at Stanford with a primary focus on the exchange of learning and expertise around an identified social problem.
For questions, please contact Luke Terra (lterra@stanford.edu), Associate Director and Director of Community Engaged Learning and Research at the Haas Center.
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THE ART OF REPARATIONS
MLK Showcase & Community Conversations
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Monday, January 17, 2022 | 12p - 3p PST
OAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA
1000 Oak Street, Oakland, CA
On Monday, January 17, 2022, in observance and celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, Oakland Unified School District will host an engaging community event in partnership with Spearitwurx and Oakland Museum of California (OMCA). To be held onsite at OMCA, this free event will provide an immersive experience that highlights and uplifts the work of the OUSD Reparations Resolution. The resolution is OUSD’s commitment to acknowledging the history of systemic harm done to Black students and families in the district, and to investing in the repair of that harm.
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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 eNewsletter.
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