CHAUTAUQUA BOOK LAUNCH
PRIVILEGE AND PUNISHMENT:
How Race & Class Matter in Criminal Court
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NOVEMBER 20, 2020 | 4p
THE BOOK
The number of Americans arrested, brought to court, and incarcerated has skyrocketed in recent decades. Criminal defendants come from all races and economic walks of life, but they experience punishment in vastly different ways. Privilege and Punishment examines how racial and class inequalities are embedded in the attorney-client relationship, providing a devastating portrait of inequality and injustice within and beyond the criminal courts.
THE AUTHOR
Matthew Clair is Assistant Professor of Sociology and (by courtesy) Law at Stanford University. His scholarship examines how cultural meanings and interpersonal interactions reflect, reproduce, and challenge social inequality in laws, the legal profession, and the criminal legal system. He earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University.
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Celine Navarro (1904-1932):
Why We Must #DigUpHerStory
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BY CELINE PARREÑAS SHIMIZU
Adulteress, heroine, traitor or prey? In 1932, mother of four Celine Navarro was buried alive by her immigrant Filipinx community in Northern California. The Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley collects numerous articles documenting the global fascination with Celine Navarro’s story in newspapers from London to Singapore and Los Angeles to New York in the 1930s. These articles about what is now a largely unknown story about the largest Asian American ethnic group in California today compelled me to find out what happened beyond the lewd headlines of “Wife Buried Alive By Secret Cult,” so we can further understand who we are as Americans and how such a story could happen here.
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“Wife Buried Alive on Coast by Cult” — New York Times story about Celine Navarro’s murder, April 2, 1933. Courtesy Celine Parreñas Shimizu
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Only by confronting the meaning of what happened to her, which is the method of Ethnic Studies, can we recognize how Celine Navarro’s story is thoroughly and truly American, which is the goal of Critical Race Theory. Thus, not only does the presence of Filipinx in the U.S. expose America’s colonizing power, but the story of Celine Navarro reveals the economic and physical segregation, racist violence and gendered brutality that Filipinx experienced in the law, popular culture and everyday life of the U.S. during the earlier twentieth century. At the time, signs of “No Filipinos or Dogs Allowed” perched on restaurant and hotel doors on the West Coast where the population of Filipinx rose. |
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Celine Navarro (1904-1932). Courtesy Celine Parreñas Shimizu
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Two days after her body was found on April 1, 1933, The New York Times reported that she was accused of committing adultery against her sick husband from whom she also stole money. This is the main storyline that persisted across the decades: in the new land, the community who experienced rampant racism disciplined her as a bad woman in response to their racialization.
Knowing the intensity of racism experienced by Filipinx at the time, to construct Celine Navarro as a sexually liberated woman fleeing a bad situation or pursuing her own unmet desires opened up a new narrative in Filipinx history for me. The disparate gender ratio enabled her pick of men to explore her romantic and sexual options. Her fate would then belong to what feminist social scientist Sylvia Federici describes as a community’s reorganization of itself through the disciplining of women. Read the full story on CCSRE's blog.
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Former CCSRE Faculty Fellow and MTL Alumna, Celine Parreñas Shimizu is Professor and Director of the School of Cinema at San Francisco State University.
Her new film THE CELINE ARCHIVE screens internationally at Reel Sisters of the Diaspora: Women of Color Film Festival at reelsisters.org now until November 17, 2020.
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CCSRE Receives PIT-UN Challenge Grant
For Technology and Racial Equity Action Lab
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The Technology and Racial Equity Action Lab, based at the CCSRE, combines research, teaching, and practice to advance racial justice in the analysis, production, and deployment of new technologies. Rapidly developing technologies can be an unprecedented force for good; however, they can also codify and amplify existing forms of racial inequality, discrimination, and bias. The Lab will produce interventions, public-facing reports, policy briefs, and recommendations on critical issues at the intersection of race and technology. The PIT-UN grant will expand the impacts of the Lab by funding a cohort of five international Race and Tech Practitioner Fellows and five undergraduate interns.
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"We are excited to be able to expand our practitioner collaborations and support student pathways into public interest technology for racial justice," said CCSRE Executive Director Daniel Murray. "Advancing racial justice in and through new technologies requires rethinking how we make and deploy technology, who makes it, and to what end. The Practitioner Fellows are on the frontlines of this work and are leading the way to a more just future."
Current fellows' projects include developing a municipal ordinance for the City of Minneapolis to govern the use of facial recognition and other technologies, as well as an algorithmic bias mapping tool for civil society groups. The new cohort will begin their 18-month fellowship in January 2021, joining an existing cohort that will continue through May 2021. The Fellows program is a collaboration with the Stanford Digital Civil Society Lab and supported by the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI).
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The Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN) is a partnership that fosters collaboration among colleges and universities committed to building the nascent field of public interest technology and growing a new generation of civic-minded technologists. The network is a collaboration among higher education institutions and the philanthropic and public policy sectors, founded on funding from the Ford Foundation and the Hewlett Foundation as well as leadership from New America. |
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CCSRE Annual Report
2019/2020
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Explore the Latest from CCSRE
The Center's Annual Report provides an overview of key programs, events, and initiatives for the 2019-2020 academic year as well as feature stories and photos.
Click on the image for the full report.
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Resource on Food Deserts & Urban Gardening |
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Launched earlier this month, the resource on the subject of food deserts and urban gardens stems from a course and features interactive maps as well as voices from the community of Wilmington, Delaware.
Explore it here or click on the image.
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ADVANCING RACIAL JUSTICE IN TEACHING
Proposals Due November 20
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The Haas Center for Public Service welcomes proposals from faculty, lecturers, post-docs, and academic staff to offer new (or revised) academic courses for Winter, Spring, or Summer quarters in 2021 that involve students in community engaged learning projects focused on racial justice, with a preference for projects that directly address anti-Blackness.
The Haas Center will award grants of up to $12,000 and funds must be utilized by September 2021. Funds can be used to cover project/course-related costs including honoraria for community partners or guest speakers, instructor costs or teaching assistant stipends, paid undergraduate assistants, and project expenses. Contact Luke Terra.
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
PRISONS, POLICING & RACIAL JUSTICE MOVEMENTS
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ARTS + JUSTICE STUDENT GRANT
DUE NOVEMBER 30, 2020
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The Arts + Justice Student Grant will fund undergraduate and graduate students as they investigate urgent matters around justice issues and the arts. Grants up to $1,000 are available to Stanford undergraduate, co-terminal, and graduate students.
Students may apply for the grant with a year-long creative project related to any number of justice issues including, but not limited to: Race Equity; Environmentalism; Mass Incarceration; Mental Health; LGBTQ+ Equity; Affordable Healthcare.
Awards range from $200-$1,000. In addition to the award, grantees will meet monthly (via Zoom) to workshop their projects and discuss the successes and struggles of their work. Visit the program page for additional eligibility criteria. Applications are due November 30, 2020 @ 11:59pm (Pacific). Funding decisions will be announced by December 11, 2020. Contact Devin Garnick.
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We seek news and stories written by and about our CCSRE community-including from faculty, students, staff, and on and off campus partners-as well as race-centered events to feature in our newsletter and blog.
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