RACE, TECH + CIVIL SOCIETY
"Foundations + Intersections"
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Hakeem Jefferson (Poli Sci) shares new approach to understanding respectability in Black communities |
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BY PERLITA R. DICOCHEA (CCSRE STAFF)
Last Thursday marked the first Faculty Seminar of Fall 2020, which showcased Hakeem Jefferson's (Poli Sci) research on “Respectability and the Politics of Punishment among Black Americans.” Jefferson opened with the 2016 case of Timmonsville, South Carolina, whose city council passed a measure that fines those caught wearing saggy pants up to $600.
“One would think this measure was passed in a conservative white town, but that is not the case,” Jefferson said. He explained that Timmonsville is a
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Hakeem Jefferson presents his findings during
CCSRE's first Faculty Seminar of Fall Quarter.
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predominantly Black town and, in a reversal of in-group favoritism, the city council is represented by Black leaders. Jefferson asked the near seventy seminar attendees, “How do we understand the puzzling levels of support for punitive racialized policies that target Black communities?”
Addressing the limitations of existing social science concepts to understand the example of Timmonsville and others like it, Jefferson couches the motivations of those engaged in enforcing respectability in the context of diversity within Black communities and the historical experience of social stigma.
Jefferson shared, as part of his quantitative findings, members of a marginalized group often recognize that their racial group is indiscriminately impacted by the actions of one or a few. “Stigma conditions the stigmatized,” Jefferson asserted.
Thus, Jefferson concluded, “the history of subjugation gives rise to respectability.”
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Nearly seventy people attended
CCSRE's Oct 1 Faculty Seminar Series.
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"I appreciated that he wanted to unpack the diversity of black perspectives on punishment and that he was attentive to how racism affected the stakes of these perspectives," commented Rabia Belt, professor of Stanford Law School.
In addition to the significance of the topic, Jefferson’s methodological approach had interdisciplinary value for attendees. CCSRE Grad Fellow Ayodele Osa Foster-McCray (Anthro), who joined the seminar, reflected, “As an anthropology Ph.D. student, I often engage with ethnography and
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other qualitative research methods, so it was very beneficial for me to see a more quantitatively-driven social science method operationalized in Professor Jefferson’s research to explore questions related to race and culture." Foster-McCray furthered, "[Jefferson's] results definitely challenged my preconceived notions about respectability and punishment among Black Americans."
Moderator Jon Krosnick (Communication) highlighted the importance of Jefferson’s research and analysis stating, “Hakeem’s presentation was a tour de force review of his theorizing and evidence exploring African
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CCSRE Grad Fellow Ayodele Osa Foster-McCray (Anthro) contributes to the Q & A portion of the seminar. |
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Americans’ beliefs about how best to maximize respectability in society and how some people come to understand, cope with, and attempt to attenuate unequal treatment."
"I had so much fun sharing my work with colleagues at the Faculty Seminar Series," said Jefferson. "Having an audience of scholars from across the university help workshop a project is a rare occurrence, so I’m grateful to have had the opportunity to take advantage of my colleagues’ brilliance."
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Underrepresented Minorities at Stanford
2019
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Review more data on underrepresented minorities from 2019 and previous years
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Welcome Gathering held jointly with Jewish Studies |
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"I had the pleasure of meeting a senior who made the dramatic switch from majoring in symbolic systems to CSRE after taking an Asian American studies class. In that class, she felt her lived experience reflected in and contextualized by the material she was studying. This student's story demonstrates how crucial the humanities are to pursuing a robust and thorough education. Whether it's through one of CSRE's race and ethnic studies programs, history, philosophy, literature, or religious studies, the humanities cannot be an afterthought to a student's time at Stanford, but must be a core component of the pursuit of knowledge, regardless of a student's major or career ambitions."
Shaina Hammerman, Associate Director
Taube Center for Jewish Studies
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September 29, 2020 marked the first time CCSRE's Fall welcome event
was held together with Jewish Studies.
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"I really appreciated the chance to connect with new people, especially graduate students and staff I had not gotten the chance to meet. As a newly declared undergrad, it really gave me a feel for the network of support in the CSRE department."
- Angie Gomez, Sociology and Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity '22
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SFSU & Stanford Faculty discuss A Place of RAGE
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CCSRE Director Brody noted that Parmar's film affirms an "expansive view of love-for the incarcerated, the misgendered, and the food insecure." |
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The first collaboration between the School of Cinema at SFSU and Stanford's CCSRE took place on Friday. Funded in part by the Mellon Foundation Centering Race in the Humanities, the discussion focused on the prescient work of filmmaker Pratibha Parmar, whose 1991 experimental documentary A Place of Rage featured interviews with Angela Davis June Jordan, Trinh T. Minha and Alice Walker.
Parmar noted that she was inspired by the Combahee River Collective statement and noted the radical promise of the insurgent voices of the queer women of color in the film that resonate in today's movements for freedom and black lives.
Jennifer DeVere Brody, Director of CCSRE
and contributor to the cinema discussion
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CCSRE CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Due October 31, 2020
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RACE + TECH PRACTITIONER FELLOWSHIPS
Applications Due October 31, 2020
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Monuments, Murals & Movements:
Reimagining the Art of Social Justice
A Webinar Series
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NOVEMBER 6 | 12p PT
Challenges to race, memorialization, and icons of power predominate in ongoing social, cultural, and political action and art throughout the summer of 2020. How have social movements redefined public space, articulated social justice issues in artistic form, and defied long-standing icons and monuments ESPECIALLY on University and school grounds? What is at stake in these movements and gestures and how do art and politics work together to reimagine social space, belonging, and power on campuses?
Presented by the Centering Race Consortium, a collaboration between the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown University, the Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity at Stanford University, the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago, and the Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration at Yale University.
This webinar series is supported by the Mellon Foundation.
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Arts + Justice
Slow Loss: Black Feminism & Endurance
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Thursday, October 8 | 4:30p PST
Join us for a conversation with Dr. Jennifer Nash (Duke), moderated by Dr. Charles Kronengold
The first 20 to RSVP will receive a complimentary copy of Nash's Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality (2019)
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
PRISONS, POLICING &
RACIAL JUSTICE MOVEMENTS
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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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