CELEBRATING 25 YEARS OF STRENGTH IN SOLIDARITY |
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CCSRE eNEWSLETTER | OCTOBER 4, 2021 |
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OCTOBER 28, 2021 | 12PM - 1:30PM PDT
Catherine S. Ramírez, chair of the Latin American and Latino Studies department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is a scholar of Mexican American history; race, migration, and citizenship; Latinx literature and visual culture; comparative ethnic studies; gender studies; and speculative fiction. She is the author of Assimilation: An Alternative History and The Woman in the Zoot Suit: Gender, Nationalism, and the Cultural Politics of Memory and she is a co-editor of Precarity and Belonging: Labor, Migration, and Noncitizenship. She has also written for the New York Times, The Atlantic, Public Books, and Boom California. From 2013 until 2018, she directed the Chicano Latino Research Center (now the Research Center for the Americas) at UC Santa Cruz.
Tomás Jiménez is a Professor of Sociology and Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. He is also Director of the Undergraduate Program on Urban Studies. His research and writing focus on immigration, assimilation, social mobility, and ethnic and racial identity. His forthcoming book, States of Belonging: Immigration Policies, Attitudes, and Inclusion uses survey data and in-depth interviews to understand how state-level immigration policies shape belonging among Latino immigrants, US-born Latinos, and US-born whites in Arizona and New Mexico.
EVENT LOCATIONS
You may join us in person in Building 360, Conference Room 361J, or via zoom. In person capacity will be limited to 40 persons. Masks are required indoors. See below to RSVP or join online.
LUNCHEON
Lunch will be provided for in-person attendees at 11:30am outside of Building 360. RSVP Required.
*HEALTH CHECK
This event is open to Stanford affiliates. Please be sure to bring your devices as you will need to show your health check status and sign in upon entry. Go to healthcheck.stanford.edu for your status. |
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WELCOME INAUGURAL
CCSRE Technology + Racial Equity Graduate Fellows
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CCSRE welcomes our inaugural cohort of
Technology and Racial Equity Graduate Fellows to the 2021/22 academic year.
Our fellows are:
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Jasmine Cox (Electrical Engineering)
Agata Foryciarz (Computer Science)
Tim Jones (Theater & Performance Studies
Michelle Lam (Computer Science)
Cinoo Lee (Psychology)
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Aaron Neiman (Anthropology)
Gregory Ng Yong He (Law)
Jaylen Pittman (Education)
Nina Dewi Toft Djanegara (Anthropology)
Peggy Xu (Law)
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IN SEARCH OF AFRICAN ARABIC
By Vaughn Rasberry (Director of Academic Program at CSRE)
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The majority of the world’s Arabic speakers inhabit Africa and its diasporas. So why is much of continental Africa absent in Arabic language curricula? |
BY VAUGHN RASBERRY
In “Beyond Timbuktu: An Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa,” historian Ousmane Omar Kane opens with a mesmerizing account of his childhood in Dakar, Senegal. In telling this story, Kane’s aim is to counter simplistic accounts of Islam in West Africa that focus solely on the spread of jihadism or the predominance of slavery and anti-Black racism.
By contrast, yet without diminishing these realities, Kane sketches a cosmopolitan world of multidirectional migration across the Sahara characterized by hospitality and learned discourse, by cultural hybridity and interethnic marriage, and by reciprocal (if often asymmetrical) exchange. For Kane, the Arabic language — which he champions in Africa over the continued use of European colonial languages — has provided a versatile, powerful medium of expression and scholarship that fuses creatively with local African practices and connects the continent with the wider world. For more than a millennium, Arabic in Africa facilitated intellectual innovation in fields from mathematics and numerology and astronomy to poetry, theology and jurisprudence.
My desire to study the Arabic language — relatively late in life, beginning in my mid-30s — was inspired in part by my encounter, over the years, with snippets of such histories as conjured by Kane and other writers. How could I access this esoteric knowledge and historical experience, some of which enslaved Africans carried with them into the Americas during the Atlantic slave trade?
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Taube Center for Jewish Studies Presents
CAMPUS CONVERSATIONS
"The Conflict in Israel/Palestine"
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OCTOBER 4, 2021 | 5PM PT
Join us for an important conversation about the intersections of antisemitism and antizionism--and the question of whether such an intersection exists at all. Lila Corwin-Berman (Temple University) and Tony Michels (Univ. of Wisconsin) address these questions, in conversation with Stanford's Steven J. Zipperstein, in light of the ongoing conflicts in Israel/Palestine and the debates that have emerged on campuses like Stanford and across the country.
All undergraduates are invited to join the speakers for dinner in the faculty club following the conversation.
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ART + JUSTICE WORKSHOP SERIES
Rap, Law and Critical Race Theory
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October 8, 2021 | 12-1:30PM PT
"Rap, Law and Critical Race Theory"
Featuring Andrea Dennic, Erik Nielson, and A.D. Carson. Moderated by Nomi Dave.
With the increased visibility of demands for change in U.S. policing and carceral systems as a result of the Black Lives Matter movement among other activists, questions over the impact of the U.S. legal system on Black and Brown communities and individuals have also fostered both increased interest in Critical Race Theory, and reactionary backlash against it.
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TECHNOLOGY AND RACIAL EQUITY INITIATIVE
RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP
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EXHIBITION AT SFMOMA | BAY AREA WALLS |
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ONGOING AT SFMOMA
SFMOMA presents a series of commissions by local artists that actively engage with pressing issues of our time. Many of 2020’s inaugural projects delved into the consequences of a year of social isolation and unrest, polarizing news, racial injustice, economic crises, all against a backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now ongoing, the program is designed to support local artists who are keenly attuned to our community and current moment. Featured muralists include Liz Hernández, Elaine Chu and Marina Perez-Wong.
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EXHIBITION AT ICA SAN JOSÉ
Conrad Egyir: A Chapter of Love
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On View October 1, 2021 through September 18, 2022
Institute of Contemporary Art San José
Conrad Egyir is a Ghanian artist based in Detroit, who creates bold, bright, graphic narrative paintings and portraits that stylistically pull from pop art, political propaganda, and religious art. The imagery in A Chapter of Love will center around community, family, and child-rearing inspired by Egyir’s experience growing up in West Africa. The artist references the saying “it takes a village” as touchstone for this project.
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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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