CCSRE Faculty Retreat kicks off the 2020-2021 academic year with discussions on racial justice research and leadership within & beyond campus
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CCSRE directors & staff facilitated conversations on creating more opportunities for faculty-led research, strengthening the curriculum, supporting race-centered leadership on campus, and gathering ideas for the Center's 25th anniversary celebration.
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BY PERLITA R. DICOCHEA (CCSRE STAFF)
The 2020-2021 CCSRE Faculty Retreat, held virtually last Thursday, marked the first formal event of the new academic year. Participants had opportunities to reconnect after the summer break, meet new faculty and staff, and share their ideas on various topics including ways to support race-centered research and further coordinate with other units focused on racial justice within and beyond the campus community.
“Our virtual gathering introduced new members to our current faculty and served as a catalyst for celebrating CCSRE’s 25th anniversary. We confirmed our continuing support for AAAS and had productive breakout sessions on pedagogy and research” CCSRE Director Jennifer DeVere Brody said.
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Among the fifty participants included founding CCSRE Director Al Camarillo (History, Emeritus), and veterans Gordan Chang (History) and Charlotte Fonrobert, director of the Taube Center for Jewish Studies. New staff including Associate Director of AAAS, Katie Dieter, recently arrived to Santa Clara County from Jamaica, also participated.
"I really enjoyed the breakout sessions of the retreat. It was a fantastic opportunity for me to meet faculty in CCSRE and engage in important topics like the departmentalization of AAAS and the restructuring of the CCSRE’s Intro course on a more detailed level," Dieter said.
Although difficult to rally, DeVere Brody noted "our collective meeting made clear our goals for changing the racial landscape for the greater good."
To learn more about how to get involved with CCSRE's racial justice initiatives and receive a copy of the Center's 2019-2020 Annual Report, please contact Executive Director Daniel Murray at ddmurray@stanford.edu.
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New Research on Race, Racism & Racial Justice
by CCSRE Affiliates
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Latinos' Deportation Fears
By Citizenship & Legal Status, 2007-2018
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES | 2020
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ASAD ASAD (Sociology)
ABSTRACT: Deportation has become more commonplace in the United States since the mid-2000s. Latin American noncitizens—encompassing undocumented and documented immigrants—are targeted for deportation. Deportation’s threat also reaches naturalized and U.S.-born citizens of Latino descent who are largely immune to deportation but whose loved ones or communities are deportable. Drawing on six years of data from the National Survey of Latinos, this article examines whether and how Latinos’ deportation fears vary by citizenship status and over time. Compared with Latino noncitizens, Latino U.S. citizens report lower average deportation fears. But a more complex story emerges when examining this divide over time: Deportation fears are high but stable among Latino noncitizens, whereas deportation fears have increased substantially among Latino U.S. citizens. These trends reflect a growing national awareness of—rather than observable changes to—deportation policy and practice since the 2016 U.S. presidential election. The article highlights how deportation or its consequences affects a racial group that the U.S. immigration regime targets disproportionately. Click here for more information about this article.
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"Among Latino US citizens largely
immune to deportation but who fear it for their loved ones or communities,
their reports of deportation fears have increased substantially since the 2016
US presidential election."
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“Content Analysis of Textbooks via Natural Language Processing: Findings on Gender, Race,
And Ethnicity in Texas U.S. History Textbooks
SAGE JOURNALS | 2020
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Among the findings, Bromley et al. conclude "Latinx people are virtually absent from discussions of racial and ethnic groups in history textbooks in Texas, and nearly all famous figures discussed are White men in politics."
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BY PATRICIA BROMLEY (Intl & Comparative Edu) ET AL.
ABSTRACT: Cutting-edge data science techniques can shed new light on fundamental questions in educational research. We apply techniques from natural language processing (lexicons, word embeddings, topic models) to 15 U.S. history textbooks widely used in Texas between 2015 and 2017, studying their depiction of historically marginalized groups. We find that Latinx people are rarely discussed, and the most common famous figures are nearly all White men. Lexicon-based approaches show that Black people are described as performing actions associated with low agency and power. Word embeddings reveal that women tend to be discussed in the contexts of work and the home. Topic modeling highlights the higher prominence of political topics compared with social ones. We also find that more conservative counties tend to purchase textbooks with less representation of women and Black people. Building on a rich tradition of textbook analysis, we release our computational toolkit to support new research directions. Click here for more information about this article.
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CCSRE Faculty lead Stanford Impact Labs
to tackle social problems
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BY AMY ADAMS
Unlike medicine and engineering, which have strong research and development pipelines leading from scientific advances to practical innovations, the social sciences lack a similar infrastructure, slowing the rate at which data and insights generated by social science research shape the design of new solutions.
That’s the gap addressed by the Stanford Impact Labs (SIL), an accelerator that arose as part of the university’s Long-Range Vision. SIL’s goal is to maximize the impact of the university’s research and engagement on social problems through partnerships with the public, private and social sectors. The initiative (formerly called Social X-Change) models what a new R&D pipeline – one with significant investments in promising partnerships, a cadre of professional staff, and innovative training and education – could look like.
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When the investments yield compelling solutions, SIL works with faculty and their external collaborators to scale those innovations to other contexts around the country and the globe.
“We want to make Stanford as vital to innovation around social problems as it is to innovation in the life sciences, business and engineering,” said Jeremy Weinstein, professor of political science in the School of Humanities and Sciences, who is the faculty director of the initiative. Read the full story here.
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STANFORD IDEAL DASHBOARD DATA
Academic Year 2019-2020
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Review more data on underrepresented minorities from 2019/2020 and previous years
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If History is Any Guide:
Faculty Affiliate Michael Wilcox (NAS)
on how the pandemic could transform us
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Stanford Magazine's Jill Patton interviewed Faculty Affiliate Michael Wilcox along with three other Stanford researchers on how health crises of the past might inform our current battle with COVID-19. Below are excerpts from Wilcox's remarks.
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"I ask people to reconsider the idea that diseases are these free-floating, biologically neutral elements of human societies, and that when they latch on to a specific population, it wreaks havoc on them as part of a natural, evolutionary process. Part of that story is that Native Americans lacked immunity to these diseases—that there’s something deficient in our DNA that did not allow us to respond to these diseases in the same way that Europeans did.
"But these same diseases decimated populations in Europe. Every year we still have to get inoculations for all types of infectious diseases. People talk about disease in the Americas as if it erased 'virgin' Native populations. But pathogens move and adapt to our circumstances and behaviors. We need to include colonialism as part of this equation—social and sexual violence, land dispossession, lack of access to clean water and traditional foods all could be considered comorbidities. Population declines were the product of a whole host of factors directly related to colonial activities.
"Colonization wasn’t an accident. The health outcomes of Native peoples, who were at the bottom of the social ladder in colonial societies, were purposefully engineered that way." -Michael Wilcox (NAS)
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LECTURE SERIES - RACE IN SCIENCE
"Science: what have race and gender got to do with it?"
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SAVE THE DATE
MURALS, MONUMENTS & MOVEMENTS
Presented by the Centering Race Consortium
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WORKSHOP SERIES
Arts + Justice
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VIRTUAL EVENT
Why Are Kids In Cages?:
Meet Warren H. Binford, Intl. Children's Rights Attorney
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Find out why are we keeping kids in cages and what can be done about it.
Hear from Warren H. Binford, international children's rights attorney and tenured law professor at Willamette University, who has visited the detention centers
and testified in front of congress about what she has seen.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Research in Social Movements, Conflicts & Change
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Due December 31, 2020
Volume 46 will focus on race and ethnicity, but submissions appropriate to any of the three broad foci reflected in Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change (RSMCC) are welcome.
Volume 46 will be open to all submissions and one section will be devoted to movements for racial equity and the operation of race in social movements. For the remaining chapters, we particularly welcome research examining the role of race and/or ethnicity in conflicts and social change.
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We are always seeking 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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