CELEBRATING 25 YEARS OF STRENGTH IN SOLIDARITY |
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CCSRE eNEWSLETTER | MAY 19, 2022 |
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We cordially invite you to attend our Honors Thesis Presentations on Thursday, May 26th in the CCSRE Conference Room (Building 360), from 12:00pm-2:00pm. *Lunch will be Provided*
PRESENTERS:
Kevin Calderon | "Recuerdos: Queer Central American Identity Formation in/through Photography"
Josh Pe |"Revoked Refuge: How Deported 1.5 Generation Cambodian American Refugees Navigate the Contradictions Between Their Citizenship and Belonging"
Josia Josef Keoni Quon Rodriguez | "Mohala Nā Pua Kahiki: An Exploration of the Kanaka ʻŌiwi Past in Diaspora"
Brentley Sandlin | "Urban Indigenous Self-Expressionism from 1960s to Present and Its Impact on Indigenous Identity."
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White Masculinity and Self-Defense:
From the “True Man” Doctrine to “Stand Your Ground” Laws
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BY ALEX SANCHEZ BRESSLER
May 17, 2022
Please note: This article discusses homicide, incarceration, and violence against transgender Black people.
“A true man,” the Ohio supreme court wrote in 1876, “is not obliged to flee from an assailant.” He may legally kill in self-defense; he has no duty to run away. Obligating a man to retreat when attacked, the court continues, would be nothing more than “legalized cowardice.” That is: true men fight back.
This “true man” doctrine—which legalized the use of lethal force in self-defense on the basis of preserving a man’s honor—was adopted during a time when the laws were written by and for white Americans in the post-Reconstruction era [1]. Today, this doctrine goes by another moniker. Ostensibly more neutral, “Stand Your Ground” laws have proliferated in over 30 states since 2005—and they are, in fact, a chilling expansion of the “true man” doctrine. READ THE FULL STORY HERE.
Alex Sanchez Bressler is a 2022 CCSRE Public Writing Fellow and Stanford Law School student, '24.
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The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover:
How the FBI Aided & Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism
Thursday, May 19 | CCSRE Conference Rm | 12p
Join us for a presentation with Lerone A. Martin, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute about his book, The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover, which is a groundbreaking new history of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The post-lecture discussion will be moderated by Jennifer Burns, Associate Professor of History.
Lunch will be provided - Please RSVP.
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Mellon Arts Fellows from each member campus of the Centering Race Consortium (CRC) met in Providence, RI, on May 14, 2022. The CRC is a multi-university partnership between Stanford, Brown University, University of Chicago, and Yale University to center the study of race in the arts and humanities. The consortium combines research with arts practice and is sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Technology and Racial Equity Graduate Fellowship
Applications Due May 20, 2022
In 2022-2023, the Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity (CCSRE) in partnership with the Stanford Ethics Society & Technology Hub, Digital Civil Society Lab and HAI, is continuing a new graduate fellowship program designed to create:
- a supportive community of graduate students working to advance racial equity in and through technology,
- public-facing collaborative projects that expand the understanding of racial equity and technology,
- an interdisciplinary space to workshop graduate student research.
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Reimagining African Borders
Through Cultural Objects
May 27 | 3-5p
Stanford Archeology Center | BLDG 500
This student-curated exhibition features cultural objects that entered Stanford University's collections from the modern states of Egypt, Ethiopia, the Sudan, and South Sudan. Join us as we discuss how these collections inspire us to reorient the way we imagine Africa and transcend colonial categorizations.
Featuring:
Student Curator Panel
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ACROSS THE NORMATIVE DIVIDE: Religion, Race, and Justice in America
May 26-27 | In-person & On Zoom
"Across the Normative Divide" is a hybrid gathering that aims to foster collaboration and conversation between historians and ethicists on religion and racial justice in the US, and thereby to advance public conversation on these urgent issues.
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CAMPUS NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS |
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Beyond Good Intentions:
Support Asian American Studies Now
BY HOPE NAKAMURA '83 | May 17, 2022
I entered Stanford in 1978. At the time, about six to seven percent of the undergraduate students identified as Asian Americans. One of my reasons for choosing Stanford over other colleges was the presence of an Asian American theme dorm...
...Once I arrived on the Farm, though, I was disappointed to find there were no courses that examined the history of Asian immigrants in the U.S. Instead, I had to explore Asian American history outside the classroom, through Junipero (the Asian American theme dorm before it was renamed Okada House), the Asian American Student Association (AASA), and other Asian American student organization activities. READ THE FULL STORY HERE.
Hope Nakamura ’83 is a public interest lawyer at the Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County and a past SAPAAC board member and president. While on campus, she co-chaired the Asian American Students’ Association (AASA), served as the Asian American intern at DOSA, and participated in the Asian American Theater Project’s 1979 production of “FOB.”
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OPEN STUDIO with Gauri Gill
Roberta Bowman Denning Visiting Artist
May 26th 2022, 11:00a - May 27th 2022, 6:00p
Art Gallery | 419 Lasuen Mall, Stanford, CA 94305 | Lower Level
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Rethinking Our Disciplines:
Decolonial Theory and Praxis in Art, Film, and Media
May 19 | Oshman Hall | 3-5p
Rethinking Our Disciplines invites you to a vigorous conversation about how decolonial frameworks can impact, challenge, and enrich current modes of scholarship, pedagogy, art practice, and university engagement. Speakers include Laura Huerta Millan, Francoise Verges, Yvette Mutumba, Kara Keeling, and Liza Black.
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PORTRAITS OF BAYVIEW
Cultural Intersections by The Alvarado Project
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May 22, 12-4p and by appointment
Bayview Opera House | 4705 3rd Street, San Francisco, CA, 94124
For twenty years, Ricardo Ocreto Alvarado recorded Filipino community life at dances, banquets, baptisms, funerals, and other gatherings. Curated and presented by The Alvarado Project, Portraits of Bayview: Cultural Intersections is a photography exhibit featuring Alvarado's work of chronicling Filipino and Black families and culture in the Fillmore and Bayview Hunters Point neighborhoods of San Francisco. Witness Alvarado's collection of photographs with your neighbors, classrooms, families and friends!
The exhibit will be open to the public on Sunday, May 22nd during the Bayview Sunday Streets from 12pm - 4pm or can be visited by appointment (email smiley@bvoh.org to schedule).
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