SAVE THE DATE
STRENGTH IN SOLIDARITY
25 Years of Education, Research & Community
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Please mark your calendars for JUNE 4, 2021 to join us for an opening celebration
as CCSRE celebrates 25 years. Details to follow soon.
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AMERICA'S BLACK-WHITE DIVIDE:
Looking Back, Looking Around, Looking Forward
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March 18 | 1p PST
Should we regard the Trump years as akin to the fall of Reconstruction in the 19th Century? Is a great success and stride forward like the election of Barack Obama destined to galvanize countervailing social forces that constitute an enormous step backwards on racial progress? Is the challenge of achieving racial justice today as deep and intractable a problem as ever or are the circumstances different and better, providing grounds for optimism? What should we expect for the course of Black-white relations over the next decade or two given the trends currently at work?
Join former CCSRE Director Lawrence Bobo (Harvard), Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Harvard), Claude Steele (Psychology), and moderator Margaret Levi, Director of CASBS, to address these important and timely questions.
This event is produced by CASBS in partnership with the program in African and African American Studies at Stanford University, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University.
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Remote work is the cruel new ally
In the War on Working Moms
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The pandemic has reversed decades of progress toward a semblance of gender equity, says this Slack senior director and CCSRE Board Member Sheela Subramanian, who is calling on leaders to design more inclusive post-COVID-19 workplaces. |
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Image credit: Kateryna Kotsiuba/iStock |
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BY SHEELA SUBRAMANIAN | March 2, 2021
There’s been a lot of talk about the “she-cession” these days, as the pandemic has forced millions of women out of the workforce and reversed decades of progress toward a semblance of gender equity. The stats are shocking: A quarter of working women are considering downshifting their careers or leaving the workforce altogether, and satisfaction with remote work among working mothers is half that of working dads.
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AVAILABLE ON YouTube
How We Got Here:
Whiteness, Higher Ed, and the Insurrection
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Jennifer DeVere Brody gives the opening welcome at CCSRE's first Alumni Salon on February 18, 2021. |
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View this timely discussion, held on February 18, 2021, with CCSRE Faculty Affiliate Hakeem Jefferson, Political Science, and CSRE Alumnus Nolan Cabrera ('02), College of Education, University of Arizona, on our YouTube Channel.
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MEET THE FACULTY
CCSRE Affiliate Hakeem Jefferson
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STANFORD TODAY | March 4, 2021
Hakeem Jefferson, CCSRE Faculty Affiliate and assistant professor in the Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences, studies questions of race and identity in American politics, with a focus on the lived experiences of the stigmatized and marginalized. His current work examines why and under what conditions African Americans come to support policies that have negative consequences for members of their racial group.
Click here or on the image to see the video. Video by Kurt Hickman and Julia James
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Consent on the Continent:
Biobanking and African Genomic Wealth
A Conversation with Duana Fullwiley
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March 10 | 4p PST
CCSRE Faculty Affiliate Duana Fullwey is an anthropologist of science and medicine interested in how social identities, health outcomes, and molecular genetic findings increasingly intersect. In her first book, The Enculturated Gene: Sickle Cell Health Politics and Biological Difference in West Africa (Princeton, 2011), She draws on over a decade of ethnographic fieldwork in the US, France and Senegal. By bringing the lives of people with sickle cell anemia together with how the science about them has been made, The Enculturated Gene examines postcolonial genetic science, the effects of structural adjustment on health resources, and patient activism between Senegal and France to show how African sickle cell has been ordered in ethnic-national terms at the level of the gene.
This lecture is presented by the Program in Science, Technology, and Society and open to Stanford students, faculty, and staff.
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CCSRE Staff Perlita R. Dicochea, Contributes to Newly Published Transnational Anthology
Mothers, Mothering & COVID-19: Dispatches from a Pandemic
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CCSRE Staff Member Perlita R. Dicochea's chapter, "A Single-Parent Multigenerational Family Testimony: Living Under COVID-19 and Other Orders in Silicon Valley," weaves her personal experiences as a single parent of two children under six years old managing home schooling, working from home, household duties, family trials, and her own coping strategies during the current pandemic. Further, Dicochea's piece underscores the importance of access to current family data by race and sex at the county level, particularly in this moment of widespread crisis.
"Writing and conducting the research for this chapter was a healing process. I wrote it for my sanity, my children, my supportive loved ones and for the single-parent families struggling to keep it all together, particularly in Santa Clara County," Dicochea said.
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DEMETER PRESS SUMMARY | March 2, 2021
There has been little public discussion on the devastating impact of Covid-19 on mothers, or a public acknowledgement that mothering is frontline work in this pandemic. This collection of 45 chapters and with 70 contributors is the first to explore the impact of the pandemic on mothers’ care and wage labour in the context of employment, schooling, communities, families, and the relationships of parents and children.
With a global perspective and from the standpoint of single, partnered, queer, racialized, Indigenous, economically disadvantaged, disabled, and birthing mothers, the volume examines the increasing complexity and demands of childcare, domestic labour, elder care, and home schooling under the pandemic protocols; the intricacies and difficulties of performing wage labour at home; the impact of the pandemic on mothers’ employment; and the strategies mothers have used to manage the competing demands of care and wage labour under COVID-19.
The maternal voices and visions dispatched in this collection contribute to the necessary and long-overdue conversation on, and action towards, empowered social change for workplace justice and the re-evaluation of care work as an essential part of an economic agenda.
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Conversation with Lighting Engineer
Aileen Robinson
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March 17 | 4p PST
Aileen Robinson is an Assistant Professor of Theater and Performance Studies at Stanford (TAPS). Aileen received an Interdisciplinary PhD in Theatre and Drama from Northwestern University. Her current project explores the contribution of theatre and magic performance to emerging practices of science communication in the nineteenth century. She investigates how theatrical performances and magic shows drew upon technological innovations and formed unique methods for disseminating scientific knowledge. Presented by TAPS & open to Stanford students, faculty, and staff.
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NEWS & EVENTS OF INTEREST |
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INSTITUTE FOR DIVERSITY IN THE ARTS
Artist Talk with Be Steadwell
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MARCH 10 | 4p
The Committee on Black Performing Arts at the Institute for Diversity in the Arts presents an artist talk with 2020/21 CBPA Mentor Be Steadwell. Steadwell is a musician, filmmaker, storyteller from Washington D.C. In their live performances, Be utilizes looping, vocal layering and beat boxing compose their songs on stage. Be's goal as a musician is to make other black girls, queers, introverts and generally marginalized weirdos feel seen and loved.
With a BA from Oberlin College and an MFA in film from Howard University, Be’s love for music expands into filmmaking. Their film Vow of Silence screened in film festivals around the world.
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International Women's Day
Our Bodies, Our Homelands
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