CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF INDIGENOUS EXCELLENCE AT STANFORD
Notable Native American Scholars Panel
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February 11, 2021 | 3-5pm PST
Join the Harvard University Native American Program (HUNAP), and the Stanford Native American Studies Program & Native American Cultural Center for a panel discussion with phenomenal Indigenous scholars to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Harvard and Stanford Native American Programs.
PANELISTS INCLUDE:
Henrietta Mann (Cheyenne) Professor Emerita of Native American Studies at the University of Montana, Missoula and Montana State University, Bozeman and the Founding President of Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal College.
Greg Sarris (Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria) Tribal Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria (Coast Miwok), and Endowed Chair in Creative Writing and Native American Studies at Sonoma State University.
Philip J. Deloria (Yankton Dakota) Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History at Harvard University.
K. Tsianina Lomawaima (Creek Nation) Professor in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University, and Co-founder of the Native American & Indigenous Studies Association.
Robert Warrior (Osage Nation) Professor of American Literature and Culture at the University of Kansas.
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IMAGINING JUSTICE
Archives of Injustice: Race, History, Criminal Justice
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BIDEN ISSUES A SLEW OF EXECUTIVE ORDERS
CCSRE Faculty Affiliates Respond
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BY CCSRE STAFF
"President Biden promised communities of color that he would act aggressively to advance goals pertaining to racial equity in the U.S. Of course, these assurances came at a time when the country was once again reminded—by an out-of control pandemic and various instances of police violence—that there is much to do in this regard," Jefferson noted.
He furthered, "At present, the administration’s initial efforts seek to take stock of how the various agencies of the federal government are doing in terms of equity, and seek to recenter concerns about equity and justice in the work of the federal government. What an idea! Having experienced four years of an administration that had a very different approach, we ought not understate the importance of these executive actions as they will have a broad reach across the federal government and will affect federal contractors and others whose activities directly affect the lives of millions of Americans. These executive actions, of course, have their limits and we may worry about their durability given the possibility that some future administration might undo them through its own executive actions."
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"Those concerns notwithstanding," Jefferson asserted, "I am heartened by the fact that members of the administration discuss issues of equity frequently, and hope they will continue to work with Congress to implement more permanent reforms in the areas of health, policing and the criminal legal system, the environment, housing, and the labor market. In each of these areas, racial and ethnic minorities have much to gain from bold and progressive moves that address the severity of the problems facing our communities. These executive actions are a good start but it's important that all who care about justice keep holding the administration’s feet to the fire to enact real, meaningful, and lasting change. Those on the margins can afford nothing less." |
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CCSRE Faculty Affiliate Jackelyn Hwang (Sociology) responds to the Biden-Harris administration's executive orders related to housing. |
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AVAILABLE ON YouTube
Tools for Combatting Bias in Datasets & Models
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The Race, Tech + Civil Society Series presented "Tools for Combatting Bias in Datasets & Models" on February 3, 2021, and is available to view on YouTube.
This candid, thoughtful, and deep discussion about bias, equity, and accountability includes panelists Timnit Gebru (AI Researcher); James Zou (Stanford); and Michael Hind (IBM Research). Race & Tech Fellow Hong Qu (Stanford) serves as moderator.
While you're there, please subscribe to our channel.
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REAPING WHAT WE SOW
A Conversation with Alice Walker
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The Department of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley,
In Partnership with CCSRE at Stanford Present
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February 15 | 12p
The Spring 2021 Critical Conversations series is organized around two themes: celebrating the life and legacy of Dr. Barbara T. Christian, an architect of Black feminist criticism, a founding member of our Department and a gifted writer and teacher; and exploring the concept of “abolition democracy,” thinking creatively and collaboratively about the practice of abolition as necessary to building life-affirming institutions and robust democratic structures. Through both themes, we ask: what are the lessons of the Black Feminist, Black Radical, and Black intellectual traditions for our moment and what is the role of Black Studies in building more just futures?
Reaping What We Sow: A Conversation with celebrated novelist, poet, and activist Alice Walker who will reflect on freedom, Black feminism/womanism, and sisterhood. This is the second in our series celebrating the life and legacy of Dr. Barbara T. Christian
Darieck Scott and Ra Malika Imhotep will moderate a Q & A session with Alice Walker taking questions.
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RACE IN TECHNOLOGY
Conversation with Faculty Affiliate Forrest Stuart (Soc)
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February 17 | 4P PST
As an urban ethnographer, Forrest Stuart (Soc), CCSRE Faculty Affiliate and director of the Stanford Ethnography Lab, uses fieldwork, archival, and other qualitative methods to investigate the causes, contours, and consequences of urban poverty. In the spirit of the Chicago School of Sociology, he pays close attention to the ways that individuals and communities make sense of their social worlds. This agenda has led to number of original research projects, community organizing efforts, and intervention programs. He makes efforts to embrace the ideals of public sociology, which enlists community members as valuable co-producers of knowledge.
This event is open to Stanford students, faculty, and staff.
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ARTS + JUSTICE WORKSHOP
Staging Justice Through Opera:
A Roundtable of Artists
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February 19 | 12p PST
Join us as the acclaimed composer Jonathan Berger (Stanford), powerful visual artist Enrico Riley (Dartmouth), and award-winning artistic director Niegel Smith (The Flea) come together for a roundtable discussion on their artistic roles on The Ritual of Breath Is the Rite to Resist, a multimedia song cycle, community meditation and ritual on the death of Eric Garner.
This piece, all well as their reflections on the on-going process of creation and collaboration, draws forth themes of atonement, resistance, witnessing, activism, and togetherness, relying on the sonic, the visual, the theatrical and the textual to convey its message. Co-commissioned in 2019 by Stanford Live and the Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College, this performance is forthcoming when theaters return with live audiences.
Sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Cente | Co-sponsored by the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, the Stanford Arts Institute, and the Department of Theater and Performance Studies
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BY JENNA KUNZE | February 1, 2021
When many Native American entrepreneurs seek funding for a business venture, they often face an equity and lending structure that was not designed for them.
That’s according to Valerie Red-Horse Mohl (Cherokee), an impact investor and CFO of Oakland, Calif.-based East Bay Community Foundation who got her start heading an investment firm on Wall Street more than two decades ago that was geared to help tribal communities understand capital.
“What I discovered was the Native founders often have the most brilliant business plans in existence, (but) their fear of standing in front of a venture capital pitch was real,” Red-Horse Mohl told Tribal Business News. “It didn’t matter how they grew up, if they came from the reservation life or urban, there was this barrier in their own mind of: I’m not going to get this money.” READ THE FULL STORY IN TRIBAL BUSINESS NEWS HERE.
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RACE IN TECHNOLOGY
Race, Health, and Technology in the Black Panther Party
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February 24 | 4p
This event is open to Stanford students, faculty, and staff.
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BOOK CONVERSATION
Resurrecting the Promise of Forty Acres
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February 25 | 4p
Join William A. Darity Jr. & A. Kirsten Mullen as they discuss the message of their book From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century. The authors will examine the limitations and weaknesses of piecemeal (or state level or municipal) attempts at reparations, particularly the inability of such steps, taken singly or collectively, to eliminate the black-white differential in wealth.
The case for African American reparations is directly linked to the basis of the damages of slavery, the harms of the Jim Crow period, and anti-black atrocities in the post-Civil Rights Acts era, positioning the US government as the culpable party that must pay the debt. Darity and Mullen will establish the particularity of African American reparations for black Americans, compare a variety of methods for establishing the appropriate size of the reparations fund, and the best procedure for disbursement of the funds. African American reparations, according to Darity and Mullen, is the mechanism to assure the material conditions for full citizenship for the black community in the United States.
Ralph Richard Banks, the Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law and faculty director of the Stanford Center for Racial Justice, will moderate the discussion.
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NEWS & EVENTS OF INTEREST |
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The Black Community Services Center Presents
2021 BLACK LIBERATION MONTH
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AVAILABLE TO VIEW
Perspectives on Anti-Asian American Racism,
Faith & Identity
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The Stanford Office for Religious and Spiritual Life invites you view the Roger W. Heyns Forum lecture, "Perspectives on Anti-American Racism, Faith & Identity," held on January 28, 2021.
Event Description: The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has fueled the rise of the existing issue of anti-Asian/Asian American racism in the United States. As we witness America’s reckoning with racism in our society, this forum presents a thought-provoking and educational discussion on the intersection of faith and Asian American activism in our own communities and at the national level. The panelists discuss the role of faith communities in navigating issues of racial inequality.
Panelists include David Kaleo Woo, Spiritual Care Provider at Homeboy Industries & Buddhist seminarian; Najeeba Syeed, Associate Professor, Muslim and Interreligious Studies at Chicago Theological Seminary & Director of the Center for Global Peacebuilding; Sunny Kang, Senior Pastor of United University Church – Hope on Union, Los Angeles, Religious Director & Advisor to Progressive Christians at USC. Laura Mariko Cheifetz, Assistant Dean of Admissions, Vocation, and Stewardship, Vanderbilt University, served as moderator.
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RACE ON CAMPUS
What I Learned From a Deep Dive Into Diversity Data
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BY SARAH BROWN | February 2, 2021
Grim Numbers
For the past two-and-a-half months, I have been working on a report that examines why colleges have fallen short for decades on their racial-diversity promises.
It's no secret that, on most campuses, student populations have diversified steadily — people of color now make up nearly half of undergraduates — while the faculty, staff, leadership, and boards haven’t kept up. But in the course of my reporting, I learned just how dire higher education’s racial-representation problems are.
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CANTOR ARTS CENTER INTRODUCES
The Asian American Art Initiative
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February 16 | 5:30p PST
The recently-established Asian American Art Initiative (AAAI) at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University is a significant effort to acquire, preserve, display and research art related to Asian American and Asian diaspora artists. In this online event, founding co-directors of the AAAI, Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander, assistant curator of American art at the Cantor, and Marci Kwon, assistant professor in the Department of Art and Art History, will introduce the initiative, preview upcoming related projects, and be available to answer questions.
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STORYTELLING FOR JUSTICE
How Libraries & Archives Hold History to Account
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February 10 | 5:00 P ET
Mellon Foundation President Dr. Elizabeth Alexander will lead a wide-ranging conversation with Librarian of Congress Dr. Carla D. Hayden, UCLA Professor/Project Director, Million Dollar Hoods, Dr. Kelly Lytle Hernández, and Liberatory Memory Worker and PhD candidate of the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University Jarrett Martin Drake. The panelists will discuss how libraries and archives are both empowering underrepresented communities and advocating for increased representation of marginalized stories and experiences in our country’s historical record.
Join us as we learn about the power and potential of these memory institutions to confront race, policing, and mass incarceration, to foster equity of access and participation, and to educate and train the next generation of librarians, archivists, and activists.
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SUMMER INTERNSHIP
Stanford Historical Society
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The Stanford Historical Society is accepting applications for its Oral History Program Summer Internship through March 29, 2021.
Learn the skills and best practices of oral history interviewing and archival preservation and access while contributing to the documentation of Stanford University’s history. Tasks will include reviewing and editing interview transcripts and preparing them for deposit into the University Archives; drafting interview abstracts and topics lists; assisting with metadata collection; and administrative tasks as needed. The intern will also receive training in oral history interviewing and coordinate, plan, and complete at least one oral history interview. The internship provides hands-on experience for those interested in careers in history, public history, writing, or library/archives work.
The Stanford Historical Society Oral History Program explores the institutional history of the university through interviews with members of the Stanford community. The internship is reserved for Stanford undergraduate or graduate students.
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LEADERSHIP FOR SOCIETY
Race and Power | GSB Winter Series
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Stanford Graduate School of Business’ Brian Lowery hosts a series of critical and high visibility conversations to examine the way race interacts with structures of power, and how systemic racism manifests itself in institutions and our daily lives.
The virtual conversations are available to the Stanford community and open to the general public. Webinars are held on Mondays at 6:15pm PST and as a podcast series.
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DIGITAL HUMANITIES AGAINST ENCLOSURE |
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February 9 | 12p PST
In "Digital Humanities Against Enclosure," Jessica Johnson, Assistant Professor of History at John Hopkins University, will explore the paradigms and possibilities for digital practice in our research, teaching, and collaborative work that moves beyond project completion and embodies a crossroads praxis of engagement with our machines that centers history, ethics of care, active accountability, and our humanity.
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José Arturo Ballester, "Buscando en la botánica"
Virtual Gallery: En tiempos de pandemia
(@Balleste9 on IG)
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