CCSRE ALUMNI SALON
How We Got Here:
Whiteness, Higher Ed, and the Insurrection
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Join us for a discussion with Hakeem Jefferson (Political Science) and
Nolan Cabrera '02 (University of Arizona), to unpack the relationships between
higher education, whiteness, and the January 6, 2021 insurrection.
Sheela Subramanian '03 (CCSRE Board Member, Alumni Engagement Chair)
will serve as moderator.
This event is open to the CSRE and Stanford alumni community.
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ALUMNI PROFILE
Champion of racial equity & housing access,
Roger Clay '66 on college football, his career trajectory & decades of service to Stanford
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BY PERLITA R. DICOCHEA (CCSRE Staff)
As another (atypical) football season has come to a close and fans gear up for the next season, we revisit our interview with Roger Clay (’66), who met with us virtually in Spring 2020 to reflect on his experiences as one of Stanford’s first seven Black students, known as the “’62 Seven,” the third Black player in the history of Stanford’s football program, his career trajectory and commitment to university service.
A CCSRE board member since its inaugural year, 2000, Roger Clay has been a steady leader for the Center, the wider Stanford campus, and broader community remaining focused on housing, community development, and racial inequality — interests that drive his professional and volunteer commitments.
But before Clay became a champion of racial equity, he made a critical decision to join Stanford football as a “walk-on.”
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“There were six people from my high school football team who were offered scholarships to come to Stanford and I was not,” recounted Clay. “The football coach said that Black people couldn’t get into Stanford. But since I was already admitted, that, of course, was not true. And it did become an important part of my life because I played freshman football and I enjoyed that. I did not play my sophomore year and since I was not on a football scholarship I didn’t have to. And that was the most miserable year of my life, for a lot of reasons…So when I did start playing, again, my junior year, I really did enjoy it and one of the changes was that it was a new coach and he had recruited a number of Black players and we were all in the same dorm and they’re still some of my closest friends. And so that did change things for me a lot. I still thought the coach had some race problems but [I would see that] everywhere so it wasn’t that different from every other part of my life.” |
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Upon graduating from Stanford, Clay earned his MSW at UCLA then pursued his law degree at UC Berkeley. What followed is a line-up of trailblazing achievements. These include his role in designing and implementing community development and housing programs for the County of San Mateo and City of Richmond. While Vice President of the Corporation for Supportive Housing, a non-profit based in New York, Clay directed the national policy agenda on housing and services for the homeless and those at risk of homelessness. As president of the Insight Center for Community Economic Development in Oakland, CA, Roger Clay created the national Experts of Color Clearinghouse for the asset-building field, which fosters community prosperity. Additionally at Insight, Roger Clay developed the first national initiative to address the racial wealth gap in the U.S.
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CCSRE Faculty Affiliates Earn
Advancing Racial Justice in Teaching Grants
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Awards support Winter and Spring Cardinal Courses. |
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AVAILABLE ON YouTube
Archives of Injustice: Race, History, Criminal Justice
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CCSRE and the Stanford Arts Institute presented "Archives of Justice: Race, History, Criminal Justice" on February 12, 2021, and is now available to view on YouTube.
This detailed discussion about the roots and contours of how law and policy in various contexts--including in transportation and in the home--became racialized to favor whites and disfavor non-whites includes panelists Sarah Seo (Columbia Law); Khalil Gibran Muhammad (Harvard Kennedy School); and Sarah Haley (UCLA).
David Sklansky (Stanford Law), who served as moderator, reflected, "I had high expectations for the panel, and it didn't disappoint. I thought we had an important and thought-provoking discussion of how criminalization has been racialized in the United States and how that history shapes our current realities and should inform efforts toward reform and transformation."
While you're there, please subscribe to our channel.
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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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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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AVAILABLE TO VIEW
Muwekma Ohlone: Landscape, History, and the Narratives of California with Michael Wilcox
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Stanford Live presented this informative and insightful lecture by CCSRE Faculty Affiliate Michael Wilcox. Associate Director for Campus Engagement and Public Programs Karim Baer, at Stanford Live, gives the introduction.
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The Black Community Services Center Presents
2021 BLACK LIBERATION MONTH
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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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CAMPUS CONVERSATIONS
Stanford's Racial Justice Initiatives
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February 22, 3–4P (PST)
Join President Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Provost Persis Drell for a conversation with the Stanford community about racial justice initiatives underway at Stanford. The President and Provost will be joined by Claude Steele, Lucie Stern Professor Emeritus of Psychology, and Stanford Trustee Charles Young, chair of the newly formed Black Community Council.
Open to all faculty, staff, postdoc and student members of the Stanford community
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UCHICAGO ARTS
Artist Talk
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We seek 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 newsletter and blog.
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