SPEAKER: Asad L. Asad is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Stanford University and a faculty affiliate at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity.

DISCUSSANT: Jayashri Srikantiah (Stanford Law School) is Associate Dean of Clinical Education, Director of the Mills Legal Clinic, Professor of Law, and Director of the Immigrants' Rights Clinic.

Join us for a lecture and discussion with FDI Anne H. Charity Hudley, Ph.D., Professor of Education, on her co-authored book Talking College, which shows that language is fundamental to Black and African American culture and that linguistic justice is crucial to advancing racial justice, both on college campuses and throughout society. Writing from a linguistics-informed, Black-centered educational framework, the authors draw extensively on Black college students’ lived experiences to present key ideas about African American English and Black language practices.

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.

Exhibition at Anderson Collection

Wendy Red Star: American Progress presents work by the artist, Wendy Red Star, who was raised on the Apsáalooke (Crow) reservation in Montana. Red Star’s work is informed by her cultural heritage and engagement with many forms of creative expression, including photography, sculpture, video, fiber arts, and performance.

Kelly Lytle Hernández reframes our understanding of U.S. history in this talk drawn from her forthcoming book, a groundbreaking narrative of revolution in the borderlands.

Bad Mexicans tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Mexican Revolution from the United States. Led by a brilliant but ill-tempered radical named Ricardo Flores Magón, the magonistas were a motley band of journalists, miners, migrant workers, and more, who organized thousands of Mexican workers―and American dissidents―to their cause.

This event will be held in person and online. LEARN MORE & RSVP

automatically, if not naturally, making steady linear progress toward racial equality. In this talk, Jennifer Richeson argues that our fidelity to this narrative elicits a persistent pattern of willful ignorance regarding some present-day racial disparities, including the wealth gap between Black and White Americans.

Desi Small-Rodriguez, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and American Indian Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. As a social demographer, she applies critical quantitative and mixed methods to research at the intersection of race, indigeneity, data, and inequality. She directs the Data Warriors Lab, an Indigenous social science laboratory that connects researchers, students and Indigenous communities to build data that support "strong self-determined Indigenous futures."

This event is presented by Stanford Health Policy. LEARN MORE & REGISTER

Asian American Parents Association (aapa.net), in collaboration with AAPI Silicon Valley (aapisv.com) and Bay Area Youth Initiative (bayouth.org), will organize and host a half day, outdoor, multicultural event in the month of May (tentative for May 14, 12pm-4pm) during AAPI heritage month to celebrate diversity and promote understanding and knowledge of the different Asian communities in the County of Santa Clara. This event is free and open to the public.

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