Monuments, Murals & Movements:
Reimagining the Art of Social Justice
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NOVEMBER 13 | 12p PT
Challenges to race, memorialization, and icons of power predominate in ongoing social, cultural, and political action and art throughout the summer of 2020. How have social movements redefined public space, articulated social justice issues in artistic form, and defied long-standing icons and monuments ESPECIALLY on University and school grounds? What is at stake in these movements and gestures and how do art and politics work together to reimagine social space, belonging, and power on campuses?
Speakers: Honey Crawford (University of Chicago); Danielle Roper (University of Chicago); Steven O. Roberts (Stanford); Karen Biestman (Stanford)
Moderator: Grant Parker (Stanford)
Presented by the Centering Race Consortium, a collaboration between the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown University, the Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity at Stanford University, the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago, and the Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration at Yale University.
Funded by the Mellon Foundation
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CCSRE Praxis Fellow in Advocacy & Social Change,
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“I strongly believe in making sure that I never leave my community and that I never stop working with my community. Everything I do is for my community.”
–Gema Quetzal ‘23
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BY PERLITA R. DICOCHEA
Gema Quetzal ‘23 (CSRE Major) began speaking up on school matters at age ten when she attended school board meetings in the Fruitvale district of Oakland, CA, to urge the board not to close her school. As a freshman in high school, she channeled her anger over the lack of school resources into coalition building and educating her community together with her peers. As summer fellow in CCSRE’s Praxis Fellowship in Advocacy and Social Change, Quetzal continued her community involvement by working with Oakland Youth Vote to educate others about Measure QQ, which would allow sixteen- and seventeen-year-olds to vote in local school board elections.
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Gema Quetzal during a recent visit to UCLA. Courtesy of Gema Quetzal
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“[Measure QQ] is an opportunity for young people to hold politicians accountable for the education of young people because for many years the young people have been ignored despite all of the organizing they have been doing. With this measure the Board would have to listen to us because we [would become] voters,” Quetzal affirmed.
One significant theme for Quetzal and many other fellows in the 2020 cohort is the focus on building meaningful community. In the course she took prior to embarking on her summer project, required as part of the fellowship, Quetzal said she became more conscious of what it means to be a community ally.
“The education that was provided in the class really helped because [it addressed] that when you’re going into fellowships and service learning, you need to make sure that you’re actually going into it with the intention to support the community and not try to co-opt it. And I think that the benefit that I had was that I came from this community and I worked with these organizations, but I had to remind myself that my positionality has changed and so the class really made me think about what my positionality means within my own community. What are my intentions? What am I doing? How can I support and be a true ally to the young people of Oakland?” Quetzal reflected.
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Oakland Measure QQ youth organizers meet during summer 2020. Courtesy of Gema Quetzal
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She furthered, “Electoral organizing is very new to [Oakland Youth Vote]. So we have had a different perspective when approaching Measure QQ. It’s a consistent idea of building community. Often electoral organizing is about following the rules with a focusing only on the process and passing the measure. But we’re coming from the perspective that you can’t pass something without connecting with your community. And is it really for the community if you are not talking to the community?” Read more about Quetzal and her community organizing in the Oakland flatlands here.
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Learn more and donate at YesonQQ.org. Connect with Gema Quetzal on Twitter @gemaquetzal, Facebook at Gema Quetzal, and on Instagram @Oaktown_trucha.
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CCSRE Annual Report
2019/2020
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Explore the Latest from CCSRE
The Center's Annual Report provides an overview of key programs, events, and initiatives for the 2019-2020 academic year as well as feature stories and photos.
Click on the image for the full report.
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2020 Scholars in Service Recipients
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Teresa LaFromboise from the Graduate School of Education is working with the RMP Foundation to better understand and expand suicide prevention programs at the Zuni Pueblo and Acoma Pueblo in New Mexico. LaFromboise is among the first three recipients of the Scholars in Service program.
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Anthony Lising Antonio (GSE) on
California Proposition 16
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BY CARRIE SPECTOR
This year, amid a national reckoning with systemic racism in America, California legislators voted to place Proposition 16 on the November ballot. The initiative, if approved, would allow the state’s public universities and government offices to consider race, gender or ethnicity in making admissions and contracting decisions.
Anthony Lising Antonio is an associate professor at Stanford Graduate School of Education whose research focuses on equity issues in American higher education. He teaches a course on multicultural issues in higher education, including the impact of Proposition 209, the California ballot measure that banned affirmative action in 1996. His work has been cited in amicus briefs submitted to the Supreme Court for several affirmative action cases such as Gratz v. Bollinger, Grutter v. Bollinger and Fisher v. University of Texas. Lising Antonio shares how Americans’ understanding of affirmative action has shifted since the Civil Rights Movement, the effect Proposition 209 has had on higher education in California and alternate ways for universities to ensure a diverse student body. Read the interview here.
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Click here or on the image below to view clips of the
Native American "Get Out the Vote" campaign.
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ARTS + JUSTICE WORKSHOP SERIES
The Future of Law & Literature
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November 5, 2020 | 4:30p PT
This year, the Stanford Humanities Center will support a Geballe Workshop Series on “Arts + Justice.” Led by Professor Jisha Menon and the collective energy of graduate students, we hope to engage with scholars and artists on the implications of justice (in all of its range of meanings), including the cultural terrain of law, aesthetics of resistance, practices of restorative justice, and the position of art within these debates. We truly hope you consider joining in these conversations, as we dialogue across departments and disciplines to learn from and with each other.
Panelists: Guyora Binder, Bernadette Meyer, Austin Sarat, and Robert Weisberg.
Moderator: Aishwary Kumar.
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Hostile Terrain 94
A conversation with Jason de León, Angela Garcia & Students
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This conversation is presented in conjunction with the forthcoming exhibition Hostile Terrain 94.
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November 5, 2020 | 6p PT
Join us for a conversation between Jason De León, anthropologist, curator and faculty at UCLA; Angela Garcia, Associate Professor in Anthropology at Stanford; Jon Ayon Alonso, MFA candidate in Documentary Film and Video; and Ekalan Hou, a junior double majoring in English and Art History. The group will discuss contemporary issues on migration, particularly along the Mexican-American border, through the lens of social anthropology and visual art.
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RACE, TECH + CIVIL SOCIETY
The Color of Money:
Racial Equity & Inclusion in FinTech
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November 12, 2020 | 3p PT
Technology has spurred monumental changes in both the financial services industry and civil society. There remain many concerns about how technology reinforces racial discrimination and economic exploitation. There is also a tremendous amount of potential in emerging technologies and innovation that can be harnessed for responsible credit access, for instance, offering tools that were unimaginable only a short time ago.
This panel will discuss the promises and perils of innovation in the context of financial inclusion, fair lending, and the role of policy in fostering economic and racial equity.
Panelists: Kelly Cochran, FinRegLab; Fabrice Coles, Bank Policy Institute; Chi Chi Wu, National Consumer Law Center
Moderator: Courtney Robinson, Square
This event is part of the Race, Tech + Civil Society webinar series presented as a partnership between CCSRE and the Digital Civil Society Lab and is supported by Stanford HAI.
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ADVANCING RACIAL JUSTICE IN TEACHING
Proposals Due November 20
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The Haas Center for Public Service welcomes proposals from faculty, lecturers, post-docs, and academic staff to offer new (or revised) academic courses for Winter, Spring, or Summer quarters in 2021 that involve students in community engaged learning projects focused on racial justice, with a preference for projects that directly address anti-Blackness.
The Haas Center will award grants of up to $12,000 and funds must be utilized by September 2021. Funds can be used to cover project/course-related costs including honoraria for community partners or guest speakers, instructor costs or teaching assistant stipends, paid undergraduate assistants, and project expenses. Contact Luke Terra.
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
PRISONS, POLICING & RACIAL JUSTICE MOVEMENTS
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