Joanne Barker will be lead a seminar followed by a Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) program building discussion. Please register to obtain the seminar readings.

Joanne Barker (Lenape [Delaware Tribe of Indians]) is associate professor of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University. She received her Ph.D. in the History of Consciousness Department from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 2000 on the work of identity and identification in indigenous struggles for sovereignty and self-determination. She is author of Native Acts: Law Recognition, and Cultural Authenticity (Duke University Press, 2011) and editor of Sovereignty Matters: Locations of Contestation and Possibility in Indigenous Struggles for Self-Determination (Nebraska, 2005). She is involved in cultural repatriation rights, environmental issues, human rights, and anti-war politics. She has been the recipient of fellowships from the University of California, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Ford Foundation.