Events
Freedom and Race
UCSC Night at the Museum: “Global 1968 – Race and Revolution around the World”
Museum of Art & History 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United States6:00pm - doors open | 6:30pm - program begins Fifty years ago, countries and cities around the globe erupted with protests and revolutionary movements demanding change and seeking to create a better future. Featuring four renowned historians, "Global 1968" spotlights marginalized groups and lesser-known events and places in the global upheavals of 1968—from Mexico to […]
And Then They Came for Us: “From the Incarceration of Japanese Americans to the Travel Ban”
Del Mar TheatreSeventy-five years ago, Executive Order 9066 paved the way to the profound violation of constitutional rights that resulted in the forced incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans. "And Then They Came for Us" brings history into the present, retelling this difficult story and following Japanese American activists as they speak out against the Muslim registry and […]
Tyler Stovall: “White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea”
Rio Sands Hotel in Aptos 116 Aptos Beach Dr, Aptos, CAAptos Community Reads presents: White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea Presented by: Tyler Stovall, Dean of Humanities, University of California, Santa Cruz The relationship between freedom and race has been one of the key themes of modern society and politics in the Western world. The enduring presence of racism in the history of America, a nation […]
Questions That Matter:”Freedom and Race”
Kuumbwa Jazz CenterAmerica has famously been called "the land of the free," and yet when the "Star Spangled Banner" was written, people of African descent were enslaved within its borders, including by the song's own author, Francis Scott Key. Today, the relationship between freedom and race continues to vex the United States and the rest of the […]