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SUMMARY:Perverse Modernities: Conversations in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
DESCRIPTION:Perverse Modernities transgresses modern divisions of knowledge that have historically separated the consideration of sexuality\, and its concern with desire\, gender\, bodies\, and performance\, on the one hand\, from the consideration of race\, colonialism\, and political economy\, on the other\, in order to explore how the mutual implication of race\, colonialism\, and sexuality has been rendered perverse and unintelligible within the logics of modernity. \nBooks in the series have elaborated such perversities in the challenge to modern assumptions about historical narrative and the nation-state\, the epistemology of the human sciences\, the continuities of the citizen-subject and civil society\, the distinction between health and morbidity\, and the rational organization of that society into separate spheres. Perverse modernities\, in this sense\, have included queer of color and queer anticolonial subcultures\, racialized sexualized laborers migrating from the global south to the metropolis\, nonwestern desires and bodies and their incommensurability with the gendered\, national or communal meanings attributed to them\, and analyses of the refusals of normative domestic “healthy” life narratives by subjects who inhabit and perform sexual risk\, different embodiments\, and alternative conceptions of life and death. The project also highlights intellectual “perversities” from disciplinary infidelities and epistemological promiscuity\, to theoretical irreverence and heterotopic imaginings. \n\n  \n3:00-3:30 PM Introduction (Lisa Lowe and J. Jack Halberstam)\n3:30-5:00 PM Panel I: Temporality\, Violence\, and the Problem of Rights: Neda Atanasoski\, Elizabeth Freeman\, Chandan Reddy\, Lisa Lowe\n5:00-5:30 PM Break\n5:30-7:00 PM Panel II: Modernity\, Perversion\, and Queer/Trans Survival: Marcia Ochoa\, Cindy Cruz\, Lisa Rofel\, J. Jack Halberstram
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/perverse-modernities-conversations-in-critical-race-and-ethnic-studies-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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SUMMARY:From Ferguson to Salinas: Intersections Against State-Sanctioned Violence
DESCRIPTION:From Ferguson to Salinas: Intersections Against State-Sanctioned Violence \nMarch 6 at the Oakes Learning Center\, University of California\, Santa Cruz \nMarch 7 at the Resource Center for Nonviolence\, Santa Cruz \nAs folks across the country demand justice for Mike Brown and Eric Garner\, community members in Salinas\, CA are fighting the police murders of Angel Ruiz\, 42 (d. March 20\, 2014); Osman Hernandez\, 26 (d May 9\, 2014); Carlos Mejia-Gomez\, 44 (d. May 20\, 2014); Frank Alvarado\, Jr.\, 39 (d. July 10\, 2014); and Jaime Garcia\, 35 (d. October 31\, 2014). “From Ferguson to Salinas: Intersections Against State-Sanctioned Violence” brings together community members\, political organizers\, scholars\, and artists/poets from across California to discuss the ongoing historical crisis of state-sanctioned violence against people of color and the movement to oppose white supremacist policing in the U.S. We hope to build upon the momentum we’ve witnessed over the last six months as people have taken to the streets to demand justice and offer visions of a world in which black and brown lives matter. We seek an analysis of the historical relationship between anti-black and anti-brown violence in the U.S. in the hopes of strengthening cross-racial solidarities. We seek to raise awareness about the intersections between racialization and economic violence\, between police brutality and mass incarceration\, and between intimate and state-based gender violence. We are interested in building connections between those who are grieving the loss of their loved ones\, those who fight to stay alive despite the injustices of the U.S. justice system\, and those who mobilize poetic imaginaries to build the world anew. \nMarch 7\, 10-4 // Resource Center for Nonviolence \nOfrenda y altares Workshop\, 10-11:30 am \nLed by Emma Garcia from the Santa Cruz Arts Council\, this workshop will teach participants how to create altars to commemorate people who have been harmed by the state. We will make four altars in total — one for the indigenous communities who lived\, struggled\, and died at Mission Santa Cruz in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; one for the people persecuted by the anti-Chinese movement in Santa Cruz throughout the nineteenth century; one for Jose Chamales and Francisco Arias\, who were lynched by a mob and hanged from the Water Street Bridge in 1877; and one for the people of Salinas who are being targeted and murdered by police today. Participants will later deliver these altars to sites we visit during the anti-colonial walking tour. \nLunch served by Food Not Bombs \nPoetic Imaginaries Against Violence\, 12-1:30 pm \nReadings and Discussion with Ronaldo Wilson (Assistant Professor\, Literature and Creative Writing\, UCSC\, and author of Poems of the Black Object and Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man) and Tisa Bryant (Critical Studies Faculty\, California Institute of the Arts\, and author of Unexplained Presence\, [the curator]\, and Tzimmes). \nAnti-Colonial Walking Tour\, 2-5 pm \nWe will leave the RCNV at 2 pm to visit sites of white supremacist violence in Santa Cruz\, including Mission Santa Cruz\, the Front St. Post Office (one of four former Chinatowns)\, the alley beside the El Palomar Restaurant (where Eduardo Carrillo’s mural was destroyed by the city)\, the Water Street Bridge\, and the Beach Flats. Each site will be narrated by a different storyteller\, as well as activated by the altars we leave behind.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/from-ferguson-to-salinas-intersections-against-state-sanctioned-violence-2-2/
LOCATION:Resource Center for Non Violence
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SUMMARY:Steven Salaita: “Silencing Dissent: Palestine\, Academic Freedom\, and the New McCarthyism”
DESCRIPTION:Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) Presents a seminar and a public Lecture by Steven Salaita. \nAt 10 A.M. the reading seminar: “Inter/Nationalism from the New World to the Holy Land: Encountering Palestine in American Indian Studies”\n*For Pre-Circulated Readings and to RSVP\, Please Contact Juliana Bruno (JulianaB@ucsc.edu) \nAt 2 P.M. the public talk: “Silencing Dissent: Palestine\, Academic Freedom\, and the New McCarthyism” \nCo-Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Labor\, the IHR Cultures in the Crisis of Capitalism Research Cluster\, Students for Justice in Palestine\, UAW 2865\, the Santa Cruz Resource Center for Non-Violence\, and the Palestine-Israel Action Committee. \nFor Further Information\, Contact Juliana Bruno (JulianaB@ucsc.edu).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/steven-salaita-silencing-dissent-palestine-academic-freedom-and-the-new-mccarthyism-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Steven Salaita: “Inter/Nationalism from the New World to the Holy Land: Encountering Palestine in American Indian Studies”
DESCRIPTION:Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) Presents a seminar and a public Lecture by Steven Salaita. \nAt 10 A.M. the reading seminar: “Inter/Nationalism from the New World to the Holy Land: Encountering Palestine in American Indian Studies”\n*For Pre-Circulated Readings and to RSVP\, Please Contact Juliana Bruno (JulianaB@ucsc.edu) \nAt 2 P.M. the public talk: “Silencing Dissent: Palestine\, Academic Freedom\, and the New McCarthyism” \nCo-Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Labor\, the IHR Cultures in the Crisis of Capitalism Research Cluster\, Students for Justice in Palestine\, UAW 2865\, the Santa Cruz Resource Center for Non-Violence\, and the Palestine-Israel Action Committee. \nFor Further Information\, Contact Juliana Bruno (JulianaB@ucsc.edu).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/steven-salaita-internationalism-from-the-new-world-to-the-holy-land-encountering-palestine-in-american-indian-studies-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:"Doing Critical Race and Ethnic Studies in a Neoliberal Age" Symposium
DESCRIPTION:[vc_column_text width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] \n \nThis spring bears the fruit of many years of student activism at UC Santa Cruz\, namely\, the inauguration of a Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) program dedicated to studying the ideological formations and institutional productions of race and ethnicity. Recognizing that the institutionalization of CRES is both an exciting moment and a reminder of the work we must keep showing up for\, we ask: \n• How can we foster creative ways to keep activist and academic knowledges in conversation?\n• How can scholarly activity be held accountable to social justice struggles?\n• How can we build and strengthen ties across institutional and organizational walls? \nThe context of this moment of institutionalization is the neoliberal erosion of public education and the casualization of all forms of academic labor that have transformed education into a privileged commodity available only to a few and rendered education a site of labor precariousness. At UC Santa Cruz\, recent student experiences with the literal “campus to jail busline” attest to these neoliberal processes. Aimed at fostering critical dialogue about doing critical race work in this historical moment\, this symposium brings together community organizers and social justice activists with campus organizers\, students\, staff\, and faculty from regional community colleges\, state colleges\, and universities to examine militarization\, post-9/11 terror-baiting\, and the criminalization of racialized bodies as the effects of neoliberal policies that cut across campus and community boundaries. \nPlease join us June 6-7 at UC Santa Cruz to strengthen the bonds of solidarity\, combine our knowledges\, and build coalitions around interconnected struggles. \nFree and open to the public. \nNote\, event has been moved to the Humanities Lecture Hall.\n[/vc_column_text] [rb_blank_divider width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [vc_column width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [rb_section_title title=”Schedule” icon=”con-none” border=”true” margin=”0″ width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [vc_column_text width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] \nFriday\, June 6\n4:00 PM: Welcome and Coffee Sandra Harvey (CRES Student Working Group) \n4:05 PM: Blessing by Corrina Gould (Indian People Organizing for Change) \n4:20 PM: State of CRES and Reportback on Critical Ethnic Studies Conference by Jasmine Syedullah (CRES Student Working Group) \n4:30-6:30 PM: Discussion I: The Prison Industrial Complex & the Public University \nFacilitator: Gina Dent (Feminist Studies) \nParticipants: Sadie Reynolds (Sociology\, Cabrillo College)\, OT Quintero (Barrios Unidos)\, Misty Rojo (Justice Now)\, Tash Nguyen* (Sin Barras)\, Ivan Medina (IGNITE) \n  \nSaturday\, June 7\n9:30 AM: Welcome and Coffee William Ladusaw (Dean of Humanities) \n10:00-12:00 PM: Discussion II: Militarization\, Criminalization\, and Racial and Gender Violence \nFacilitator: Christine Hong (Literature) \nParticipants: Lara Kiswani (Arab Resource & Organizing Center)\, Sami Abed (Resource Center for Non-Violence)\, Boian-Christoph Boianov (Committee for Justice in Palestine)\, Tierney Yates (Black Unity Group\, San Jose State)\, Isa Noyola and Marcia Ochoa (El/La Para Translatinas)\, Monica Jones (Sex Worker Outreach Program Phoenix) \n12:00-1:30 PM: Lunch \n1:30-3:30 PM: Discussion III: Political Education and Activist Knowledges \nFacilitator: Cindy Cruz (Education) \nParticipants: Nancy Kim (Asian American & Pacific Islander Resource Center and Ethnic Resource Centers)\, Carolyn Dunn (American Indian Resource Center)\, Corrina Gould (Indian People Organizing for Change)\, Xamuel Banales (Ethnic Studies\, Northern Arizona University)\, Shaila Ramos\, David Padilla\, Mayra Chavez\, Marjory Ruiz (Students Informing Now)\, Michael James (Popular Education 2.0) \n3:30 PM: Coffee Break \n4:00-5:30 PM: Closing Discussion: Envisioning CRES on Campus and Beyond \nFacilitators: Marcia Ochoa (Feminist Studies) and Jessica Whatcott (CRES Student Working Group) \n6:00-7:00 PM: Closing reception with light food and refreshments \n[/vc_column_text] [/vc_column] [rb_blank_divider width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [rb_section_title title=”Sponsors & Acknowledgements” icon=”con-none” border=”true” margin=”0″ width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [vc_column_text width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] \n[vc_column_text width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”]\nPresented by the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Research Cluster\, with generous support from the Division of Humanities; Graduate Student Association; UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies; UC Center for New Racial Studies; Office of Diversity\, Equity and Inclusion; Stevenson College; and the Departments of American Studies\, History\, Literature\, and Politics. \nPoster Art: LA PROMESA DE LOMA PRIETA: QUE NO SE REPITA LA HISTORIA (THE PROMISE OF LOMA PRIETA: THAT HISTORY NOT REPEAT ITSELF)\, the University of California at Santa Cruz\, Oakes College Mural\, by Juana Alicia ©1992. All rights reserved. Photo by Aleixo Goncalves.\n[/vc_column_text] [rb_blank_divider width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [rb_section_title title=”Directions & Parking” icon=”con-none” border=”true” margin=”0″ width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] [vc_column_text width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”] \nParking permits are required seven days a week in the lots located closest to Humanities (Cowell/Stevenson parking lots 107\, 109\, and 110). One-day visitor permits may be purchased from the parking attendants in the lot (during the first hour of the event) or at the main entrance Kiosk (open M-F 8am-1pm). On evenings and weekends\, the pay station in lot 109 will dispense permits for $3 after 4:30pm on weekdays\, and all day on weekends. \n[rb_button size=”medium” url=”http://ihr.ucsc.edu/directions” label=”Location & Directions” target=”_blank” width=”1/1″ el_position=”first last”]\n[/vc_column_text]
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/doing-cres-in-neoliberal-age-2/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sharon Holland: "Perishment: Thoughts on Blackness and the Human/Animal Distinction"
DESCRIPTION:Sharon Holland\, Professor of American Studies at UNC Chapel Hill has been working on a book project entitled “Perishment\,” a theoretical study that takes German philosopher Martin Heidegger’s notion that humans “die” while animals “perish\,” and reads across the theoretical spectrum of works on the human/animal distinction in order to arrive at a fundamental question: what is the relationship of “blackness” to discourse on the animal?  Do black humans “die” or “perish”?  The prevailing thought in the field of African Americanist scholarship is that “blackness” – through Martin Heidegger and Frantz Fanon in particular – is related to “thingness\,” rather than animality.  This theoretical project re-thinks that interpretive paradigm.  I am particularly invested in how movement away from “the animal\,” writ large in the Cartesian framework\, does not allow for much discussion of an ethical commitment (Emanuel Levinas) to the animal within African Americanist discourse.  My intention is to provide both a critique of the present condition in critical discourse on blackness (especially its gendered assumptions) and a model for how to begin such a conversation within the theoretical language available to us on the human/animal divide. \nSharon P. Holland is a graduate of Princeton University (1986) and holds a PhD in English and African American Studies from the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor (1992).  She is the author of RAISING THE DEAD: READINGS OF DEATH AND (BLACK) SUBJECTIVITY (Duke UP\, 2000)\, which won the Lora Romero First Book Prize from the American Studies Association (ASA) in 2002.  She is also co-author of a collection of trans-Atlantic Afro-Native criticism with Professor Tiya Miles (American Culture\, UM\, Ann Arbor) entitled Crossing Waters/ Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country (Duke University Press\, 2006). Professor Holland is also responsible for bringing a feminist classic\, THE QUEEN IS IN THE GARBAGE by Lila Karp to the attention of The Feminist Press (Summer 2007) for publication (2007).  She is the author of The Erotic Life of Racism (Duke University Press\, 2012)\, a theoretical project that explores the intersection of Critical Race\, Feminist\, and Queer Theory.  She is also at work on the final draft of another book project entitled simply\, “little black girl.”  You can see her work on food\, writing and all things equestrian on her blog\, http://theprofessorstable.wordpress.com//.  She is currently at work on a new project\, “Perishment” an investigation of the human/animal distinction and the place of discourse on blackness within that discussion. She is presently a Professor in the Department of American Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill. \nPresented with generous support from: the Institute for Humanities Research\, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) and the Feminist Studies Department at UCSC.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sharon-holland-2-20-14-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Joanne Barker Seminar
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\nJoanne 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.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/joanne-barker-seminar-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131003T160000
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SUMMARY:Joanne Barker: "In Debt: A Reconsideration of 'Race\, Empire\, and the Crisis of the Subprime' from Manna-Hata"
DESCRIPTION:Intervening in populist\, Occupy Wall Street discourses about the subprime crisis and its remedies\, this talk critically uncovers Manna Hata from Manhattan. Offering a long genealogical view of the militarized dispossession\, genocide\, and enslavement of Native peoples in order to problematize the subprime crisis as a signifier of racism\, this talk focuses on territorial expansion\, resource destruction and extraction\, labor exploitation\, and debt as past and present depredations upon Native nations and their citizens within the United States. In so doing\, this talk addresses Native debt in ways left unaccounted for in a proliferation of recent scholarship on debt\, including the special issue of American Quarterly\, “Race\, Empire\, and the Crisis of the Subprime.” By tracing current U.S. and global economic formations and their crises to inaugural violence upon Native nations and their citizens\, this talk examines the foundational nature of the U.S. military foreclosure of Native lands as part of its territorial homeland and its appropriation of Native bodies into its system of indentured labor relative to the crisis of home mortgages and their speculative securities. \nJoanne 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.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/joanne-barker-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130520T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20130520T173000
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SUMMARY:Lisa Lowe: "Sugar\, Tea\, Opium\, and Coolies: The Intimacies of Four Continents"
DESCRIPTION:Lisa Lowe\nThis lecture examines the fetishism of colonial commodities as a mediation of often obscured connections between the transatlantic African slave trade to the Americas\, settler colonialism\, the import of Asian indentured labor\, the East Indies and China trades\, and the emergence of European liberal ideas of citizenship\, wage labor\, and free trade in the late-18th and early-19th centuries. \nLisa Lowe is a professor of English and American Studies at Tufts University and a scholar in the fields of comparative literature\, and the cultural politics of colonialism and migration. Before joining Tufts\, she taught in the Literature Department at UC San Diego for over two decades. She is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations\, the UC Humanities Research Institute\, the American Council of Learned Societies\, the School of Advanced Study – University of London\, and the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. Lowe is the author of Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms (Cornell UP)\, Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Politics (Duke UP)\, and coauthor of The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital (Duke UP). Her current project\, The Intimacies of Four Continents\, is a study of the global conditions for liberal economy\, knowledge\, culture\, and politics.\nSeminar with Lisa Lowe: \nTuesday\, May 21\, 2013 • 11:00 AM • Humanities 1 Building\, Room 210\nTo receive the seminar readings\, please contact Courtney Mahaney at cmahaney@ucsc.edu. \n  \nThis event is organized and sponsored by the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Program. Cosponsored by the University of California Center for New Racial Studies\, the Division of Humanities at UCSC\, the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, Oakes College\, and Stevenson College.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lisa-lowe-sugar-tea-opium-and-coolies-the-intimacies-of-four-continents-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Roderick A. Ferguson: "Comparative Ethnic Studies: Retrieving\, Redistributing\, and Holding the Institution Under Erasure"
DESCRIPTION:This talk looks at the question of comparative ethnic studies through the critique and the rearticulation of comparative projects. It goes on to ask the question of how one might institutionalize and let one’s institutional practice and project be shaped by the critique of institutionalization. \nRoderick A. Ferguson is professor of race and critical theory. He is the author of Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique (2004) and The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference (2012). He is also the co-editor with Grace Hong of Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization (2011). \n \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/roderick-a-ferguson-comparative-ethnic-studies-retrieving-redistributing-and-holding-the-institution-under-erasure-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20121113T160000
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SUMMARY:Sunaina Maira: "More Delicate Than a Flower\, Yet Harder Than a Rock: Human Rights in the Shadow of an Empire"
DESCRIPTION:This talk focuses on the political mobilization of young people targeted by the War on Terror\, exploring what it means to challenge the U.S. imperial state from within and to engage in solidarity with those beyond its borders who are targets of imperial violence. It draws on an ethnographic study of South Asian\, Arab\, and Afghan American youth in Silicon Valley and new forms of politics and coalition-building that have emerged since 9/11 among youth who are seen as prime suspects in the domestic War on Terror. What does it mean to view the political subjecthood of South Asian\, Arab\, and Afghan American youth through the theoretical lenses of critical ethnic studies and work on imperialism and settler colonialism? The research demonstrates that while college-age youth often turn to the framework of civil rights and human rights in responding to regimes of surveillance and policing and opposing overseas wars and occupation\, they also have to confront the failure of liberal rights-talk in particular instances of political organizing that go beyond a politics of multicultural recognition. \nSunaina Maira is Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California\, Davis. She is the author of Desis in the House: Indian American Youth Culture in New York City and Missing: Youth\, Citizenship\, and Empire After 9/11. She is coeditor (with Elisabeth Soep) of Youthscapes: The Popular\, the National\, the Global and (with Rajini Srikanth) of Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America\, which won the American Book Award in 1997. Maira has worked with various antiwar\, civil rights\, and immigrant rights groups in the Bay Area.\nThis event is organized and sponsored by the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Program. Cosponsored by the University of California Center for New Racial Studies\, the Division of Humanities at UCSC\, and the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. Staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sunaina-maira-more-delicate-than-a-flower-yet-harder-than-a-rock-human-rights-in-the-shadow-of-an-empire-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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