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Lora Bartlett: "Migrant Teachers: How American Schools Import Labor"
College 8, Room 301 College Eight 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMigrant Teachers investigates an overlooked trend in U.S. public schools today: the growing dependence on overseas trained teachers, as federal mandates require K-12 schools to employ qualified teachers or risk funding cuts. A narrowly technocratic view of teachers as subject specialists has led districts to look abroad, Lora Bartlett argues, resulting in transient teaching professionals […]
Rick Baldoz: "The Strange Career of the Filipino 'National': Race, Immigration, and the Bordering of U.S. Empire"
College 8, Room 301 College Eight 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk will explore the incorporation of Filipino immigrants in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century, focusing on the interplay of colonialism, racial boundaries and citizenship policy. The influx of Filipinos to the United States that followed the annexation of the Philippines confounded American authorities tasked with enforcing traditional racial […]
Jane McAlevey: "Beating Attack on Workers by Building High Participation Unions"
College 8, Room 301 College Eight 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJane McAlevey's first book, Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell), published by Verso Press, was named the "most valuable book of 2012" by The Nation Magazine. She has served as Executive Director and Chief Negotiator for SEIU Nevada, as National Deputy Director for Strategic Campaigns of the Healthcare Division for SEIU, and she was the Campaign Director of the one of […]
Elsa Davidson: “The Burdens of Aspiration: Schools, Youth, and Success in the Divided Social Worlds of Silicon Valley”
College 8, Room 301 College Eight 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesElsa Davidson is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Montclair State University in New Jersey. Her research focuses on processes of aspiration formation and social reproduction among youth from diverse class, racial, and ethnic backgrounds. In particular, Dr. Davidson is interested in how young people forge aspirations in relation to experiences of schooling, rapid social and […]
Julie Sze: “Situating Sustainability Discourse in Shanghai: Global Flows and Urban Transformations in a Warming World”
College 8, Room 301 College Eight 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk is drawn from Sze's current book project which examines flows, fears and fantasies in contemporary urban and global environmental culture, with a sustained look at Shanghai in China. She focuses here on Dongtan, a failed eco-city proposal, framing it within multiple ideological and spatial contexts. Julie Sze is an Associate Professor of American […]
Mohammed Bamyeh: “Revolutionary Ethics and the Making of the Arab Spring”
College 8, Room 301 College Eight 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Sociology Colloquium Series presents: Mohammed Bamyeh Professor of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh "Revolutionary Ethics and the Making of the Arab Spring" Mohammed Bamyeh Co-sponsored by History of Consciousness, Politics, and Colleges 9 & 10 For more information: http://socyeventsucsc.wordpress.com and http://urban.ihr.ucsc.edu For accessibility, contact: Barbara Laurence, balauren@ucsc.edu Event Contact: Deborah Gould, dbgould@ucsc.edu
Scott Saul, “What You See Is What You Get”?: Wattstax, Richard Pryor, and the Secret History of the Black Aesthetic in 1970s LA”
College 8, Room 301 College Eight 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Urban Studies Research Cluster presents Scott Saul, ""What You See Is What You Get"?: Wattstax, Richard Pryor, and the Secret History of the Black Aesthetic in 1970s LA". This talk revolves around Pryor’s role as narrator of and interviewee in the 1973 documentary film Wattstax (about the 1972 concert held at the LA Coliseum), examines […]