Life in Hell: How Capitali$m $aving Capitali$m From Capitali$m Should Fire Our Political Imagination
speakers:
Professor Ruthie Gilmore, USC
“There is one black man serving a term in the White House, and about one million black men serving terms in the big house...”
Contact Zones: California Public Schools and Encounters Across Lines of Racialized Ethnicity, Gender, and Social Class
Presenter:
"The Relatively Hidden, but Tectonic, Dynamics of Social Class in the Experiences of Elementary School Children in California," Prof. Barrie Thorne, Sociology
Presenter2:
"Negotiating "Otherness": Exploring the Contact Zone of University-Community Partnerships in an Urban Context," Emily Gleason, Education
Date:
Thursday, November 5, 2009 - 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Location:
691 Barrows Hall
CONTACT ZONES: CALIFORNIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND ENCOUNTERS ACROSS LINES OF RACIALIZED ETHNICITY, GENDER, AND SOCIAL CLASS
The Relatively Hidden, but Tectonic, Dynamics of Social Class in the Experiences of Elementary School Children in California
Prof. Barrie Thorne, Sociology, Gender & Women's Studies
Weapons of Mass Instruction
speakers:
Professor Mel Chen, Gender and Women's Studies
Funie Hsu, Education
In 1901, three years after the U.S. defeated the Spanish in the Philippines, the first wave of a new breed of American soldiers arrived on the newly annexed lands aboard the ship the U.S.A.T. Thomas.
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Contextualized Formations of Black Identity
speakers:
Professor Daniel Perlstein, Education
Professor Na’ilah Suad Nasir, African American Studies / Education
The Brooklyn, New York based civil rights activist Sonny Carson once noted that the schoolhouses he attended were like prisons, and that the prisons themselves were posing as schoolhouses—metal bars ran down the windows of both. Various authors such as playwright George Bernard Shaw, sociologist Michel Foucault, and even the band Pink Floyd have drawn similar comparisons between institutions of learning and institutions of incarceration.
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