Undergraduate
Grants Program
The Center for Race and Gender (CRG) at the University
of California Berkeley, announces the availability of grants of
$200 to $1,000 to fund undergraduates for research or creative projects
that address issues of race and gender. Topics should be consonant
with the CRG’s mandate to promote increased understanding
of race and gender and their intersections in a wide variety of
social, cultural, and institutional contexts, especially on the
Berkeley campus and its neighboring communities, but also in California,
the nation, or the world. Projects may be oriented toward academic
research or may approach race and gender issues from the perspectives
of the media, fine arts, and performing arts. These grants are designed
to provide Berkeley undergraduates with an opportunity to explore
questions of interest to them via media of their choosing.
For more information,
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Graduate
Student Small Grants Program
The Center for Race and Gender (CRG) at the University
of California Berkeley, announces the availability of grants of
$500 to $2,000 to support graduate student research or creative
projects that address issues of race and gender. Topics should be
consonant with the CRG's mandate to promote increased understanding
of race and gender and their intersections in a wide variety of
social, cultural, and institutional contexts, especially on the
Berkeley campus and its neighboring communities, but also in California,
the nation, or the world. Projects may be oriented toward academic
research or may approach race and gender issues from the perspectives
of the media, fine arts, and performing arts. Projects that deal
with both race and gender are strongly preferred.
For more information,
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"Tangled
Strands" Interdisciplinary Dissertation Workshop
Every other
fall, the CRG sponsors a dissertation workshop for the benefit of
doctoral students whose projects deal with the interaction of race,
gender, and other dimensions of difference and inequality. The 2007
dissertation workshop will take place over three days at the Westerbeke
Guest Ranch, just outside of Sonoma, California beginning with dinner
on Thursday, November 29 and running through lunch on Sunday, December
2, 2007.
2007
Call for Applications (click here for the full version
on pdf or Word
doc)
Applications
consist of two items only:
1. Three copies of a current curriculum vitae
2. Three copies of the dissertation proposal, or if the work is well
underway, a statement—no more than 10 pages double spaced—of the
specific issues being addressed, the intellectual approach, and
the materials being studied
Application materials must reach the Dissertation Workshop Program,
Center for Race and Gender, 642 Barrows Hall, MC # 1074, University
of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-1074 NO LATER THAN Thursday, October 18 , 2007 by 3:00pm.
Workshop participants will be selected on the content of the submitted
projects, the potential for useful exchanges among them, and the
benefits of including a wide range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary
approaches, intellectual traditions, historical periods, and world
areas or cultures. Applicants will be informed whether or not they
have been selected for the workshop by November 1, 2007.
For further information about the workshop, or eligibility, please
contact the Director of the CRG, Professor Evelyn
Nakano Glenn or the Director of the CSSC, Professor Michael
Lucey.
Fall 2002 "Tangled Strands" Dissertation Abstracts
Center for Race and Gender Projects
The Colorism Project
The Center for Race and Gender is excited to announce
a new research initiative on colorism. Colorism is a form of discrimination
that structures inequality by creating social evaluations based
on skin tone. Colorism is in effect when one’s complexion
becomes the basis for awarding, restricting or denying access to
power and resources in various arenas of society. Such discrimination
produces a skin tone hierarchy.
The CRG welcomes participation and input from other
scholars conducting research in this area or on related issues of
skin tone bias. This initiative is being led by Percy Hintzen, African
American Studies and Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Ethnic Studies and Gender
and Women's Studies. If you would like to be a part of this exciting
initiative, please contact the CRG by phone: (510) 643-4244 or by e-mail.
Environmental
Justice Discussion Series
A synthesis seems to be possible among the
growing number of Berkeley researchers who are studying racial,
economic and environmental justice in America. This discussion series
creates an opportunity for the presentation and exchange of ideas,
and for the development of convergent possibilities that will support
grant proposals, course and research development, conferences, and
institutional reform. Among other topics, the series will focus
explicitly on the reparations movement, racial equality in metropolitan
development, the racialization of labor opportunities, the whiteness
of America's "commons," and the use of prisons and immigration
rules as a means to secure racialized, cheap, controlled labor for
public purposes. Such topics have been approached separately in
the past. The challenge of the series is to see whether more powerful
themes emerge from attention to these topics as one.
The purpose
of the series is to bring together faculty and students who will
ponder and debate issues related to the overall theme. We invite
those who can committ to attending all or most of the series. There
will not be a formal lecture, but rather a brief informal presentation
to be followed by open discussion. Check our Events page for information on upcoming activities or view
a flier for the series.
CRG Research
Working Groups
CRG sponsors
on-going research working groups on various topics related to the
intersections of race and gender. Working groups made up of faculty,
graduate students from UCB and neighboring institutions, as well
as independent scholars, form around a common topic and meet regularly
to further research and understanding of the topic area.
Pacific Island Studies, Fall 2008
The Pacific Island Studies Research Working Group offers a forum for scholars working on, or interested in, Pacific Island histories and cultures at the University of California, Berkeley. It is designed to bring together scholars and graduate students to meet, share, and discuss work on the Pacific. This group will meet weekly to read and discuss work on the Pacific in a congenial Pacific environment. This group will also organize a Pacific Island Studies Speaker Series that will collaborate with and support the objectives and interests of the Pacific Island Studies Research Working Group.
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN JOINING OR WANT FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT FUIFUILUPE NIUMEITOLU AT FUIFUILUPE@BERKELEY.EDU
Past Working Groups
Gender
and Visual Culture:
This working group will explore how race and gender are produced
through visual culture. The specific technology of photography
will serve as a springboard for conversations. We are also concerned
with how race and gender formations have impacted visual representational
practices including painting and sculpture, film, television,
advertising, and new digital technologies. Our aim is to make
sense of the long, entangled and inextricable relationships among
race, gender and visuality. If you are interested in joining or
would like more information, please contact Leigh Raiford (lraiford@berkeley.edu)
or Elizabeth Abel (eabel@berkeley.edu).
Blackness
and Indigeneity and the Beginnings of the Modern World:
This working group will explore the links, differences and mutual
implications of indigeneity and blackness in the emerging symbolic
order of the modern world-system, with a particular focus on the
role of scopic regimes in their respective constructions. We will
pay particular attention to the emergence of America, Africa,
and Europe in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. If you are
interested in learning more or joining the group, please contact
Professor Nelson Maldonado-Torres.
Racial
Reparations:
Those interested in working on racial reparations are
invited to contact Professor Charles
Henry. The group will place reparations in a global context
dealing with apology and truth and reconciliation. It will also
investigate local, state and national efforts on reparations including
grassroots organizations. Finally, it will discuss solutions ranging
from monetary to cultural.
War,
Women and Dislocation:
Women and children constitute the majority of forcibly
displaced people in the world. Yet, they remain virtually invisible
in the formulation of policies and intervention programs and are
rarely understood as independent entities with their own issues
and concerns. A working group will convene in Spring 2004 to explore
the impacts of conflict on women and the ways that gender features
centrally in thinking about and analyzing war, socio-economic,
political and cultural dislocations, and migration. Graduate students
and faculty interested in these issues are invited to contact
Professor Khatharya Um.
Transnational
Cultures:
This is a closed-membership group organized by Professors Percy
Hintzen (African American Studies) and Jocelyne
Guilbault (Music). This year members will be reading and discussing
around the theme of "Placing Popular Culture: Nation, Diaspora,
and Governmentality."
Indigeneity
Working Group:
Political recognition (primarily by the West) of indigenous
groups has been and continues to be a primary stuggle as we begin
the 21st century. However, indigenous peopls have made a critique
of these terms of recognition a critical part of the political
struggle. Legal and racial identities are primarily legacies of
Imperialism, and indigenous groups are re-imagining, challenging,
and inventing new modes of political activism that challenge the
contours of this political recognition. The Indigeneity working
group is organizing an international conference to adress these
and other issues. Contact Steve
Crum for more information.
CRG Dissertation Writing Group on Race & Ethnicity
The CRG now sponsors an interdisciplinary dissertation writing group. We
welcome graduate students from both the Humanities and Social Sciences who
share a common scholarly interest in the study of race and ethnicity. The
purpose of the group is to support and encourage members to start,
continue, or finish their dissertations. Each member is asked to submit a
chapter draft that the group discusses and critiques. We meet once a
month. Please contact Alia Yap at acyap@berkeley.edu for any inquiries.
CRG Faculty
Research and Fellows
Faculty
Research
CRG provides a home for interdisciplinary
research projects on race and gender funded through an extramural
source. Faculty are encouraged to consider pursuing private funding
for projects that fall within the CRG mission and having CRG administer
those grants.
During 2002, the Center supported a Ford Foundation-funded project
entitled "Multicultural Education and Critical Pedagogy."
UCB Professor Elaine Kim and four Comparative Ethnic Studies graduate
students studied and compiled a report of recent research and writing
on multicultural, immigrant, and language diversity education, as
well as, race and education, gender and education, and critical
pedagogy (April 2001-August 2002).
CRG
Fellows
CRG provides a home for interdisciplinary
research projects on race and gender funded through Fellowships. From the Fall 2005 to Spring 2006 the CRG hosted two Post-Doctoral Fellows.
 Rebecca Hall was the CRG's Mellon Foundation Post-doctoral Fellow. Her research focuses on slavery, historical constructions of racialized gender and contemporary legacies of the same. She earned a J.D. from Boalt Hall and completed her PhD in Histor. Her dissertation Not Killing Me Softly: African American Women, Slave Revolts, and Historical Constructions of Racialized Gender develops “a trans-Atlantic social history of African American women in slave revolts and examines the discourse surrounding these women.”
Joanne
Barker was the CRG's Ford Foundation Post-doctoral Fellow. She completed her
PhD in the History of Consciousness Department at UC Santa Cruz.
She is an assistant professor of American Indian Studies at San
Francisco State University and an enrolled member of the Delaware
Tribe of Indians. Her primary areas of research include indigenous
jurisprudence, women ’s/gender studies, and cultural studies.
CRG
Forum
In an effort to provide opportunities for
faculty and students to share emerging work on the race/gender nexus,
the Center for Race and Gender is hosting a series of bi-monthly Afternoon
Forums. At each meeting one or more faculty and/or graduate students
will give brief presentations, followed by open discussion. These
gatherings will take place during the first and third weeks of each month of
the semester at 4:00 pm in the CRG Conference Room on the 6th floor
of Barrows, Room 691. Light refreshments will be served. Check our Events page for a schedule of
upcoming talks. If you are interested in presenting or have suggestions
for topics and presenters please contact
us.
"Faultlines:
News & Notes from the CRG"
Each semester
the Center for Race and Gender publishes a newsletter about CRG
events and race and gender issues, including both political struggles
and cutting edge research, on campus.
Spring 2008 Faultlines now available!
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