CRG Events

Moral Panics & the Fantastic Future Family

September 11, 2011

Moral Panics & the Fantastic Future Family

09.22.2011 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

What’s a Feminist to Do? How New Anti-abortion Strategies and New Technologies are Reconfiguring the Debate over Sex Selection, Race and Abortion
Dr. Sujatha Jesudason, Generations Ahead

One of the more incendiary tactics by anti-choice advocates recently has been to propose legislation to ban abortion for reasons of sex and race. Conflating charges of sex selection with claims of “race-selective...

Political Parties & Grassroots Resistance: New Texts on Race, Immigration & Political Action

October 20, 2011

Political Parties & Grassroots Resistance: New Texts On Race, Immigration & Political Action

10.20.2011 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Join Prof. Taeku Lee, Political Science, Prof. Kim Voss, Sociology, and Prof. Irene Bloemraad, Sociology, in a discussion of their recent publications on race, immigration, and political action.

Rallying for Immigrant Rights: The Fight for Inclusion in 21st Century America
edited by Prof. Kim Voss, Sociology;...

Race, Subjectivity, & Legibility In Literature

November 17, 2011

Race, Subjectivity, & Legibility In Literature

11.17.2011 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Harlem as a ‘Community in Transition’ in Langston Hughes’s Montage of a Dream Deferred
Nilofar Gardezi

My paper works to recover the “lost years” of the 1940s-1960s in African American poetry and culture. I will focus on three critically neglected African American poets Gwendolyn Brooks, Robert Hayden and Melvin Tolson and their understudied mid-century poetry to examine, formally as well as...

School and Home: Racialized and Gendered Connections

February 9, 2012

School and Home: Racialized and Gendered Connections

02.09.2012| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Construction “Appropriate” Families: Education, Inequality, and Teacher Subjectivities
Jessica S. Cobb, Sociology

Classic sociological studies of teachers have examined how teachers establish a professional identity and make meaning in their work through relations with students, parents, colleagues and administrators. However, these studies have been largely decontextualized from conditions of...

Visual Constructions of Race and Stigma In Europe

February 23, 2012

Visual Constructions Of Race And Stigma In Europe

02.23.2013| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Gay Poster-Posturing: Queer Racialized Disjunctions in the (French) Hom(m)o-Republic
Prof. Paola Bacchetta, Gender & Women’s Studies

This talk takes as its point of departure the assemblage constituted by the first to final drafts of the 2011 French Annual Gay Pride March poster that became, in serial mode, centers of passionate polemics around queer, racism and colonialism in France and parts...

Political Encounters & Engagements: A Spotlight On Undergraduate Student Research On Race & Gender

April 5, 2012

Political Encounters & Engagements: A Spotlight On Undergraduate Student Research On Race & Gender

04.05.2012 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Join CRG for our annual forum on emerging research by UC Berkeley undergraduate student grant recipients. Facilitated by Prof. Keith Feldman, Ethnic Studies


“AzNpRyDE”: Pan-Asianism and Youth Culture in an Age of Cyberspace
Son Chau, Ethnic Studies & American Studies

Throughout the ’90s and early 2000s, the earlier...

Racializing Optics: Whiteness, Neoliberalism, and Visual Cultures

February 12, 2013

Racializing Optics: Whiteness, Neoliberalism, and Visual Cultures

02.12.2013| 4:30 – 6:00 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

“Thanks to Berkeley…” Managing Multiculturalism in an Age of Austerity
Prof. Leigh Raiford, African American Studies
Dr. Michael Cohen, American Studies African American Studies

This paper takes the UC’s recent “Thanks to Berkeley…” private capital fund drive and its slick PR campaign – focused on a campus wide photographic project – as a site of contestation over...

“#BLACKLIVESMATTER and Indigenous Resistance: Thinking Through Intersectional Movements

September 17, 2020

“#BLACKLIVESMATTER and Indigenous Resistance: Thinking Through Intersectional Movements

09.17.2020 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM | Zoom Webinar

We invite you to join us for the first installment of “Radical Kinship,” a new series curated and hosted by CRG’s Arts and Humanities Initiative Research Scholar, Alan Pelaez Lopez.

In this first installment, Amber Starks...

Rituals For Grief & Love: A Reading with poets Sade LaNay And Sasha Banks

January 28, 2021

Rituals For Grief & Love: A Reading with poets Sade LaNay And Sasha Banks

01.28.2021| 4:00 – 5:00 PM | Zoom Webinar

Join us in celebrating two new poetry collections, I love you and I’m not dead by Sade LaNayand america, MINE by Sasha Banks. Released at the beginning of COVID-19, both poets’ work cannot be any more timely. LaNay and Banks’ collections each take the approach of archival resurrection to name and imagine Black life outside conditions of social death. In I love you and I’m...

Queer Visual Resistance

March 16, 2023

Queer Visual Resistance

03.16.2023 | 4:00 – 5:00 PM | Zoom Webinar

with Demian DinéYazhi' (Diné Transdisciplinary artist, writer, curator) and Jess X. Snow(writer/director, multi-disciplinary artist, and poet of the Jiangxi Chinese diaspora).

In We Left Them Nothing (2021), queer Indigenous (Naasht'ézhí Tábąąhá & Tódích'íí'nii) artist, Demian DinéYazhi´writes, “witness how a new world emerges in the decaying flesh of colonizer manipulation, illusions of supremacy, & deceptive justice.”...