CRG Events

Geographies of Violence and Resistance: A Spotlight on Undergraduate Research

April 18, 2013

Geographies of Violence and Resistance: A Spotlight on Undergraduate Research

04.18.2013 | 4:00 – 6:00 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Arizona: A Contested Story, Whose History?
Salvador Gutiérrez Peraza, History

In 2010, the Arizona legislature banned the teaching of Ethnic Studies in public schools (K-12) via House Bill 2281. This bill specifically targeted Tucson Unified School District’s Mexican-American Studies program. According to the proponents of this bill, the MAS program was “dangerous”...

Queer Tensions, Racialized Erotics, & Hostile Territories

April 4, 2013

Queer Tensions, Racialized Erotics, & Hostile Territories

04.02.2013 | 4:30 – 6:00 PM | 691 Barrows Hall


Queer Compulsions: Race, Nation, and Sexuality in the Affairs of Yone Noguchi
Prof. Amy Sueyoshi, San Francisco State University

Beauty = Power: Blade the Vampire Hunter and Homoerotic Super-Heroism
Prof. Darieck Scott, African American Studies

Revising Freedom: Law, Literature, the Racial Imaginary

March 21, 2013

Revising Freedom: Law, Literature, the Racial Imaginary

03.21.2013| 4:30 – 6:00 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Blurring the Lines of Race and Freedom:
Mulattoes in the Early-Nineteenth-Century United States
A.B. Wilkinson, History

Why Our Post-Race Society Still Has A Race Problem: How Race and Freedom Go Hand-in-Hand
Michael McGee, African American Studies

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...

Mapping Colonial Amnesia: Filipino/American Cultural Landscapes

October 18, 2012

Mapping Colonial Amnesia: Filipino/American Cultural Landscapes

10.18.2012 | 4:30 – 6:00 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Blues Narratives and Indigenous Imaginaries: On a Critical Filipino/American Poetics of Place
Thea Quiray Tagle, UC San Diego

This talk engages with transformations in the poetics and politics of Filipino American decolonial cultural productions made by San Francisco Bay Area-based artists and activists in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Beginning from the blues poetry of Al...

A Crisis in Paris: Xenophobia, Stigma, and Empire in France

October 4, 2012

A Crisis in Paris: Xenophobia, Stigma, and Empire in France

10.04.2012| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Mon petit chien de guerre: Conflating Jewish and Homosexual Identity during the Dreyfus Affair
Cameron McKee, History and History of Art

The Dreyfus Affair, as the scandal came to be known, was sparked in 1894 when Alfred Dreyfus, a French artillery officer, was accused of communicating confidential military documents to the German attaché. Dreyfus’s show trial and subsequent conviction...

Vexed Histories: Rethinking the Trajectories of Black Studies, Ethnic Studies, & Women’s Studies

April 12, 2012

Vexed Histories: Rethinking the Trajectories of Black Studies, Ethnic Studies, & Women’s Studies

04.12.2012 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

The Third World Liberation Front at UC Berkeley 1969: A Counter-Hegemonic Struggle for Radical Pedagogy & Revolutionary Curriculum
Ziza Delgado, Ethnic Studies

This presentation will discuss the struggle for Ethnic Studies at UCB via the Third World Liberation Front (TWLF), as a counter-hegemonic project within the Euro-centric patriarchal...

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...

Feminism, Family, and Confucianism in Asian America

March 22, 2012

Feminism, Family, and Confucianism in Asian America

03.22.2012 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Presented at the CRG Thursday Forum, Feminism, Family, and Confucianism in Asian America, March 10, 2012

Family Sacrifices: Chinese American Neo-Confucianism
Prof. Russell Jeung, San Francisco State University

This paper explores the worldviews and moral frameworks of non-religious Chinese Americans, with a particular focus on Confucian values. Through in-depth interviews of 20 Chinese...

Interventions In Decolonial Thought & Whiteness Studies

March 8, 2012

Interventions In Decolonial Thought & Whiteness Studies

03.02.2012| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Who’s Afraid of Whiteness Studies?: Toward a Minoritized Analysis of Abolition
Prof. Zeus Leonardo, Education

This presentation engages White abolition from the perspectives and lives of people of color. First, it will offer a brief review of the abolitionist strategy, particularly as it attempts to convince and compel Whites to ‘stop being White.’ Second, it relates these provocations...