CRG Events

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 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;...

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...

Contemporary Dance as Subversive Pedagogies

January 26, 2012

Contemporary Dance as Subversive Pedagogies

01.26.2012 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Techniques for Black (Male) Re/Dress
Naomi Elizabeth Bragin, 
Performance Studies

Waacking/punkin’ is a street dance sometimes confused with vogue but claiming West Coast roots in gay black and Latino club culture of 1970’s Los Angeles. The style was rebirthed into the global mainstream through mass media appearances on last season’s So You Think You Can Dance. Today it is generally straight-identified...

Cultural Interventions in Colonial Projects

December 1, 2011

Cultural Interventions in Colonial Projects

12.01.2011 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Consumption, Publics, and Democracy on Rosebud Reservation
Prof. Tom Biolsi, Ethnic Studies
By the 1930s Lakota people on Rosebud Reservation were avid consumers of mail-order catalogs (especially Sears and Wards) and of local and national radio broadcasts. These new media enabled a sustained interest among Indian people in dressing fashionably (especially women) and enjoying music (mostly Country at first,...

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...

Challenging Dominant Discourse Through Holistic Healing

October 6, 2011

Challenging Dominant Discourse Through Holistic Healing

10.06.2011 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Writing the Body into (Well-) Being
Tala Khanmalek, Ethnic Studies

As almost all research on the Iranian diaspora states, studies about psychopathologies of Iranian immigrants including first-, second-, and third-generations are scarce although this population experiences a mental health disparity. The few studies that have been done apply limited understandings of mental...

The Stakes of Race, Color, & Belonging

September 26, 2011

The Stakes of Race, Color, & Belonging

09.26.2011 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Skin Tone Stratification Among Black Americans, 2001-2003
Ellis Monk Jr., Sociology

In the past few decades a dedicated collection of scholars have examined the matter of skin tone stratification within the Black American population and found that complexion has significant net effects on a variety of stratification outcomes. These analyses relied heavily on data collected between 1950 and 1980. In...

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...

Postcolonial and Liberal Discourses of the Family in Secular Polities

November 16, 2010

Postcolonial and Liberal Discourses of the Family in Secular Polities

11.16.2010 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Secularism, Sexuality, and Religious Liberty: A Postcolonial Genealogy
Prof. Saba Mahmood, Social Cultural Anthropology

The relegation of religion and the family to the private sphere is widely regarded as a key feature of modern secular societies. While postcolonial states of South Asia and the Middle East are heir to this arrangement, they are also distinct in that they...