CRG Forum Series

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...

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...

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...

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...

Slavery, Gender, & Colonialism

October 22, 2009

Slavery, Gender, & Colonialism

10.22.2009| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Colonial Anthroponomy and Gender Identity in a Former Slave-Trading Society
Prof. Ugo Nwokeji, African American Studies

By virtue of being an aspect of language, naming expresses power and social change. From this perspective, systems of surnames in precolonial Africa and their transformation during the colonial period is a narrative of power relations in precolonial Africa on the one hand and...

Lawyers in Wartime

October 8, 2009

Lawyers in Wartime

10.08.2009| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Lawyering in the Shadow of War: A Study of Attorneys Representing Guantánamo Detainees
Prof. Laurel Fletcher, Law; Director, International Human Rights Clinic

Who are the attorneys representing Guantánamo detainees? What is the nature of this representation? What lessons can we learn from the experience of habeas counsel about the role of lawyers during this chapter in United States legal history? This paper...

Queering Race, Policing Bodies

September 10, 2009

Queering Race, Policing Bodies

09.10.2009| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

The Face of Gays in the Military: Neoliberalism, Multiculturalism, and the ‘Right To Fight’
Liz Montegary, UC Davis

This paper examines how calls for the repeal of the U.S. military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, mainstream lesbian and gay organizations like the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) often rely on the testimonies of lesbian and gay service members who “come out” against the federally mandated ban on...