CRG Forum Series

#IDENTITY by The Color Of New Media

November 2, 2017

#IDENTITY by The Color Of New Media

11.02.2017| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

CRG's Research Working Group, The Color of New Media, has recently completed its first manuscript for publication, an edited volume called #identity, about Twitter and race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and nationality. The two faculty organizers of The Color of New Media, and two contributing authors (one current Berkeley...

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Media & Medicine: Racialized Productions of Public Health

February 8, 2018

Media & Medicine: Racialized Productions of Public Health

02.08.2018| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

From Deracialized Bodies to Pathological Biomedical Subjectivities: Constructing Difference in Media Coverage of Health
Charles Briggs, Anthropology

This paper looks at how notions of race are produced in ever-expanding US news coverage of health issues. Much coverage contributes to post-racial perspectives that render racial inequities invisible by constructing bodies, medical...

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The Promise of Patriarchy: Women and The Nation of Islam

February 18, 2018

The Promise of Patriarchy: Women and The Nation of Islam

02.15.2018 | 5:30 – 7:00 PM | Fannie Lou Hamer Black Resource Center, Hearst Annex D-3, UC Berkeley

The CRG Thursday Forum Series & Fannie Lou Hamer Black Resource Center present…

The Promise of Patriarchy: Women and the Nation of Islam
Ula Taylor, African American Studies

The patriarchal structure of the Nation of Islam (NOI) promised black women the prospect of finding a provider and a protector among the organization’s men...

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Bodies In Process: Trans Politics & Possibilities

March 8, 2018

Bodies In Process: Trans Politics & Possibilities

03.08.2018 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

The Urgent Problem of a Travesti Nosotrx
Giancarlo Cornejo, Department of Rhetoric

This paper offers a reading of the Peruvian LGBTQ theater play Desde Afuera (From the Outside). Contrary to usual modes of understanding travestis as a minoritarian group, this paper suggests the possibility of envisioning travestismo as a new form of constructing peruvianness. It focuses on the possibilities of...

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Bodies Of Knowledge: Race, Power & Pedagogy

April 5, 2018

Bodies Of Knowledge: Race, Power & Pedagogy

04.05.2018 | 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 140 Barrows Hall

All You Need is Love: “Benevolent Whiteness” and Love Language as Colonial Violence
Natalee Kēhaulani Bauer, PhD

This presentation argues that love language in urban schools, particularly when coupled with “benevolent whiteness” (ideological whiteness gendered feminine), is an invocation of colonial violence rather than an act of “authentic caring” (Noddings, 2015) or “reciprocal love” (Jackson,...

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Histories Of Empire and Transcolonial Circuits Of Freedom

September 13, 2018

Histories Of Empire and Transcolonial Circuits Of Freedom

09.13.2018| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

In 1768 a refugee man, woman, and her two children arrived on the shores of southern Cuba. Like dozens of people before them, they had escaped by boat from the horrors of sugar plantation slavery in British Jamaica, more than one hundred miles to the south. At the time, Spain had a policy offering religious asylum and manumission to escapees from slavery in the colonies of its Protestant imperial rivals. What did it mean to be a...

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Navigating Borders and Violence: Indigenous Maya Families and Central American Children In Migration

September 20, 2018

Navigating Borders and Violence: Indigenous Maya Families and Central American Children In Migration

09.27.2018| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 820 Barrows Hall, Social Science Matrix

“It is a crime to be young here”: Violence against Minors in Central America, Mexico, and the United States
Leisy J. Abrego, Department of Chicana/o Studies, UCLA

US government officials have labeled Central American young people arriving in recent years as everything from representatives of a “humanitarian crisis” to a “...

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The Place of Paris In Vietnamese Diasporic Fiction

September 27, 2018

The Place of Paris In Vietnamese Diasporic Fiction

09.27.2018| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Aimee Phan is one of a group of Vietnamese American writers whose recent work has grappled with the complex legacy of Paris as a site crucial to the Vietnamese diaspora and its imaginary. In his presentation, Karl Ashoka Britto will discuss Phan’s The Reeducation of Cherry Truong, a novel that tells the story of a Vietnamese refugee family split between the United States and France. He will consider in...

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Archives of Justice and Abolition

October 4, 2018

Archives of Justice and Abolition

10.04.2018| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

In the (After) Life: Black Lesbian Spatialities under the Emergence of Homonationalism
by Kerby Lynch

This dissertation explores the artifacts of a Black lesbian literary archive at the height of intersectional liberation movements (Black, Gay and Feminist). I attempt to spatialize the social dynamics of a post-Black Power era and map narratives of when Black lesbian poets contest the social devaluation of black women...