CRG Forum Series

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

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...

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,...

Black Subjectivity/Black Comic Interventions

April 10, 2009

Black Subjectivity/Black Comic Interventions

04.10.2009| 4:00 – 5:30 PM | 691 Barrows Hall

Becoming Richard Pryor: Berkeley, 1971
Prof. Scott Saul, English Dept

Actor-comedian Richard Pryor may be one of the most present and least understood figures shadowing contemporary American culture. Upon his death in December 2005, the media paid tribute to his legacy with the sort of praise that would have seemed extravagant if it wasn’t so heartfelt and, from the perspective of Pryor’s life, so...

The Push To Cancel Critical Race Theory: Scholars Explain Factors Driving The Backlash

October 15, 2022
Andrew Cohen

Report on CRG Forum "Canceling Critical Race Theory and the "Woke" Agenda: Mapping Racist Backlash Attacks" held via Zoom on Oct. 7, 2021.

Click on the link below to read the full article.

https://www.law.berkeley.edu/article/the-push-to-cancel-critical-race-theory-sch…