Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America
1.2 million women are under correctional supervision in the United States, yet the narrative of mass incarceration often ignores the gendered aspects of punishment.
This panel centers on the voices and experiences of incarcerated women and their work to build communities free of mass incarceration. As society pushes for an end to mass incarceration, what do we want aRead More
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA)
About the Book
In Defiant Braceros, Mireya Loza sheds new light on the private lives of migrant men who participated in the Bracero Program (1942–1964), a binational agreement between the United States and Mexico that allowed hundreds of thousands of Mexican workers to enter this country on temporary workRead More
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA)
About the Book
From their earliest encounters with Indigenous Pacific Islanders, white Europeans and Americans asserted an identification with the racial origins of Polynesians, declaring them to be racially almost white and speculating that they were of Mediterranean or AryanRead More
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA)
About the Book
As Pokémon Go reshaped our neighborhood geographies and the human flows of our cities, mapping the virtual onto lived realities, so too has gaming and game theory played a role in our contemporary understanding of race and racial formation in the United States. FromRead More
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA)
About the Book
The canon of postwar American fiction has changed over the past few decades to include far more writers of color. It would appear that we are making progress—recovering marginalized voices and including those who were for far too long ignored. However, is thisRead More
Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America and the journal, Gender, Work, & Organization
Date of workshop: Thursday, May 20, 2021, 4 pm - 7 pm ET Deadline for paper submissions: Monday, May 10, 2021
This workshop will offer feedback on working papers and extended abstracts on writing that focuses on anti-racist feminist organizing and welcomes submissions from all disciplines. Doctoral students and emerging scholars are encouragedRead More
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA)
About the Book
When Moya Bailey first coined the term “misogynoir,” she defined it as the ways anti-Black and misogynistic representation shape broader ideas about Black women, particularly in visual culture and digital spaces. She had no idea that the term would go viral, touchingRead More
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA) and the journal Gender, Work & Organization
This three-part speaker series will focus on various ways anti-racist feminist methods of organizing are taking shape in an increasingly connected, transnational world. Prof. Tami Navarro (March 25, 2021),Read More
