Please join us for an informal conversation with playwright/artist Sharon Bridgforth. This conversation will focus on making art, breaking form, making a living as an artist, using art as a tool for change, ​and African American/Queer​ tradition​s​ of the personal as political. 

Please join Karida L. Brown, Assistant Professor of Sociology at UCLA, to discuss the production of the forthcoming book, The Souls of Sociology: Articulating a Du Boisian Sociology. This will be an informal conversation about collaborative research and the co-authoring experience for this book project. 

Please join us on Tuesday, April 18, 12-1pm for a "What I Am Thinking About Now" presentation from Andrea Flores, Assistant Professor of Education at Brown University. Her talk is titled, "The Descendant Bargain: Latina Youth Remaking Kinship and Generation through Sibling Caretaking in Nashville, Tennessee."

RSVP to [email protected]. Snacks and caffeine will be provided.

CSREA has launched a race and ethnicity focussed graduate student professionalization and development series to support graduate student research on race and ethnicity, build research community across disciplines, and support our graduate student professional development.

We invite graduate students to send their RSVPs to [email protected] for any one or all of the seminars listed below. Seats are limited.

On April 7, 2017, CSREA will be presenting a symposium entitled, The U.S. Immigration Regime and the Politics of Belonging. How have immigration laws developed over the past century and how do these policies continue to affect the country today? For example, what are the legacies of IRCA and IRRIRA and how are these policies being amended and applied today?

CSREA is delighted to partner with the Office of Institutional Diversity to bring Robin DiAngelo to campus as part of the Diversity & Inclusion Summit, and to serve as CSREA's annual Third Rail Lecture Series speaker. Her talk is entitled, "White Fragility and Its Impact on Diversity and Inclusion Efforts on Campus."

Please join us for a lecture by P. Khalil Saucier, Chair and Associate Professor of Africana Studies, Bucknell University and author of Necessarily Black: Cape Verdean Youth, Hip Hop Culture, and a Critique of Identity.

Please join us for a critical discussion of the book "Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory" with Brown University scholars and the author, Julian Go, Professor of Sociology, Boston University.