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Cup of Culture
De Nadie (No One)
MCC Theater
This documentary interviews a number of Central Americans, who tell their stories of their first hand journeys through Mexico's 'Vertical Border' to get to the U.S. The four thousand kilometers that the migrants must travel through Mexico is where they risk their money, lives, and health. These are sad tales from those at the bottom of globalism's human barrel; these migrants have truly been reduced to 'de nadie,' 'no one.” Post film Q&A with the Undocumented Student Services program. (80 min, Spanish w/ English subtitles, 2005)
Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sLD9b5B4_c
Diversity Lecture
Death, Violence & Deportation: The Politics of Children's Suffering at the US-Mexico Border
Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales, Ph.D.
Online
Dr. Negrón-Gonzales will talk about the killing of three teenage boys – Sergio Adrían Hernández Guereca, José Antonio Elena Rodríguez and Cruz Marcelino Velasquez Acevedo – at the US-Mexico border between 2010 and 2013. Through an examination of these murders at the hands of US Border Patrol and Customs and Border Enforcement Agents, she will discuss how these killings demonstrate that not all children are afforded the so-called universal protection of childhood. She will also draw the connection to the deportation regime, and her 15+ years of researching undocumented young people, to discuss the politics of children's suffering at the border and under the inhumane immigration system.
Bio: Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the School of Education and affiliate faculty in the Migration Studies Program at the University of San Francisco. She is an interdisciplinary scholar of education and immigration and speaks across the nation on issues related to diversity, equity, higher education and immigrant rights. Raised on the U.S.-Mexico border, Negrón-Gonzales has been working with, supporting, and researching the lives of
undocumented youth for the past fifteen years in multiple capacities: as a student affairs professional, a researcher, and as an activist.
Dr. Negrón-Gonzales’ work has been published in numerous scholarly journals including Harvard Educational Review, Latino Studies, Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, The Journal of Latinos and Education, and Jesuit Higher Education. She is a co-author of Encountering Poverty: Thinking and Acting in an Unequal World (2016, UC Press), co-editor of We Are Not
Dreamers: Undocumented Scholars Theoerize Undocumented Life in the United States (Duke University Press, 2020), and co-author of The Latina/o/x Guide to Graduate School (Duke University Press, 2023).
Co-Sponsors: Office of Equal Opportunity & Discrimination Prevention, Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion - Undocumented Student Services
Race Matters Series
Decolonizing Methodologies
Linda Tuhiwai Smith
Online
“A landmark in the process of decolonizing imperial Western knowledge.” – Walter Mignolo, Duke University
To people who have navigated and survived the violence of colonization, the term ‘research’ is conflated with European colonialism; the ways in which academic research has been implicated in the throes of imperialism remains a painful memory.
Linda Tuhiwai Smith’s seminal text explores intersections of imperialism and research – specifically, the ways in which imperialism is embedded in disciplines of knowledge and tradition as 'regimes of truth’. Concepts such as ‘discovery’ and ‘claiming’ are discussed and an argument presented that the decolonization of research methods will help to reclaim control over indigenous ways of knowing and being.
Cup of Culture Series
Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen
Film Screening/Online
Disclosure: Trans Lives on Screen is a 2020 American documentary film, directed and produced by Sam Feder. The film follows an in-depth look at Hollywood's depiction of transgender people and the impact of their stories on transgender lives and American culture. Leading trans creatives and thinkers share heartfelt perspectives and analysis about Hollywood’s impact on the trans community. 1h 47m
