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MULTIMEDIA
The Langston Hughes Project featuring the Ron McCurdy Project
MCC THEATER
The Langston Hughes Project is a multimedia concert performance of Langston Hughes’s kaleidoscopic jazz poem suite featuring the Ron McCurdy Quartet. Ask Your Mama is a twelve-part epic poem in verse and music that served as Hughes’ social commentary on the struggle for freedom and equality among Africans and African Americans in the 1960s. This multimedia presentation includes spoken word, jazz quartet and videography chronicling the Harlem Renaissance and drawing musical cues from blues and Dixieland, gospel songs, boogie woogie, bebop, “cha cha” and Afro-Cuban mambo music, Jewish liturgy, West Indian calypso, and African drumming. Dr. Ronald C. McCurdy is professor of music in the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California (USC) Free event! Limited Seating.
Race Matters Series
Mass Deportation and Global Capitalism in the 21st Century Tanya Golash-Boza
MCC THEATER
In the spring of 2014, President Obama’s administration reached a landmark of over 2 million deportations - more in under six years than the sum total of all deportations prior to 1997. Moreover, the vast majority of deportees are Latin American and Caribbean men. In this presentation, Prof. Golash-Boza will explain these racialized and gendered trends in immigration law enforcement in the context of global capitalism. Dr. Golash-Boza is associate professor of Sociology at the University of California, Merced.
Cup of Culture
Maori Boy Genius
MCC THEATER
What if we could turn back the clock and watch the minds forming of those who would create political zeitgeist shifts in the future? MAORI BOY GENIUS does just that. It is a coming-of-age film profiling future Indigenous leader Ngaa Rauuira railing against his people’s statistics of uneducated youth, 40% of prisoners, and alarming suicide rates. Ngaa’s family of eight lives on a modest income but commits to a $35K Yale University bill with the weighty expectation that Ngaa will be the voice of his people. Pietra Brettkelly, 85 min., English/Maori with English subtitles, 2012, New Zealand.
Religious Literacy Series
Native American Religious Traditions
MCC LOUNGE
EVENT CANCELED. Join us for the second installment of our Religious Literacy Series aiming to demystify underrepresented religions and people of faith. Prof. Inés Talamantez will lead an intimate discussion on Native American Religious Traditions, analyzing them in a political context while also debunking popular myths that are associated with such traditions. Dr. Talamantez is associate professor of Religious Studies at UCSB. EVENT CANCELED.
