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Race Matters Series
Zombie Orientals Ate My Brain: Anti-Arab & Anti-Asian Themes in Zombie Film & Fiction Eric Hamako
MCC LOUNGE
Since 2001, zombies have become more popular than ever. Why? Zombies tap into historical narratives about Arabs, Muslims, and East Asians. Symbolizing the racial and socioeconomic “Other,' zombies are infused with Orientalist qualities such as an insatiable yet asexual hunger for the flesh, unintelligibility, implacability, and a horde-like social structure that threatens to pollute heteronormative White family structures and racial purity. But, some zombie stories play with and resist these Orientalist ideas -- and so can we.
Cup of Culture
Our Spirits Don't Speak English: Indian Boarding School
MCC THEATER
A Native American perspective on Indian Boarding Schools, this film uncovers the dark history of U.S. Government policy which took Indian children from their homes, forced them into boarding schools, and enacted a policy of educating them in the ways of Western Society. It gives a voice to the countless Indian children forced through a system designed to strip them of their Native American culture, heritage and traditions. Chip Richie, 80 min., 2008, English, USA. Co-sponsored by the American Indian Cultural Resource Center, the American Indian Graduate Student Alliance, the American Indian Science and Engineering Society, and the American Indian Student Association.
América Te Hablo de Ernesto (America, I Tell you about Ernesto) An Evening of Latin American Poetry and Songs from the 60s, 70s and 80s MusicaLatitudes
MCC THEATER
With the purpose to celebrate peace, love, and social justice, MusicaLatitudes came together to perform contentious Latin American poetry and songs from the 60s, 70s, and 80s in memory of the 80th birthday of Ernesto 'Che' Guevara, a man who represents the failed Latin American revolutionary movement of the 60s. The poetry, selected from the recently found and published Che Guevara's Green Notebook, celebrates his bequest and human sensibility, the same one that today guides the new awakening of Latin America in its search for its definitive socio-political and cultural independence. In Spanish and English..Tickets $5 students / $15 general. Contact the A.S. Ticket Office at 805-893-2064. Co-sponsored by the Unión Salvadoreña de Estudiantes Universitarios.
Poverty and Social Hierarchy in Chinese America Xiaojian Zhao
MCC LOUNGE
In her recently published book The New Chinese America: Class, Economy, and Social Hierarchy, Professor Xiaojian Zhao explores the historical, economic, and social foundations of Chinese America, revealing the emergence of a social hierarchy within the ethnic community after 1965. Using class analysis, she shows that while many Chinese in the United States have achieved middle class social status, they have also become more dependent on the availability of poorer, less affluent, and more vulnerable new (often undocumented) immigrants. Xiaojian Zhao is an associate professor in the Department of Asian American Studies at UCSB. Co-sponsored by Asian American Studies.
