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Race Matters Series
Using Critical Race Theory and Racial Microaggressions to Examine Everyday Racism Daniel Solorzano
MCC LOUNGE
In this discussion, Daniel Solorzano, professor of Social Sciences and Comparative Education at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, will focus on racial microaggressions, those covert or everyday forms of systemic racism used to keep those at the racial margins in their place. In order to comprehend racial microaggressions, we must first understand the different types of racial microaggressions that People of Color experience; the various contexts in which they occur; their effects on People of Color; and how People of Color respond to them.
Cup of Culture
Meet the Filmmaker Rhythmic Uprising
MCC THEATER
Rhythmic Uprising is a documentary that shows how the transformative powers of Afro-Brazilian performing arts are used to fight racism and inequality in Bahia, Brazil. This film takes a look behind the scenes of those grandiose carnival spectacles to see how local cultural leaders utilize these arts to change lives.
Benjamin Watkins, 110 min., English, 2008, Brazil/USA. Discussion with the director following the screening.
Art Exhibit
Realidad Separada by Álvaro Ángeles Suman
MCC LOUNGE
Painter, sculptor, and ceramicist Álvaro Ángeles Suman recreates Mexican cultural icons in a contemporary style. This use of traditional Mexican motifs gives his work a characteristic tone, generally associated with the work of well-known artist José Guadalupe Posada, or with the artistic tendencies explored by Mexican muralists. Suman has exhibited his work in Mexico, the United States, and Spain. Co-sponsored by the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and the Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity and Academic Policy.
2010 Shirley Kennedy Lecture
From Watts to Dakar: A View of African American Culture in Los Angeles and in the African Diaspora • Jayne Cortez
MCC THEATER
Jayne Cortez, poet, activist, and founder of the Black Arts Movement in Los Angeles in the 1960s will share her reflections on African American Los Angeles and her travels through the African Diaspora. Her voice is celebrated for its political, surrealistic, dynamic innovations in lyricism, Jazz, Blues, and visceral sound. One of the founders of the spoken word movement, she has produced four albums, two films, and her ten books have been translated into 27 languages. She is also the president of the Organization of Women Writers of Africa.
Sponsored by the Center for Black Studies Research.
