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Art Exhibit
No Human Being is Illegal! Posters on the Myths and Realities of the Immigrant Experience
MCC LOUNGE
Give me your tired, your poor; Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free . . . . The disparity between the eloquent promise of the Statue of Liberty and the recent attacks against immigrants is enormous and reasons for immigration to the United States vary broadly. Yet from the Irish and Chinese in the nineteenth century to the Mexicans and Middle Easterners of the twenty-first centuries, discrimination based on race, class, language, and culture has unfortunately been consistent. Whether the reason for migration is to escape war, seek asylum from persecution, or pursue better economic opportunities, leaving one’s family, friends, and home is never easy, and the posters in this exhibition present the human side of this wrenching experience.
Produced by the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, Los Angeles, California.
Cup of Culture - Meet the Filmmaker - Pilipino American Heritage Month
Little Manila; Filipinos in California’s Heartland
MCC THEATER
Filled with chop suey houses, gambling dens, and dance halls, Little Manila in Stockton was notoriously called, 'Skid Row,' but it was also the closest thing Filipinos had to a hometown and the largest population of Filipinos outside of the Philippines in the 1930s. Stockton residents recruited to work in the asparagus fields faced backbreaking work, low wages, and at times extreme racism to fulfill their dreams.
Discussion with the director Marissa Aroy following the screening. Co-sponsored by Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) Asian American Cultural Resource Center and Kapatirang Pilipino. Aroy, 26 min., English, 2008, USA.
D'FaQTo Life - D’Lo
MCC THEATER
Using excerpts from D's different solo shows, D’Lo takes the audiences on a roller-coaster ride of emotions with stories executed through stand-up, spoken word/poetry, and theater. D'Lo explores topics relating to South Asia and transgender social justice from the perspective of being a child of immigrant parents, raised in hip hop culture while trying to negotiate how identifying as 'queer' intersected with a passion to create political art.
Co-sponsored by the Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity.
'Everybody’s got a little light under the sun:' Black Luminosity and the Visual Culture of Surveillance Simone Browne
MCC THEATER
In this talk, Simone Browne, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, explores the historical presence of surveillance technologies of transatlantic slavery – slave patrols, fugitive notices, and lantern laws – to question how technologies of seeing, instituted through slavery, to track blackness as property, inform the contemporary surveillance of the racial body. This is done through an examination of the reality television program Mantracker and The Book of Negroes, the first large-scale public record of black presence in North America.
Co-sponsored by the Black Studies Department, the Center for Black Studies Research, and the Center for New Racial Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara.
