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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.
Arizona's SB 1070
MCC THEATER
Signed into law by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer on April 23, 2010 and scheduled to go into effect on July 29, Arizona’s SB 1070 will make the failure to carry immigration documents a crime and give the police broad power to detain anyone suspected of being in the country illegally. This law has reignited the divisive battle over immigration reform nationally. This panel explores the broader context for understanding contemporary immigration rules, including federal law as well as state and local rules like the one recently approved in Arizona. Panelists will discuss the political history of these rules, their likely impact on race and ethnic relations, and their relationship to similar rules in American history that have also attempted to discourage the presence of 'undesirable' others. Panelists include John Park, Associate Professor in the Department of Asian American Studies and Associate Dean in the College of Letters and Science at UCSB and Angélica Salas, Executive Director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA).
