All Events
Race Matters Series
The Dilemmas of Anti-Racism: Lessons from California Politics Daniel Martinez HoSang
MCC LOUNGE
The long history of racialized ballot measures in California will serve as a springboard for a discussion on the dilemmas of organizing for racial justice on the ballot and beyond. What lessons can be learned from the (failed) electoral struggles over employment rights (1946), housing discrimination (1964), school desegregation (1972 & 1979), English Only (1984 & 1986), immigrant rights (1994), prison expansion (1994), affirmative action (1996), bilingual education (1998), and other issues? How has the framework of 'political whiteness' come to dominate these debates, and how can it be undone? How can a racial justice framework anchor a broad range of issues, strategies, and political visions for the future?
Daniel Martinez HoSang is an assistant professor of Ethnic Studies and Political Science at the University of Oregon. He is the author of Racial Propositions: Ballot Initiatives and the Making of Postwar California. HoSang worked for ten years as a community organizer in California before graduate school and continues to collaborate with social justice organizations in California and the Northwest.
Co-sponsored by the Center for New Racial Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Cup of Culture
Up From the Bottoms: The Search for the American Dream
MCC THEATER
Up From the Bottoms: The Search for the American Dream tells the story of the massive migration of African Americans from the rural south to the prosperous north during the World War II years and beyond. They left behind the legacy of slavery and segregation and set out to find the American dream.
Discussion following the screening. Co-sponsored by the Santa Barbara African Heritage Film Series. Jim Schaub, 58 min., English, 2009, USA.
Cup of Culture - Meet the Filmmaker
City of Borders
MCC THEATER
In the heart of Jerusalem stands an unusual symbol of unity that defies generations of segregation, violence, and prejudice: a gay bar called Shushan. City of Borders goes inside this underground sanctuary where people of opposing nationalities, religions, and sexual orientations create an island of peace in a land divided by war.
Discussion with the director following the screening. Yun Suh, 66 min., English, 2009, USA.
DIVERSITY LECTURE
You Better Recognize: Visibility, Recognition, and Regulation Herman Gray
MCC THEATER
In this talk Herman Gray considers the continuing desire and push for greater media visibility and recognition of diverse groups, cultures, and histories against the back drop of the changing conditions and means of representation made possible by digital technologies, neoliberalism, and discourse of diversity and post racial cultural politics. Herman Gray is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has written widely about cultural politics, television, and jazz. His most recent book, co-edited with Macarena Gomez Barris is entitled Toward a Sociology of the Trace, a book about memory, trauma, and identity.
Co-sponsored by the Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity and Academic Policy; the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor; and the Office of Equal Opportunity & Sexual Harassment/Title IX Compliance.
