Events By Quarter
Cup of Culture
Sueno en Otro Idioma/I Dream in Another Language
MCC Theater
Please note that our Winter 2024 in-person events will require masks due to the rise in COVID-19 and flu activity within the region. The MCC will provide masks to attendees on site, as needed.
When a language dies, a unique vision of the world is lost forever. An indigenous language is in peril as its last two speakers, Evaristo and Isauro, had a quarrel in the past and haven't spoken to each other in over 50 years. Martín, a young linguist, will undertake the challenge to bring the old friends back together and convince them to once again talk to each other so he can obtain a recorded registration of the language and study it. However, hidden in the past, in the heart of the jungle, lies a secret concealed by the language that makes it difficult to believe that the heart of Zikril will beat once again. (Runtime: 101 min)
Co- Sponsor: Collective of Pueblos Originarios in Diaspora (CPOD)
Race Matters Series
“Sometimes Rugged, Sometimes Nice, and Sometimes Just Plain Mean”: Black Children and Racialized Gender Identity
Dr. Denise Isom
MCC Theater
Please note that our Winter 2024 in-person events will require masks due to the rise in COVID-19 and flu activity within the region. The MCC will provide masks to attendees on site, as needed.
This presentation and discussion draws from two qualitative studies of African American Children and their racialized gender identity. We will discuss the meaning making world of African American children, particularly how they expressed their ideas of gender and racial constructions (“Blackness”) and the intersections of race and gender- racialized gender identity. Their words and lives revealed an externally “earned” maleness, centered on performance, as well as an ideal maleness oriented around caring and relationship. Femaleness was seen as strong and complex, yet sexualized by a male gaze and silent in the face of it. The children displayed a strong sense of the racial projects which surround them and their resistance to them. The idea of Blackness centered around the body, lack, and deviance, functioned alongside their contrasting definition of Black as triumphant in the face of struggle, and as a testimony to overcoming.
Speaker Bio:
Dr. Denise Isom received her doctorate in Socio-Cultural Anthropology of Education from Loyola University, Chicago and is currently serving as Interim Vice President for Diversity and Equity & CDO at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Her Master’s in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in Multicultural Education along with a B.S. in Engineering and B.A. in African American Studies were earned at the University of California at Davis. Dr. Isom’s areas of expertise include- racialized gender identity, ethnic studies, sociology/anthropology of education and whiteness.
Black Campus Life
Professor Antar A. Tichavakunda
MCC Theater
Please note that our Winter 2024 in-person events will require masks due to the rise in COVID-19 and flu activity within the region. The MCC will provide masks to attendees on site, as needed.
Antar A. Tichavakunda is Assistant Professor of Education at the University of California Santa Barbara. Born and raised in Washington, DC, Tichavakunda is a product of DC Public Schools. His first book, Black Campus Life: The Worlds Black Students Make at a Historically White Institution, is published with SUNY Press. He employs Black intellectual thought and sociological theories to better understand and support marginalized communities in higher education. In this lecture, Tichavkunda will draw from his book to highlight the dynamism, tensions, and joys of Black student life at historically White institutions of higher education. Join us for a reception in the MCC Lounge following the lecture, sponsored by the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs!
Co- Sponsor: Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs
Lunar New Year Bingo
MCC Lounge
Please note that our Winter 2024 in-person events will require masks due to the rise in COVID-19 and flu activity within the region. The MCC will provide masks to attendees on site, as needed.
Ring in the year of the Wood Dragon with food, luck, and fun for all! The Asian American Studies Dept. and the MultiCultural Center invite YOU to join us in the MCC Lounge for Lunar New Year Bingo. You could win an awesome prize!
Co- Sponsor: Asian American Studies Department
