Month: January 2019
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Graduate Research Spotlight: Sheeva Sabati (Education)
Settler Colonial Imaginaries and the naming of the first UC Campus “Westward the course of empire takes its way; The first four acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama of the day; Time’s noblest offspring is the last” [1] In spring of 1866, the Trustees of what would become the first public…
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Graduate Research Spotlight: Jess Whatcott (Politics)
California Eugenics and The Making of a Liberal State California’s history of eugenics came under public scrutiny when an investigative journalist uncovered evidence that non-consensual reproductive sterilizations took place in women’s prisons as recently as 2010. My interest in the investigation was grounded in hearing similar stories of unethical medical practice within prisons while volunteering…
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CRES Faculty Condemn Recent Police Violence against Student Protesters
Dear President Napolitano, Chancellor Blumenthal, and EVC Tromp: We, the undersigned principal faculty of the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies program, are compelled to write out of a sense of profound dismay and anger. On Friday, November 16, 2018, UC Santa Cruz students marched to the University Center at Colleges 9/10 with the intention of…