Year: 2020
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CRES Director Christine Hong Publishes A New Book
A Violent Peace offers a radical account of the United States’ transformation into a total-war state. As the Cold War turned hot in the Pacific, antifascist critique disclosed a continuity between U.S. police actions in Asia and a rising police state at home. Writers including James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, and W.E.B. Du Bois discerned in domestic…
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Announcing the Black Studies Minor
In the past few weeks, catalyzed by the police murder of George Floyd, a powerful mass movement has emerged against the lethality of antiblack racism. People, including many in our community, have taken to the streets to hold racist structures accountable, calling for the defunding, demilitarization, and disbanding of the police as a necessary means…
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Artist-Made Tools Resist Algorithmic Racism and Empower Communities
by Theadora Walsh Last week Eric Yuan, CEO of the now exhaustingly ever-present video conference company Zoom, told investors that Zoom would not offer encryption services to free users. Why? Because of Zoom’s commitment to supporting and aiding the FBI and local police officers. As social distancing requires unprecedented reliance on the internet, and the ongoing Black Lives Matter…
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Graduate Research Spotlight: Talib Jabbar (Literature)
Queer Convoys: American Imperial Militarism and Global Asian Cultural Production “’Terror’ talk is the new race talk—the ‘terrorist’ (or the ‘militant’ or the ‘radical’) is the twenty-first century way of saying ‘savage.’” –Sohail Daulatzai and Junaid Rana, “Left” A maddening amount of technological and socio-cultural shifts have cast the twenty-first century in the markings of…
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Why Nick Mitchell Is Returning the Chancellor’s Achievement Award for Diversity
Dear Chancellor Cynthia Larive, Last year I received, from your predecessor George Blumenthal, the 2019 Chancellor’s Achievement Award for Diversity. I was proud then to accept the award. I took it to represent UC Santa Cruz’s continued recognition, not of me in some narrow fashion but to the collective worlds that made me possible. Those…
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CRES Solidarity Statement with COLA Campaign
The faculty in the Program in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) at UC Santa Cruz expresses our solidarity with graduate students who are calling for financial resources to meet the rapidly rising costs of living in and around Santa Cruz. CRES, like so many other ethnic studies programs, owes much of its existence to…
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CRES Graduate Spotlight: Christian Alvarado (History of Consciousness)
An interview with Jane Komori, also a CRES DE in the Department of History of Consciousness JK: You’re a PhD candidate in the History of Consciousness Department with a Designated Emphasis in CRES. What does this interdisciplinary formation offer you that you might not have in a more traditional academic setting? CA: The interdisciplinary formations…