Year: 2021
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micha cardenas’ book, “Poetic Operations: Trans of Color Art in Digital Media” Out Now!
In Poetic Operations artist and theorist micha cárdenas considers contemporary digital media, artwork, and poetry in order to articulate trans of color strategies for safety and survival. Drawing on decolonial theory, women of color feminism, media theory, and queer of color critique, cárdenas develops a method she calls algorithmic analysis. Understanding algorithms as sets of instructions designed…
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FMST/CRES Professor Neel Ahuja publishes new book: Planetary Specters
Congratulations to Neel Ahuja, whose new book – Planetary Specters: Race, Migration, and Climate Change in the Twenty-First Century – was recently published by UNC Press. Planetary Specters, tracks the figure of the climate refugee in public media and policy over the past decade, arguing that journalists, security experts, politicians, and nongovernmental organizations have often oversimplified climate…
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Congratulations to Camilla Hawthorne on Her Book, “The Black Mediterranean”!
To see more of Camilla’s work, please check out Black Geographies as well as Black Europe Summer School. The Black Europe Summer School is a two-week intensive course held each summer in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The course explores the contemporary circumstances of the African Diaspora and other people of color in Europe. Participants learn about the origins of…
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Congratulations to Eric Porter on His New Book!
This co-edited volume, Sound Changes: Improvisation and Transcultural Difference, was published last week by the University of Michigan Press and is the third and final publication from a collaboration with Daniel Fischlin of the University of Guelph. It follows a 2016 special issue of Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation and their 2020 volume Playing for Keeps: Improvisation…
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CRES and FMST welcome Marisol LeBrón!
As the year comes to the close, the Program in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and the Feminist Studies Department write to share long-awaited, heartening news with you: Marisol LeBrón will be joining our faculty ranks as an associate professor starting this fall! Currently housed in Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at UT Austin, Professor…
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CRES Statement of Solidarity with the Palestinian People on Nakba Day
As a program committed to the study of colonialism, military occupation, and Indigenous resistance, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies stands in support of the Palestinian people as they live under multiple forms of violence imposed on them by Israel. As an academic program housed on Turtle Island, we oppose settler colonialism everywhere and we condemn…
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Announcing the Judy Yung Memorial Fund
By Alice Yang, Associate Professor of History The UCSC community was devastated to learn of the passing of Judy Yung on December 14, 2020 at the age of 74. In her honor, the campus has established the Judy Yung Memorial Fund, which shall be used to support interdisciplinary research and/or programming related to Asian American / Pacific Islander (AAPI) Studies at UC Santa…
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CRES DE, Ka-Eul Yoo’s research paper recognized by the Association for Asian American Studies
Literature Ph.D. student and CRES DE, Ka-Eul Yoo recently received the Best Graduate Student Paper Award from the Association for Asian American Studies for her paper, “The Crime of Leprosy: The Red Threat and U.S. Hansen’s Disease Policy in Cold War Korea”. Ka-Eul received a cash award from the AURA-AAAS Endowment Fund, a gift which honors the legacy of Asians United…
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Graduate Research Spotlight: Theresa Hice-Fromille (Sociology)
Each quarter, I tell my CRES and Sociology students and my P2R mentees that I am in graduate school so I can travel the world. Even before I had the means and opportunity to do so, I considered travel to be one of my main interests. Still, it didn’t occur to me that I could translate this…
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Graduate Research Spotlight: Uriel Serrano (Sociology)
Coming of Age in South Central: Gender Ideologies, Youth Activism, and The Carceral State On September 15th, I joined Black and Brown youth activists at the Los Angeles Unified School District headquarters as they rallied to continue their calls to defund the second largest school police department in the country. Earlier that summer, LAUSD voted…