Year: 2022
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CRES Faculty Letter in Support of UAW Strikes
The Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Department urges the UCSC administration to persuade UCOP to bargain with the UAW in good faith and to take the bargaining position of the UC Graduate Student Associations seriously. This is necessary to bring UC’s graduate student employee salary scale into line with that of our comparison institutions, to…
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Graduate Research Spotlight: Kiley McLaughlin (Literature)
by Talib Jabbar Migration Circuit Talib Jabbar: You’re doing a Creative/Critical dissertation project as part of the Literature program as well as a DE in CRES. How has CRES informed your project? (Note, if you’d like here you can explain what a creative/critical project is best you can). Kiley McLaughlin: My dissertation comprises two major components: an…
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Statement in Support of the UC A-G Ethnic Studies Requirement
Starting in 1968, students at two public universities in California–first San Francisco State and then UC Berkeley–courageously led the way for the grassroots formation of ethnic studies by going on strike and shutting down their campuses despite police brutality and military repression. Well over half a century later, the University of California has at long…
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CRES Supports the “Students for Sustaining Black Wellness” Referendum
The faculty and staff of the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Department and the Black Studies Minor wholeheartedly support the “Students for Sustaining Black Wellness Referendum” (below) put forward by the Black Student Union (BSU) and the African American Theater Arts Troupe (AATAT). The vibrancy of UC Santa Cruz and the famed social consciousness of…