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Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective: "Race-ing Toward the Real South Korea: The Cases of Black-Korean Nationals," Nadia Y. Kim, Assoc. Prof. of Sociology, Loyola Marymount University

Students of South Korean multiculturalism have laudably given voice to the many non-Koreans who live in a proudly single-blood nation and have extensively criticized the state for its self-interested multicultural project.  Without critiquing these...

Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective: "Race in Motion: Traversing the Transnational Emotionscape of White Beauty in Indonesia," L. Ayu Saraswati, Asst. Prof. of Women's Studies, University of Hawai'i at Manoa

In this talk, Saraswati explores how feelings and emotions—Western constructs as well as Indian, Javanese, and Indonesian notions such as rasa and malu—contribute to and are constitutive of transnational and gendered...

Merced Seminar in the Humanities: "Recalling 1930s State Violence in El Salvador, Spain and the Dominican Republic: the Temporality of Memory and the Nation," Robin DeLugan, Assoc. Prof. of Anthropology, UC Merced

Film Series: Swing Time

Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective: "From the Conservation of Races to the Cosmic Race," Juliet Hooker, Assoc. Prof. of Government, University of Texas at Austin

The Mexican philosopher José Vasconcelos [1882-1959] and the African American political thinker W.E.B. DuBois [1868-1963] are viewed as having developed conceptions of race and racial identity that are quintessentially Latin American and U.S....

Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective: "The Return of Pseudoscientific Racism? DNA Ancestry Testing, Race, and the New Eugenics Movement," Paul Spickard, Prof. of History, UCSB

Ancestry.com wants you to swab your cheek and send them a DNA sample and a check.  In return, they promise to tell you who your remote ancestors were.  Eminent literary scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., performs the same miracle on national...

Merced Seminar in the Humanities: "Music and Religious Change in Shakespeare's Tempest," Katherine Steele Brokaw, Asst. Prof. of English, UC Merced

Lyceum Workshop: "Social Sciences, Humanities, and the Art of Leveraging Your Story to Land the Job"

Open to graduate students; refreshments provided by Career Services.

Poetry Reading: "Visiting Hours at the Color Line," Ed Pavlic, Prof. of English, University of Georgia

Brownbag Talk: “Embracing Regime Change: US Foreign Policy Toward the 1963 Coup in Iraq,” Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt, Lecturer in History, UC Merced

Merced Seminar in the Humanities: "Personification and the Political Imagination of A Midsummer Night’s Dream," Amanda Bailey, Assoc. Prof. of English, University of Maryland

Film Series: Topsy Turvy

Brownbag Talk: "'Swappin’ a Mon’s Clooas for a Woman’s’: Gender and Victorian Dialect Writing,” Taryn Hakala, Lecturer in English, UC Merced

Central Valley Threads Opening Reception and Lecture: "Life and Art in the Central Valley," Gerald Haslam

Race and Justice in Transnational Perspective: "Colorblind?: The Contradictions of Racial Classification," Michael Omi, Assoc. Prof. of Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley

The dominant racial ideology of colorblindness in the United States holds that the most effective anti-racist policy, and practice, is to ignore race.  Issues continue to arise, however, that present a set of contradictions for colorblind ideology...

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