Race & Ethnic Studies Institute
Events
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Spring 2009
Thursday brown bag lunch open house
Every Thursday (Except on Mar 19, Apr 2)
AT 12:15pm to 1:15pm
ACAD 308
R&E Workshop
Wendy Leo Moore
February 26, 2009
AT 7:30pm
Los Molcajetes
Bilingualism in the workplace With the growing trend of non-English speakers (bilinguals and monolinguals) in the US labor force as well as the changing demography of the US as a whole, it is essential to examine how language usage in the workplace influences workplace events. Qualitative research into the experiences of Spanish-English bilinguals in Texas uncovered a variety of experiences, many negative, associated with workplace language usage.
Mindy Bergman
February 27, 2009
AT 2pm to 4pm
ACAD 326
Brazos Valley Reads Book Section: Sherman Alexie's, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian The Brazos Valley Reads (BVR) 2009 selection is Sherman Alexie's, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. BVR, a community effort organized by Texas A&M University's English department with extensive support from various groups in the university and the community, was started to encourage bridge building between Texas A&M's students and staff and the Brazos community at large. For the past four years, BVR has invited internationally recognized authors such as Ernest Gaines, Sandra Cisneros, Gish Jen and Tim O'Brien to College Station/Bryan for a literary event and to meet with local high school students.
March 3, 2009
AT 6:30 pm
Bryan Civic Auditorium, 800 S.Coulter Dr. Bryan, TX 77803
Africana Studies Research Symposium
March 9, 2009
AT 10:00am to 2:00pm
EVANS 106
Flier for the event
Sponsor(s): Africana Studies
Forty Acres and a Wealth Gap: Tracing the Social Reproduction of Systemic Racial Inequality Conceptually, social reproduction refers to perpetuation of social systems; how societies are maintained and reproduced. Of particular concern is the role of "capital" (material, cultural, social, and symbolic) to this process. Despite attention to historical roots, few scholars have provided a comprehensive explanation of the social reproduction of contemporary racial inequality. Recent studies have examined intergenerational transmission of racial inequality in wealth and advantage, but are limited to single or bi-generational analyses of isolated forms of capital. Similarly, the impact of institutions in reproducing inequality has been considered historically and/or theoretically, but has not been linked with a multigenerational empirical analysis. Missing is a comprehensive investigation of how multiple intergenerational dynamics affect the social reproduction of racial inequality. This qualitative dissertation project employs extended case method to address these critical gaps by examining the intergenerational decision-making processes of families. By situating family histories regarding access to and use of capital (e.g., in housing, schooling), within the larger structural context (e.g. law, social programs), this research exposes racial group differences in intergenerational mobility paths. In particular, this research examines differences in white and black familiesÂ’ access to and use of multiple forms of capital; the ways in which the socio-historical, institutional context has fostered or inhibited intergenerational transmission of family capital; and, finally, the role of symbolic capital in the ways families explain their successes and failures.
Jennifer Mueller
March 13, 2009
AT 2pm to 4pm
ACAD 326
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R&E Workshop
Rosalind Chou
March 26, 2009
AT 7:30pm
Los Molcajetes
The Bad Girls of Jewish Comedy: Gender, Class, Assimilation, and Whiteness in Post WWII America This presentation will explore the comedy of Belle Barth, Pearl Williams, and Patsy Abbott, a trio of working class Jewish stand-up comics that were hugely popular in the late-1950s. This period was one in which Jews saw upward mobility, suburbanization, a changing racial identity, and pressures to assimilate. Recuperating the contributions of these neglected figures in the history of American performance, the presentation will show how the trio's bawdy humor negotiated these social transformations and offers insights into class, Jewish ethnicity, and whiteness.
Giovanna Del Negro
March 27, 2009
AT 2pm to 4pm
ACAD 326
Flier for the event
Sponsor(s): The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research
'Three Times Divorced'
Ibtisam Mara'ana
April 2, 2009
Evans Library Annex 410
Sponsor(s): Women's Studies, Film Studies, Arabic and Asian Language Office & RESI
21st annual Student Conference on Latino Affairs (SCOLA): Narrowing the Latino Education Gap: An American Crisis
April 3-4, 2009
Flier for the event
Sponsor(s): RESI, MSC Committee Complex's for the Awareness of Mexican American Culture
Cinderella in Blackface: A Critique of Hustle and Flow
Sofia Quintero, aka "Black Artemis
April 7, 2009
AT 3:30pm to 5:30pm
Evans Annex 410
Sponsor(s): Africana Studies
Climbing the SES Ladder: Goal Striving Stress and Mental Health among African Americans and Afro-Caribbeans
Verna Keith
April 13, 2009
AT 1:30pm
ACAD 326
Flier for the event
Sponsor(s): RESI
Civil Rights, Black Power, and Community Revolution
Kathleen Cleaver
April 16, 2009
AT 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Rudder 601
Sponsor(s): Africana Studies
Spatial and Generational Divide- A Study of Access to Ethnic and Non-ethnic Neighbourhoods for Mexicans in Houston This study examines the relationship between spatial patterns of residential distribution by nativity status for one of the most important and fastest growing ethnic groups in the US- the Mexicans. As a pilot study of a broader project of similar theme, this study focuses on Houston metropolitan area to present a direct contrast of Mexican access to non-Hispanic White neighbourhoods and co-ethnic Mexican neighbourhoods. Both summary and micro US Census 2000 data are employed to identify, examine, and compare ethnic and non-ethnic neighbourhoods and their access by Mexicans of different
immigration status. The general hypothesis is that Mexicans of different immigration status have significantly differential access to the ethnic and non-ethnic neighbourhoods, and hence their offered contextual conditions and opportunities. Results from logistic
locational attainment models in combination with spatial regression models yield strong support to this hypothesis. This differential access further suggests different resources and obstacles for group members of different immigration status.
Charles Zhang
April 17, 2009
AT 2pm to 4pm
ACAD 326
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Symposium: Race, Ethnicity, and (New) Media The Race & Ethnic Studies Institute at Texas A&M University convenes a symposium every other year, and the proposed theme for the 2008-2009 year is Shifting Terrains: Inequalities in the 21st Century, and the symposium itself is to focus on Race, Ethnicity, and (New) Media. The explosion of work on New Media (including the Internet, mobile devices, Web 2.0) and the juxtaposition and overlap between 'old' media (radio, television, film, and mass-print media) and New Media is a rich field of cultural production and scholarly research in which scholars of race and ethnicity have not been particularly well-represented. However, there are cutting edge scholars who do indeed explore various aspects of race/ethnicity and (New) Media (including audience/fan studies, representations of racial and ethnic identities in a variety of media, identity-focused online communities, etc.). We invite such scholars to submit papers with the intention of presenting work that deals with these topics during a 2 1/2 day interdisciplinary symposium, with several keynote speakers, including Dr. Lisa Nakamura and Dr. Henry Bial. We intend that a number of these papers will be compiled into an edited volume intended for publication, and that all papers and participants will have the opportunity to upload their papers on our developing interactive website for scholarly exchange on working papers.
Apr 30 - May 2, 2009
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