Comparative U.S. Race and Ethnicity Studies (CRES) Interdisciplinary Graduate Group at the University of Minnesota invites all to attend their 2010 Speaker Series. The Speaker Series is an opportunity to hear from top scholars in the field of Ethnic Studies regarding the best methods, practices, and approaches to the study of Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies.
Speaker Series in Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies
The Speaker Series is an opportunity to hear from top scholars in the field of Ethnic Studies regarding the best methods, practices, and approaches to the study of Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies. They are thrilled to have May Fu present on March 25 and George S√°nchez on April 22.
Both events will take place at the Fireplace Room in 135 Nicholson Hall at 3:30-5pm. A catered reception featuring both vegan and non-vegetarian options will be served immediately following the event.
Please see the attached flyer for more information about the two events, along with details regarding RSVP. Please feel free to pass along the flyer to interested parties.
For directions and parking information, please visit http://www1.umn.edu/twincities/maps/NichH/
MAY C. FU is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of San Diego. Her current book project examines Asian American community organizing in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Detroit, and New York City during the 1960s and 1970s. Drawing on dozens of oral histories with movement activists, it explores the panethnic, interracial, and international affiliations that shaped Asian American radicalism. Her articles have appeared in Social Justice and Amerasia Journal. She teaches classes on the comparative histories of racialized groups, womyn of color feminisms, race and social movements, and Asian American radicalism. She works with grassroots organizations around womyn and transfolks of color against violence and is piloting a program at USD that allows Native American junior and senior high school students to take college courses and eventually enroll at the university.
GEORGE J. SÁNCHEZ is Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and History at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945 (1993) and co-editor of Los Angeles and the Future of Urban Cultures (2005) and Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina (2009). His academic work focuses on both historical and contemporary topics of race, gender, ethnicity, labor, and immigration. He is currently working on a historical study of the ethnic interaction of Mexican Americans, Japanese Americans, African Americans, and Jews in the Boyle Heights area of East Los Angeles, California in the twentieth century.
See flyer below:
Flyer.pdf
