We’re excited to announce that our inaugural invited speaker series in partnership with the Dell Medical School will be starting this March!
Our first speaker, Professor Dorothy Roberts (University of Pennsylvania), will be joining us on March 7th, followed by Professor Charmaine Royal (Duke University) in April.
Check out our Events page for details on these talks or reach out to our organizers.
Welcome back for another school year, R&E-ers!
As you may have noticed over the last few years, we’ve been working around themes to guide our monthly meetings. This academic year, we’re focusing on Race, Health and Healthcare.
Our first fall meeting will be Friday September 9th from 3PM to 5PM, in CLA 2.606 (Normandy Seminar Room). There will be two readings we will discuss to help introduce our subject for the year, so please come prepared to discuss them and share your vision for the rest of the semester.
The readings are the following:
Please mark the following dates for our subsequent fall meetings: October 14th, November 11th, and December 2nd from 3PM to 5PM (all in CLA 2.606). Also, contact Anima Adjepong, Kathy Hill, or Shantel Buggs for a PDF of the Bliss chapter and join our email list here!
Our next R&E meeting will be Friday 2/19 from 3 to 5pm in CLA 0.120.
We will turn our attentions to political revolution and social movements through a discussion of the Working Families’ Party and Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton’s “gender revolution”, and the Tea Party. Please come having read the articles below and watched the brief video from MSNBC:
Ball, Molly. “The Pugnacious, Relentless Progressive Party That Wants to Remake America” The Atlantic. Jan 7, 2016.
Perry, Melissa Harris. “Should feminism play a role in the 2016 election?” MSNBC, Feb 6, 2016.
Williamson, Vanessa, Theda Skocpol, and John Coggin. 2011. “The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism.” Perspectives on Politics, 9(1); p 25-43.
Greetings! Our October meeting will feature a discussion of Professor Matthew W. Hughey’s work in his book, White Bound: Nationalists, Antiracists, and the Shared Meanings of Race, where he explores white racial identity across progressive and neoconservative movements.
Matthew Hughey, associate professor of sociology at this office at the University of Connecticut on Nov. 12, 2013. (Peter Morenus/UConn Photo)
Dr. Hughey’s talk will take place on October 30th, 2015, in CLA 0.122 from 3-4:30pm. Please contact Shantel Buggs (sgbuggs@utexas.edu) for the readings!
Our first meeting of the year will be tomorrow (!), September 11th in CLA 1.302C at 3pm. We will be discussing the Black Lives Matter movement in a global context and reflecting on social movements in the contemporary era.
Please come having read the following:
Barbara Ransby – “Ella Taught Me”
Boima Tucker – “At The Crossroads of BET, Afrobeats and Black Lives Matter”
See you tomorrow!
Source: The Huffington Post
Our next meeting with take place on Friday April 17 in CLA 0.112 from 3-5. It will be a seminar-style discussion on race and immigration, specifically thinking about how the white body is absented from how U.S. studies imagines “who” the immigrant is. Please read the following readings and come ready for a productive conversation!
Koutonin, Mawuna R. (2015) – Why are white people expats when the rest of us are immigrants?
Treitler, Vilna Bashi. (2015). “Social Agency and White Supremacy in Immigration Studies.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 1(1): 153-165, 2015.
See you all on Friday!
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