Thursday, April 2, 2009

Reproduction of Race and Racial Ideologies

Reproduction of Race and Racial Ideologies Workshop Schedule
All meetings are held on Thursdays, 4:15 - 5:30 p.m.,at The Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, 5733 S. University Ave. To download a paper, click on its title. All papers are in PDF format -- you'll need Adobe Acrobat Reader to open PDF files. If you have questions, email the workshop coordinator: mandisa@uchicago.edu.

The workshop enjoys support from the Council on Advanced Studies (CAS) and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture at the University of Chicago.

Persons with a disability who believe they may need assistance, please contact Marcelle Medford-Lee, the workshop coordinator, at 773.834.8737.



Spring 2009


Thursday, April 9, 2009
MOLLY HUDGENS, CSRPC Dissertation Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of History, University of Chicago

"Servicing the Army: Soldier-Consumer and the Problem of Race and Leisure during World War II"
(Co-Sponsored with Social History Workshop)



Thursday, April 23, 2009
ERIC USNER, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dept. of Music, University of Chicago

"Is Mozart White?"


Thursday, April 30, 2009 | 12-2pm
SCOTT BROWN, Associate Professor, Dept. of History, University of California in Los Angeles

"More Bounce to the Ounce: The Blues Afro-Futurism of Roger Troutman and Zapp"
Disscussant: Travis Jackson, Associate Professor, Dept. of Music, University of Chicago



Thursday, May 7, 2009
BILL ONG HING, Professor of Law and Asian American Studies, University of California in Davis

"ICE Raids and Immigration Policy"
Disscussant: Suzanne Gzesh, Executive Director, Human Rights Program and Senior Lecturer, University of Chicago

(Co-Sponsored with the Immigration Workshop and Human Rights Workshop)



Tuesday, May 12, 2009 | 12-2pm
KARA WALKER, Visual Artist and Art Speaks Fellow, University of Chicago

"Instillation Art of Kara Walker"
Disscussant: Hamza Walker, Education Director and Associate Curator, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago

(Co-Sponsored with the Gender and Sexuality Studies Workshop)



Thursday, May 21, 2009
MEGAN FRANCIS, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Political Science Department, University of Chicago

"Civil Rights Lobbying: The NAACP and the American Presidency, 1912-1923"


Thursday, May 28, 2009
NITISHA TAMAR SHARMA, Assistant Professor of African American Studies & Asian American Studies, Northwestern University

"Title TBD"

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