New Paradigms for Ethnic Studies
ASE Commons (Coordinated by Macarena Gómez-Barris, Sarah Banet-Weiser, and Umayyah Cable)
Summary:
A Series on Race, Power, and Critical Thought whose aim is to highlight the research of American Studies & Ethnicity(ASE) core and affiliated faculty and graduate students, and to build community through sustained conversations and workshops.
Description:
Join us for our upcoming ASE Commons event of the 2012-2013 academic year.Talks by ASE Postdoctoral Fellows Javon Johnson, Arely Zimmerman, and Susie Woo, this Thursday, October 25, 3:30-5:30pm, KAP 445
Respondent: Jack Halberstam (ASE/Gender Studies)
New Paradigms for Ethnic Studies
Javon Johnson
Moving Away from the notion that slam poetry and spoken word scenes are radically democratic, "Lost Count: A Love Story" begins the critical dialogue by exploring Chicago's youth poets, how they are working against the city's segregation and rash of violence, and what the adult performance poets can learn from them.
Arely Zimmerman
Zimmerman's talk will be based on an article, "Contesting Citizenship: Narratives of Identity, Belonging, and Illegality amongst Central Americans in Los Angeles", which uses Central American migrant activists' narratives of identity, place, and power to interrogate dominant conceptions of citizenship in relation to race/ethnicity, Latinidad, national identity, and political participation.
Susie Woo
In the wake of the Korean War, thousands of Korean children and mixed-race "GI babies" entered the United States. By tracing the hyper-visibility and erasure of adoptees, this talk explores how the seemingly private realm of family became the site for public contestations of race, kinship, citizenship, and belonging.