Discussion Series

Fall 2013- Spring 2014

The Discussion Series is a yearly event hosted by the Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity and the theme for this year's Series is Just Cause? Just Language? Just Us?

Current rhetoric on race supposedly embraces the principles of racial equality and multiculturalism; yet old and new forms of racial violence, inequality and discrimination persist.  The popular language of “color-blindness,” “post-racialism,” “reverse racism,” “hard work,” “personal responsibility,” and “cultural pathology,” conceals how liberal and conservative forces have appropriated or delegitimated language originally used by racial justice movements.  By popularizing the idea that race and ethnicity no longer limit people’s access to opportunity, these political forces have obscured the persistence of racial injustices.

This Discussion Series considers the challenges of organizing and theorizing racial justice movements in a milieu in which racial and ethnic injustices are increasingly expressed through color-blind terms like “criminality,” “illegal immigration,” “terrorism,” “undeserving welfare recipients,” “unqualified applicants,” and “model minorities.”
 

Fall 2013

"8 Conversations about Race and Ethnicity"
Paula M.L. Moya
Associate Professor, Stanford University
Tuesday, September 17
Emerson Suites, 7-9 pm

"Repoliticizing Racial Justice in the Age of Obama"
Daniel HoSang
Associate Professor, University of Oregon
Monday, October 14
Emerson Suites, 7-9 pm    

"Politicized God Talk & Neo-Evangelical Disidentification"
Christopher A. House
Assistant Professor, Ithaca College
Monday, November 11
Clark Lounge, 7-9 pm

All events are free and open to the public. Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodation should contact the Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity at 607.274.1056 or cscre@ithaca.edu