Race and Ethnicity Brownbag

Spring 2011

Mondays 12:00-1:15pm

3470 Social Science

The Race & Ethnicity Training Seminar is a weekly seminar attended by graduate students and faculty who are interested in issues of race and ethnicity in the US and other countries. It provides a forum for discussing student and faculty work in progress, as well as more polished work to be used for job talks and conference presentations. Each semester, a few speakers from outside the department also share their work, providing an opportunity to network with race & ethnicity scholars.

Students planning to attend regularly should register for Soc 987 to get 1 credit for the semester. Presenters can register for up to 3 credits and should notify the organizer of any equipment needs. Presenters may wish to consult Ruth López-Turley’s "Tips for Presenters"

This is a brownbag seminar, so you are welcome to bring your lunch.

SPRING 2011

1/24: Yang Zhang

            “Racial Data Collection and Interpretation in Higher Education: Factors that Influence College Students' Responses to Racial Survey Questions”

1/31: Katherine Curtis and Paul Hanselman. (Joint with Community & Env. Soc)

"Return Migration and Growing Inequality among Southern Blacks, 1970-2000.

2/7: Pilar Goñalons: "The link between civic and political participation. The case of immigrants in Spain" 

2/14 Mytoan Nguyen

“Going ‘Back’ Where They Came From? Global Recession and the Motives of the Second Generation ‘Viet Kieu’ Looking for Work in Vietnam”

2/21 Jason Orne

“Rice Queens: Queer Interracial Relationships, Sexual Racism and Racial Fetishism”

2/28: Mara Loveman

            “Brazil in Black and White: Race Categories and the Study of Racial Inequality”

3/7: David Cook-Martin (Grinnell College)

            “Exclusions and Preferences: Argentine Immigration and Nationality Law in Comparative Perspective”

3/14: SPRING RECESS

3/21: Nicola Beisel (Northwestern) (Joint with FemSem)

            "Discrimination or Genocide? Racial Politics and the 1972 Abortion Referendum."

*3/28: Kristin Bumiller (Joint with FemSem)

            Gender Responsive Policy in an Era of Mass Incarceration: Reconfiguring the Gendered Meaning of Criminality

4/4: TBA

4/11: Jack DeWaard and Katherine Curtis:

“The return migration of blacks to the South and the permanency of new destinations: A multistate analysis of county-to-county migration flows, 1985-1990”

4/18: Nikki Kraus

            TBA

4/25: * Meets in 8108. Tatiana Alfonso

5/2: Anna Haskins, David Rangel, Megan Shoji and Kia Sorensen

"Exploring the Emergence of Social Capital among Families in Predominantly Latin@ Communities: A Mixed Methods Approach"

5/9 Sarah Bruch

            TBA