critical ethnic studies

lowendtheory: r-kellys-body: r-kellys-mind: NO YES (via...

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 07:00:08 -0400

lowendtheory:

r-kellys-body:

r-kellys-mind:

NO

YES

(via r-kellys-body)

R. Kelly, “Bump and Grind”

I was recently inspired to revisit this post.

Plenary Videos from Critical Ethnic Studies and the Future of Genocide

Sun, 22 May 2011 16:24:28 -0400

Plenary Videos from Critical Ethnic Studies and the Future of Genocide:

Thursday Plenary: J. Jack Halberstam, Denise da Silva, Sarita See, Waziyatawin

Friday AM Plenary: Andrea Smith, Dean Spade, Cheryl Harris, Glen Coulthard, Ruth Wilson Gilmore.

Friday PM Plenary: Keith Camacho, Gayatri Gopinath, Roderick Ferguson, José Esteban Muñoz, Nadine Naber, Cathy Cohen

Saturday AM Plenary: Neferti Tadiar, Vicente Diaz, Nikhil Singh, Lisa Lowe, Lisa Hajar

Saturday PM Plenary 1: Scott Lyons, Andrea Smith, Joåo Costa Vargas, Laura Pulido (not uploaded yet)

Saturday PM Plenary 2: Dylan Rodríguez, Audra Simpson, Hiram Pérez, Michelle Raheja

"…So, you kinda get a sense here of how big this conference was, how wide its range and how..."

Sun, 20 Mar 2011 12:40:02 -0400

“…So, you kinda get a sense here of how big this conference was, how wide its range and how ambitious its scope. What you cannot know is how hard everyone worked to make it happen, how stressed the plenary speakers were given the stakes of the event, how uncomfortable it was to sit for so long in a gym and how much energy the conference generated even as it left people tired and hungry by its end. As the conference attendees drift back to life as usual in places far from this hub of suburban mini-malls, the question of “what now” still hangs in the air – what forms of intellectual mayhem can stall the corporate university’s emphasis on profit? What can renegade knowledge forms tell us about prisons, settler colonialism, white supremacy? What are the relations now between knowledge and power? And, of course, the still unanswered question, from now on to be known as the “Munoz Paradox,” “What does one wear to the future of genocide?” (Tweet this kwissoker!)”

- Jack Halberstam blogs on the plenaries, provocations, and fashion choices at CESA11

Re: the last post, we (as in the people who are moderating this blog) are actually in no way...

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 09:07:40 -0400

Re: the last post, we (as in the people who are moderating this blog) are actually in no way affiliated with the official organizers of the conference. We just wanted to try and broaden the discussion. As conference attendees, though, it did appear that each plenary was recorded and are therefore wondering the same thing as you are. We’re hoping that someone with access to the conference organizers, or someone who might just know better, will have a better answer than us and submit it to the blog as well.

everything at CES was recorded, right? will plenaries and panels from CES be uploaded and made...

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 09:02:30 -0400

everything at CES was recorded, right? will plenaries and panels from CES be uploaded and made available to the public?

urgent message from Marisol, Oaxacan activist

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 22:39:00 -0400

Dear all,
Many of you, either in the *Oaxaca, Justice, and Democracy* tour or in the
Critical Ethnic Studies roundtable, heard from Marisol Castellanos Lopez
from the Seccion 22/Oaxaca.

One of the unionists in her organizing collective has been disappeared.

She and others are asking that we spread the word about this. Below i've
pasted an english/spanish information release. I'm also attaching a
spanish-language poster, including with a photo of Carlos Rene Roman
Salazar, the activist who has not been seen for days.

Thanks so much.

In solidarity --

-- 
Eric

**

espanol abajo

TO THE DEMOCRATIC EDUCATION WORKERS' UNION

TO HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS

TO THE PEOPLE OF OAXACA

In spite of the supposed transition in the state of Oaxaca and the
hypocritical calls for reconciliation, open and permanent aggression exists
for all groups that signify rebellion for the government and groups in
power. The repression the February 15 protest was the object of, in the
framework of Felipe Calderón’s visit to Oaxaca, made it clear that in Oaxaca
as well as in other regions, protest is being criminalized. After having
made clear his support for private education, by making tuition for private
schools tax deductible, the visit by Calderón was an aggression to poor and
working people. Only a few days ago the government released news that
millions of Oaxacans suffer from malnourishment, and the presence of the
President made clear the government’s support for the rich.

In response to the repression of Feb. 15, and in the face of the declaration
of the break in relations between Section 22 (SNTE/CNTE) and the Government,
collaborationist and opportunist groups made themselves clear, their
commitments fell, and in the name of the education workers’ union, these
groups that were before antigovernment enveloped themselves in the
government and began to target those who defended the autonomy of the
education workers’ union with dignity.

While the State Assembly discussed a plan of action Feb. 19, some teachers
demanded the autonomy of the union and the rejection of opportunists’ use of
the union as a trampoline to get governmental positions. For doing so, the
former received anonymous threats. In this framework of disintegration and
benefits, our union companion Carlos René Román Salazar also received
threats, including one that said “If you don’t calm down you’re going to get
fucked up,” “We’re sick of all of you damn rebels,” “We’re going for you and
yours.”

On the night of March 14, professor Carlos René Román Salazar was going to
his house in his car after a work meeting. He didn’t make it home and has
disappeared. All of this leads us to believe that Carlos René Román was the
object of a politically motivated kidnapping, and we fear for his health and
life. We demand the federal government and state government present
immediately, with complete health, this recognized teacher and member of
Section 22. This disappeared companion is a member of the Center of Studies
and Educational Development of Section 22 (CEDES 22) and one of the main
advocates of alternative education.

The disappearance of our companion is another aggression toward the
teachers’ union, our autonomy, and it signifies the continuance of an
authoritarian and repressive regime. The struggle for freedom and democracy
of the people cannot be stopped.

We make a call to teachers in general, to free men and women, to
organizations of human rights and of the people in general to protest the
wave of repression and violence that activists are facing. We call for a
protest today, Wednesday, March 16, at 4 PM at the offices of section 22, to
leave there for the Zócalo and install an encampment of protest and together
demand the immediate presentation of a living Carlos René Román Salazar.

END THE CRIMINALIZATION OF PROTEST

END THE REPRESSION AGAINST ACTIVISTS

IMMEDIATE PRESENTATION, WITH LIFE, OF CARLOS RENÉ ROMÁN SALAZAR

UNITED AND ORGANIZED WE WILL WIN BY STRUGGLING

LIBERTARIAN *MAGONISTA* COLLECTIVE


AL MAGISTERO DEMOCRÁTICO

A LAS ORGANIZACIONES DE DERECHOS HUMANOS

AL PUEBLO DE OAXACA



A pesar de la supuesta transición en el estado de Oaxaca y de los hipócritas
llamados a la reconciliación, existe una agresión abierta y permanente en
contra de todo aquel que para el gobierno y los grupos de poder significa
rebeldía. La represión de que fue objeto la manifestación del día 15 de
febrero, en el marco de la visita del espurio Felipe Calderón a Oaxaca,  hace
evidente que en nuestra entidad, lo mismo que en otras regiones se sigue
criminalizando la protesta. La propia visita de Felipe Calderón quien
después de hacer patente su apoyo a la educación privada, haciendo
deducibles de impuestos el pago de las colegiaturas, es una agresión para el
pueblo pobre y trabajador. Hace apenas unos días el mismo gobierno da a
conocer que millones de oaxaqueños padecen pobreza alimentaria, mientras,
con su presencia del presidente de la república hace patente su apoyo a los
ricos.



Ante la declaración de la ruptura de relaciones entre de la Sección 22 con
el Gobierno, como respuesta a la represión, que se dio este mismo 15 de
febrero,  los grupos colaboracionistas y oportunistas se desgarraron las
vestiduras, puesto veían caer los compromisos, que a nombre del magisterio
estos grupos, antes antigobiernistas y ahora incrustados en el gobierno
empezaron a hacer una serie de señalamientos de aquellos que con dignidad
defienden la autonomía del magisterio.



Mientras Asamblea Estatal del día 19 de febrero discutía en plan de acción,
algunos compañeros maestros que reclamaban la autonomía del magisterio y el
rechazo a que los oportunistas usen el movimiento magisterial como trampolín
para ocupar cargos públicos, estos compañeros recibieron amenazas anónimas.
En este marco de descomposición y prebendas también nuestro compañeroCarlos
René Román Salazar, recibió estas amenazas, en las que se le decía: “Si no
te calmas te va a llevar la chingada.” “Ya estamos hasta la madre de ustedes
pinches rebeldes revoltosos” “Vamos por ti y por todos los tuyos”.



El día 14 marzo, por la noche, el Profesor Carlos René Román Salazar se
dirigía a su casa a bordo de su automóvil, después de una reunión de
trabajo, no pudo llegar y desde entonces se encuentra desaparecido. Todo lo
anterior, nos hace suponer que Carlos René Román fue objeto de lo que se
conoce como un “levantón”, por que tememos por su integridad personal y su
vida. Por lo que demandamos a los  Gobierno federal y del estado la
presentación inmediata y con cabal salud  de este reconocido miembro del
magisterio e integrante de la Sección 22.El compañero desaparecido es
miembro del CEDES 22 y uno de los principales impulsores del proyecto de
educación alternativa.



La desaparición del compañero Carlos René Román Salazar, es una agresión más
al magisterio, a nuestra autonomía,  significa en continuismo de un régimen
autoritario y represor. La lucha por la libertad y la democracia, al lado
del pueblo no puede detenerse.



Hacemos un llamado al magisterio en general, a los hombres y mujeres libres,
a las organizaciones de derechos humanos y al  pueblo en general a
manifestarse en contra de la ola de represión y violencia que se viene
ejerciendo en contra de los luchadores sociales. Llamamos a manifestarnos el
día de hoy miércoles 16 de marzo a manifestarnos el día de hoy  a las 4 de
la tarde en las oficinas de la sección 22 para partir de ahí la Zócalo e
instalar un campamento de denuncia y juntos exigir la presentación inmediata
y con vida del compañero Carlos René Román Salazar.





ALTO A LA CRIMILIZACIÓN DE LA PROTESTA

ALTO A REPRESIÓN A LA LOS LUCHADORE SOCIALES

PRESENTACIÓN  INMEDIATA Y CON VIDA DE CARLOS RENÉ ROMÁN SALAZAR



UNIDOS Y ORGANIZADOS LUCHANDO VENCEREMOS

COLECTIVO LIBERTARIO MAGONISTA

critical ethnic studies: Ableist Language

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:48:07 -0400

critical ethnic studies: Ableist Language:

crunkfeministcollective:

criticalethnicstudies:

Really enjoying this conference. Noticing that we can use some help around ableist language. Here is a chart that may be helpful regarding our use of “crazy,” but we might also want to notice uses of “lame,” “paralyzed,” “dumb,” “blind,” “schizophrenic,” etc. I also recommend the website of the…

This!!! I think this may speak to the limits of cross pollination between disability studies and critical ethnic studies or more directly, the whiteness of disability studies. Additionally, the structure of the conference itself, 9am -10:30pm days, no lunch break the first day, six people plenaries, is ableist in its own right. As we critique the pace of life and the demands on POC’s in the AIC (academic industrial complex), it seems we should take our own advice and slow down. Models like the Creating Collective Access Project at the Allied Media Conference would help. CCA member cripchick posted this dope event accessibility checklist that should totally circulate more! Check the comments too!

Black Girls are from the Future: On Octavia Butler's Prophetic Visions, Their Survival and Progeny

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:46:20 -0400

crunkfeministcollective:

Hey friends! Please share your thoughts/ feedback/ recaps of the UCR Critical Ethnic Studies...

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:42:00 -0400

Hey friends! Please share your thoughts/ feedback/ recaps of the UCR Critical Ethnic Studies conference with us! Submit!

The Press-Enterprise: local coverage of CES conference

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:40:45 -0400

The Press-Enterprise: local coverage of CES conference

"This conference will likely prove to be the beginning of many exciting and necessary conversations...."

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:39:03 -0400

“This conference will likely prove to be the beginning of many exciting and necessary conversations. Calls to bridge scholarship with activism have been in heard in academia for decades now. At this conference, a new call was issued: to make scholarship and activism one in the same through a radical rethinking of colonial hegemony and the logic of genocide. The passion and intellect of the conference organizers and attendees should help ensure that this exciting moment in scholarly exchange becomes a lasting and influential new movement with impacts reaching far beyond the field of ethnic studies.”

- “Conference Notes: Critical Ethnic Studies and the Future of Genocide,” First Peoples blog

Re: Fuck the Academy; Fuck CES!!!

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 08:00:08 -0400

Re: Fuck the Academy; Fuck CES!!!:

criticalethnicstudies:

Its ironic that CES plenary speakers make these wonderfully radical calls to critical thinking & action yet they are highly professionalized & successfully entrenched in the academic industrial complex, as complicit institutionally as those at whom they level…

“Come on CES where are the critical voices of your very own conference/professional/ journal/careerist aspirations?”

I left a tenure-track academic position because I could no longer sustain a livelihood that left no time for creative and collaborative practice within alternative, independent spaces. Since then, I’ve participated in and supported an array of decolonizing creative-activist organizations.

I organized a panel for CES, got accepted, and looked forward to attending, for many, many reasons. But, as an adjunct instructor, the financial costs of attending got too high. Actually, the psychological costs got too high. I’m still recovering from a re-traumatizing experience in the job market, where I learned how little value I am to people who handle money in the academy. I canceled my trip and handed over the reins of my panel to a younger colleague who just got a good tenure-track job. I am rechanneling my professionalizing aspirations, the ones heavily internalized as a transgenerational gamble for security and survival that kept me in my tenure-track job too long.

I know a little bit of what it took to get CES off the ground, and the financial constraints set by the state of California that made it impossible to offer travel fellowships for people like me to attend.

This isn’t a defense of any plenary speaker or the conference.

This isn’t even an argument.

For nearly a decade, I spent my time in the tenure-track position building ethnic studies and it was a losing gamble for job security.

It also cracked open the contradictions in my identity and social position within the neoliberal university.

I am certainly not the only or the first person to have this experience. The ones who still have their jobs, or have their jobs because of our labor, or kept their jobs while pushing us out, are certainly alive and kicking.

I know conference organizers who have a bigger vision than this academic meeting.

I know I have one.

PLUM POSITIONS

for CM, JH, AVS

Women of color are

Often fired or leave

They get plum positions

Yes they do all hurrah

After so much hustling but

Some are not agreeable

To security know too much

Too little I write this wired

You are like the light wind

To security loved by all

I desire wounds sealed up

Forever women of color are

Often fired or leave

Then pop up now and again

In the afterlife of this dream

Crushing acorns beneath

Their feet facing true wind

Obits seal true

Cause: ABD WOC UC

Berkeley lover of house

Music aunt of a dozen

Northeast Ohios and pink

Satin funeral homes black

Girls are from the future

Naked and intergalactic

I wear dresses to activate

Armored force fields

When they no longer hire

Me I’ll go naked as bad taste

Get off on sovereign porn

Where POC = POC

And oversleep

The Future of Life

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 06:51:12 -0400

Yes, it is most definitely crucial to examine the material consequences of the systems of oppression which (critical) ethnic studies attempts to dismantle. We must focus on the dispossession, the disparity, and the dead bodies which are the result of oppressive regimes that enact power and violence on the behalf of white supremacy, settler colonialism, and heteropatriarchy.

But honestly, this gets tiring. As someone who always hears about how fucked we are because of these systems, it was hard for me to be at this conference because I hear these things every single day, albeit in less eloquent words. Personally, I find refuge in Ethnic Studies because of the most important lesson that it has taught me: that is to re-imagine and to re-configure the world around me. Like the previous post, I would have liked to see more of what is possible, what is just beyond our reach, what is desired by our communities. I think that when we talk more about what we desire and what we strive for and maybe a smidgeon less about the violence that has been enacted on our communities, then we can start developing better, more creative ways ways in which our theories can be born into praxis.

On a lighter but related note, if you`re going to have a conference that is heavy on the genocide and the heavy emotions, there definitely needs to be more wine.

peace. love. JOY. always.

Where are the ethnic studies faculty from UC and Cal State?

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 05:12:03 -0400

Where are the ethnic studies faculty from UC and Cal State?:

ryotsu:

miswritten:

wordsandsteel:

criticalethnicstudies:

An interesting group but I wonder where are the UC ethnic studies faculty; where are the activists? Seems a very narrow scholarly focus especially given the history of ethnic studies/

I was wondering this too— I know some UCSD Ethnic Studies faculty presented on Thursday and Friday, but I didn’t see/meet any Cal State folks. My other question is— where were the undergrads? What does it say about the conference that UCSD undergrads were the only group I saw in any number—they were supported and bussed in with assistance from the fantastic Cross-Cultural Center— except for the UCR student volunteers? Could the $50, or $150 day-of, registration fees be a part of the problem you think?!

ridiculous registration fees (where does that money go, anyway?) + timing (right before finals week). also, it was pretty obvi (from conference description and the conference itself) that the conference was not meant for undergrads or community members (to present or be present), or those not already entrenched in the academic-industrial complex.

i also wonder if UCR students were encouraged to actually attend the conference or to merely be volunteers (who weren’t given food and weren’t supposed to attend the plenaries, but were supposed to stand outside to make sure it wouldn’t get overcrowded and check people’s nametags so people who were crashing the conference couldn’t get into the plenary sessions)?

I agree with my friend cuz the timing, fees, and lack of encouragement for undergrads to participate. I was one of the two undergrads from UCLA that went to the conference, thanks to the UCSD Cross-Cultural Center for sponsoring me and my undergrad friends at UCSD for letting me know about this event while I was at UCSD Fall 2010. Throughout the conference, I couldn’t stop thinking about my friends back at UCLA who are missing out on this important dialogue…

Social Movements and Activism plenary liveblog

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 02:51:20 -0400

I liveblogged this plenary at Queer Geek Theory. Hopefully I didn’t misrepresent anything too severely—please comment with any connections.

Did anyone else blog or share their notes online? I love the twitter stream, but it’s so hard to refer back to and sadly I couldn’t manage this intensity of note-taking for everything I attended

Live Tweets from #cesa11 panel "Black Girls are from the Future: On Octavia Butler's Prophetic Visions, Their Survival and Progeny"

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 02:51:05 -0400

Live Tweets Here!

My people invented karma.: On Gender JUST

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 01:13:07 -0400

My people invented karma.: On Gender JUST:

bollywoodsuperstar:

During the Queering Ethnic Studies plenary at the Critical Ethnic Studies conference at UC Riverside, Cathy Cohen very brilliantly argued for a queer feminist ethnic studies project that takes into account not only interlocking/intersecting/interstitial social formations and oppressions, but…

Where are the ethnic studies faculty from UC and Cal State?

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:03:08 -0400

Where are the ethnic studies faculty from UC and Cal State?:

miswritten:

wordsandsteel:

criticalethnicstudies:

An interesting group but I wonder where are the UC ethnic studies faculty; where are the activists? Seems a very narrow scholarly focus especially given the history of ethnic studies/

I was wondering this too— I know some UCSD Ethnic Studies faculty presented on Thursday and Friday, but I didn’t see/meet any Cal State folks. My other question is— where were the undergrads? What does it say about the conference that UCSD undergrads were the only group I saw in any number—they were supported and bussed in with assistance from the fantastic Cross-Cultural Center— except for the UCR student volunteers? Could the $50, or $150 day-of, registration fees be a part of the problem you think?!

ridiculous registration fees (where does that money go, anyway?) + timing (right before finals week). also, it was pretty obvi (from conference description and the conference itself) that the conference was not meant for undergrads or community members (to present or be present), or those not already entrenched in the academic-industrial complex.

i also wonder if UCR students were encouraged to actually attend the conference or to merely be volunteers (who weren’t given food and weren’t supposed to attend the plenaries, but were supposed to stand outside to make sure it wouldn’t get overcrowded and check people’s nametags so people who were crashing the conference couldn’t get into the plenary sessions)?

curate: Philippines. February. 1986 via ellobofilipino Having...

Sun, 13 Mar 2011 19:58:00 -0400

curate:

Philippines. February. 1986 via ellobofilipino

Having just returned from the so-called Critical Ethnic Studies (Association) conference and being completely mentally and physically exhausted, all I want to say at this point (to a certain somebody) is:

Don’t speak to me of the future of genocide(s), the failures and trappings of revolution/desire/imagination, and the need to fuck off the academic-industrial-complex, as you speak from a podium as the Chair of an Official Academic Department sponsoring this Major Conference; wearing a barong and invoking Lapu Lapu (because somehow you are exempt from your own critiques and somehow your performance isn’t an appropriation of the symbols of Spanish/American genocides or doesn’t reproduce a “false” ancestral connection to the indigenous Filipino); willfully ignoring the material, affective, and intellectual labor of women of color feminists and queer of color theorists (some of whom are sitting behind you cleaning up your shit as you speak); creating strawmen to cut down (those strawmen being a monolithic Filipino American Studies and a non-critical, pre- or post-political Ethnic Studies that has no real basis in reality) when there are other much bigger and more powerful fish to fry (did we forget about Anthropology/Sociology/Political Science/Area Studies/History and….); while deploying the hateful, masculinist and violent rhetoric of warfare, death and “fucking” that relies on the same logic and discourse of this genocidal, militarist surveillance state that you can’t see any way out of or offer any possibilities for surviving.

Even if what you’re saying is true— and certainly some of it is, to a point— I don’t want to buy what you’re selling. And don’t pretend that this conference is about creating an Association, for you said yourself you don’t believe in collectivities (because that’s too old school and nostalgic, right?)— this conference was about selling yourself and your department as an intellectual vanguard to guide the rest of us wayward sheep (or rather should I say lemmings because we all need to jump off this genocidal cliff with you to be critical and important). Who’s complicit in genocide, the perpetuation of the neoliberal university, and structures of domination and subordination, now? Oh right, you and that (onto-epistemological) horse you rode in on. So, to borrow from your language, get the hell out.

One more thing- DR, you may call ‘86 a failed revolution, and you’re right, but when I look at this photo, I see hope, possibilities, and the will and practice of survival in the face of death. Photos like these give me sustenance and strength to continue surviving in this academy, of living on despite the daily assault coming not only from those big bad whiteys but from academics of color like yourself who should damn well know better by now. I channel these ancestors, and not your hate, to continue my praxis of solidarity, accountability, and ethical exchange with the folks that matter, the ones you can’t see as anything but already dead or already failed in some way. I’mma let you finish, but you can take your “critical” ethnic studies and I’ll just continue doing mine.

MAKIBAKA! HUWAG MATAKOT!

[a note of clarification, I am not curate, but simply reblogged the photo from her above, adding my own thoughts.]

CESA= Academic Industrial Complex Settler Colonialism asserting its authority over intellectual...

Sat, 12 Mar 2011 15:39:07 -0500

CESA= Academic Industrial Complex Settler Colonialism asserting its authority over intellectual terrain and branding it as a radical academic product in the marketplace of genocide.