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May 9, 2023
May 9, 2023
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Following months of state and local stay-at-home orders to safeguard against the spread of COVID-19, a series of precipitating events of anti-Black state and state-sanctioned violence re-catalyzed a wave of protests, demonstrations, and other direct actions against the persistent strain of policing on Black people in the United States.
May 9, 2023
May 9, 2023
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Public discussions of Asian American media representation are often overdetermined by narratives of the racial injury of Hollywood stereotypes, or what Black feminist Patricia Hill Collins called “controlling images.”
May 4, 2023
May 4, 2023
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In David Oh’s presentation “Whitewashing Anime Remakes: Ghost in the Shell and Dragonball Evolution,” he makes a theoretical argument for “whitewashing” as an erasure of difference that centers and makes visible White subjectivity.
April 10, 2023
April 10, 2023
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The landscape of affirmative action in higher education has evolved, with an imminent Supreme Court decision drawing renewed attention. Regardless of legal outcomes, institutions must proactively promote diversity, equity, and inclusion. This panel discussion provides socio-historical context and insights from leaders navigating state-level affirmative action bans.
March 23, 2023
March 23, 2023
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We find ourselves living in another year of ever-intensifying anti-LGBTQIA2+ violence. But, as Audre Lorde said to the 1989 graduates of Oberlin College, “... I do have hope.
March 21, 2023
March 21, 2023
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Scholars are navigating changing spaces embedded in a system that can be slow and resistant to an evolving digital world. They are receiving competing messages about how and when to develop a digital brand and engage on social media.
March 17, 2023
March 17, 2023
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Please join us for an opportunity to meet selected grantees of the 2022 Anti-Racism Graduate Research Grants. Sponsored by Rackham Graduate School, Center for Racial Justice (CRJ), and the Anti-Racism Collaborative at the NCID...
March 15, 2023
March 15, 2023
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The Diversity Scholars Network is a scholarly community committed to advancing understandings of historical and contemporary social issues related to identity, difference, culture, representation, power, oppression, and inequality — as they occur and affect individuals, groups, communities, and institutions.
March 10, 2023
March 10, 2023
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Earlier this semester, I had the pleasure of interviewing three incredible Latina organizers and creatives–Gladys Godinez, Cecia Alvarado, and Karina Perez, co-authors on this essay–with decades of experience advocating with and for Latino communities.
March 6, 2023
March 6, 2023
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February 23, 2023
February 23, 2023
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Please join the U-M Library, LSA Technology Services, and the National Center for Institutional Diversity for a webinar symposium featuring the recipients of the Anti-Racist Digital Research Initiative mini-grants.
February 22, 2023
February 22, 2023
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In this virtual panel and discussion, Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez (Michigan State University) and Ryan James Kernan (Rutgers University) will share their groundbreaking research on the literary and cultural translation of Blackness before engaging in a discussion moderated by Aaron Coleman, U-M’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Critical Translation Studies.
February 10, 2023
February 10, 2023
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Initially a hashtag, but now a global movement, #BlackLivesMatter emerged as a response to the 2013 acquittal of Trayvon Martin's murder. With the mission to eradicate white supremacy and build local power to intervene in violence inflicted on Black communities by the state and vigilantes, the global network is expansive, affirms the lives of Black queer and trans folx, as well as Black peoples' humanity.