AIS Graduation 2010 Celebration!

American Indian Studies and SKINS invite you to the Spring 2010 American Indian Studies Graduation Celebration!

Native Foods Potluck so bring a tasty dish, but include a note in your RSVP!

There will an Opening Blessing by Joanne Campbell, Coast Miwok Elder and council member of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria.

Drum music and singing by the Sweetwater Singers

Send RSVP to aismain@sfsu.edu

Details:
Friday May 14th, 2010
3- 6PM, Program begins at 4pm
Richard Oakes Multicultural Center (In the Cesar Chavez Student Center)
San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Ave
San Francisco, CA 94132

Raza Graduation Reception 2010

¡Felicidades! Congratulations!

The Department of Raza Studies would like to invite the Class of 2010 Raza Studies Majors and Minors, along with friends and family, to come to a reception in your honor to celebrate your SFSU graduation and the completion of the Raza Studies Major or Minor degree program.

This is a time for fun, food, friends, family and faculty to join in honoring you and your accomplishments.

Please RSVP by May 7, 2010 at razamain@sfsu.edu. A prize will be awarded by random drawing of all students who have RSVP'ed by May 7. Seating will be very limited!

Details:

Friday, May 21st 2010

4 - 6 PM

EP Building, Room 116

1600 Holloway Ave,

San Francisco, CA 94132

Marlon Hom on Angel Island Detention Poems and Chinatown Songs

Join us for Lit&Lunch as we present an important exploration of frequently overlooked Chinese-American literature. First, we mark the 100th anniversary of the Angel Island Immigration Station with an evocative reading of poetry carved into its walls . Nearly 200,000 Chinese immigrants were detained on Angel Island, and many left poetry behand. Author, scholar, and director of the California State University International Programs in China Marlon Hom talks about these unique glimpses into the heart of the immigrant experience and how they were ultimately saved for future generations.

Then we turn to Hom's translations of Chinatown songs that pervaded San Francisco's Chinese-American community in the early 1900s. Hom talks about how these songs helped Chinese immigrants cope with the pressures of immigration and racism, as well as how they were published in 1911 and 1915, and their importance on subsequent Chinese-American literature.

Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
12:30 - 1:30pm
Presented by the Center for the Art of Translation
111 Minna Gallery
111 Minna St., San Francisco, CA 94105 (Minna @ 2nd)
FREE!!

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Future of Health Care: Eat Well, Be Well

The Holistic Health Institute is hosting a conference about what you eat! They will be taking a holistic approach to nutrition and health. The Keynote speakers are Ed Bauman, PhD from the Bauman College of Holistic Nutrition and Will Tuttle, PhD, author of World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony.

Saturday, April 17th, 2010
9am Check-In
9:30 - 4pm
Cesar Chavez Center, Jack Adams Hall
San Francisco State University @ 19th Ave & Holloway

Suggested donations: $5 - SFSU Students, Faculty & Staff w/ ID, $10 - Others

There will a be panel of speakers including:

Daphne Miller, MD author of The Jungle Effect: The Healthiest Diets from Around the World
Julie Cummins, Director of Education, Center for Urban Education for Sustainable Agriculture
Abbie Scianamblo, Ayurvedic Practitioner & Founder, Sorelle Paradiso, Organic Olives
Amie Harper, PhD, Sistah Vegan: Black Female Vegans Speak on Food, Identity, Health & Society

Workshops:
Inflammation & Food as Medicine
Vegetarian, Vegan & Raw Diets
Herbs, Essential Oils, & Botanicals Intelligence in Health & Healing
Treating Illness with Nutritional Supplements
Nutrients & Metabolism in Mental Health & Cognitive Enhancement
Role of Emotion in Food Addiction, Nutrition & Eating Disorders

Breaking the Silence by Gloria Rolando

For the first time in 10 years, film director Gloria Rolando will set foot on US soil. She will preview her new film entitled, 1912:Breaking the Silence / 1912, Voces para un Silencio on campus.

Tuesday, April 27, 2010
2:10 - 5 pm
HUM 587

The Reception for Ms Rolando will be earlier in the day in the EP Building Room 116
12 - 2pm

For more information check out the AfroCuba website.

Lecture: Contemporary Idealogical Threats to African Americans

Faculty and students are invited to attend an upcoming lecture by Dr. Michael Tillotson on "Contemporary Ideological Threats to the Internal Security of African Americans".

Thursday April 15, 2010, from 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Ethnic Studies and Psychology Building @ San Francisco State University
Room 101.

In the aftermath of two terms of the Reagan presidency, the Republican Revolution, Contract with America and the rise of "Centrist" democratic leadership, a surprising mix of intellectual, social and political ideas emerged in the last decade of the 20th Century to form the corpus of ideas located in the post racial project. Intellectual and political positions such as postmodernism, essentialism, the social construction of race and the color-blind position resulted in an amalgamation of ideologies that (Dr. Tillotson argues) neutralize African American agency. This presentation will illuminate, explore and critique the post racial discursive interventions present in this body of ideas and argue that if accepted uncritically these concepts have the potential to reduce the collective agency of African Americans. Using an African centered lens this presentation will also highlight the lack of continuity between the post racial projects public pronouncements, polemical stances and central ideas versus the lived reality of most African Americans.

Dr. Michael Tillotson Ph.D. is currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow in African American Studies at the University of Houston. He holds Associates and Bachelor?s degrees in Liberal Studies from Indiana University in Bloomington. He has a Masters degree in Africana Studies from the University of New York and received his Ph.D. in African Americans Studies from Temple University in 2008. His current research agenda centers on the intersection of Anti-Egalitarian, Hegemonic
Ideologies and their influence on African American reality. He is the author of the forthcoming book: Invisible Jim Crow: Contemporary Ideological Threats to the Internal Security of African Americans.

For any further information please contact:
Serie McDougal III, mcdougal@sfsu.edu

Congratulations!! Race and Resistance Studies Minor approved!

Congratulations goes out to the Race and Resistance faculty. They have created the College of Ethnic Studies' newest minor program. On April 6th, 2010 the Academic Senate unanimously approved the proposal for the new minor program.

IndiVisible: African-Native American lives in the Americas

Professor Robert Collins currently has an exhibition on tour with the Smithsonian entitled:

IndiVisible: African-Native American lives in the Americas

In the exhibition, Professor Collins takes a detailed look at the history of intertwined lives of African Americans and Native Americans.

"Over centuries, African Americans and Native Americans created shared histories, communities, families, and ways of life. Prejudice, laws, and twists of history have often divided them from others, yet African-Native American people were united in the struggle against slavery and dispossession, and then for self-determination and freedom.

For African-Native Americans, their double heritage is truly indivisible."

For more information check out the Smithsonian link.

The Oak Park Story / A Village called Versailles -- Double Feature

The Oak Park Story recounts the journeys of three families‐‐from Cambodia, Mexico, and California‐‐who band together at a run‐down slum in Oakland CA and win a landmark settlement against their landlord.

Directors Valerie Soe and Russell Jeung, our very own Professors in Asian American Studies will be on hand to answer questions and take pictures.

Free Admission
HUM 133 @ San Francisco State University
April 16th, 2010
Showing: 1:15­ - 1:40 PM

For more info go here: http://theoakparkstory.wordpress.com/

Their homes destroyed. Their voice discovered.

A documentary film by:
S Leo Chiang

In a New Orleans neighborhood called Versailles, a tight‐knit group of Vietnamese Americans overcame obstacles to rebuild after Hurricane Katrina, only to have their homes threatened by a new government‐imposed toxic landfill. A VILLAGE CALLED VERSAILLES is the empowering story of how the Versailles people, who have already suffered so much in their lifetime, turn a devastating disaster into a catalyst for change and a chance for a better future.

HUM 133 @ San Francisco State University
Showing: 2:00­3:10

For more info: http://avillagecalledversailles.com/

Welcome to the College of Ethnic Studies blogroll!!

Hey everyone, just want to welcome you to the first ever blogroll for the College of Ethnic Studies @ San Francisco State University. Here we will post news articles and events pertaining to the College, along with detailed information and links. Hope you find and enjoy what you read here!