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.