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Left to right: Emily Lordi, Courtney Thorsson, Salamishah Tillet, Jennifer Williams, Eve Dunbar (photo by Chelsea Bullock)

March 2, 2012—More than a hundred students, faculty and community members attended the symposium “Place and Displacement in African American Literature,” which took place in the Browsing Room of the UO Knight Library on March 2. Courtney Thorsson, a University of Oregon assistant professor of English, organized the group of scholars, who gave talks about their research. Presenters included faculty from Vassar College, University of Massachusetts, University of Pennsylvania, Goucher College, Duke University, and the UO.

Professor Eve Dunbar of Vassar College spoke about famed Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston’s ethnographic works Mules and Men and Tell My Horse. Dunbar invited audience members to consider the role of the American nationalism in Hurston’s writings.

Browsing Room, Knight Library
1501 Kincaid St.
UO Campus

Barbara Sutton will talk about the findings and arguments in her recently published book, Bodies in Crisis: Culture, Violence, and Women’s Resistance in Neoliberal Argentina (Rutgers 2010).

Barbara Sutton will talk about the findings and arguments in her recently published book.

Barbara Sutton received funding from the Center for the Study of Women in Society to pursue the research on which this book is based. Winner of the 2004 CSWS Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship, Sutton earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Oregon (2004). She also has a law degree from the National University of Buenos Aires (1993), Argentina. Sutton is an assistant professor of women’s studies at the University of Albany, SUNY, affiliated with the departments of sociology and Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino Studies.

Introduction for Dr. Beverly Wright, Director, Deep South Center for Environmental Justice

by Margaret L. Paris, Philip H. Knight Dean and Professor, University of Oregon School of Law

Dr. Beverly Wright (center) with CSWS Director Carol Stabile (l) and CSWS Associate Director Lamia Karim.

Dr. Wright spoke on “The Perilous Consequences of Public Policy Decisions: Weathering the Storm of Natural and Man-made Disasters in the Gulf” at the EMU Ballroom on February 2, 2011, sponsored by the Center for the Study of Women in Society Women of Color Project, School of Law, Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, Department of Anthropology, and the ASUO Women’s Center.

Along the Mississippi River in Louisiana, there is an 85-mile stretch between New Orleans and Baton Rouge known as the Mississippi River Chemical Corridor. This is an area humming with activity from literally hundreds of manufacturing plants producing chemicals, plastics, fertilizers, and oil products. And alongside these plants live thousands of people whose lives are affected profoundly by the presence and practices of these plants.

EMU Ballroom
1222 E. 13th Ave.
University of Oregon

Dr. Beverly Wright, environmental justice scholar and activist, is the founder of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice currently at Dillard University in New Orleans. The Center addresses environmental and health inequities along the Mississippi River Chemical Corridor and is a community/university partnership providing education, training, and job placement. Since Hurricane Katrina, the Center has focused largely on research, policy, community outreach, assistance, and the education of displaced African-American residents of New Orleans.

Dr. Wright served as the co-chair of Sustainable Energy and Environmental Taskforce for New Orleans Mayor-Elect Mitch Landrieu’s transition team.

Gerlinger Alumni Lounge
1468 University St.
University of Oregon campus

Book release event for Daniel HoSang’s new work, Racial Propositions. Refreshments will be served.

Daniel HoSang is assistant professor of ethnic studies and political science at the University of Oregon and a CSWS faculty affiliate. HoSang received faculty grant support from CSWS in 2009 for his research project “Reproductive Justice at the Ballot: Origins, Trends and Future Developments.”

Racial Propositions: Genteel Apartheid in Postwar California (University of California Press, Fall 2010), examines California’s history of racialized ballot measures in the post-World War II era to unearth the tangled roots of “color blind” racial politics.