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Deb Vargas is an associate professor of ethnic studies at the University of California at Riverside. She earned her PhD in sociology with an emphasis in feminist studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Her research includes Chicano and Latino cultural studies, critical race feminisms, queer-of-color critique, popular culture, and borderlands theory. She will discuss her new book Dissonant Divas in Chicana Music: The Limits of La Onda (University of Minnesota Press, 2012), which draws on Chicana feminism, cultural studies, and queer-of-color analysis to examine the ways in which Chicana singers push the heteronormative limits of what she refers to as “sonic imaginaries of borderlands music.”

Presented by the Ethnic Studies Department, the Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS) Women of Color Project, and the Women’s and Gender Studies Department.

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Joan Morgan is an award-winning journalist and author, as well as a provocative cultural critic. A pioneering hip-hop journalist, she began her professional writing career freelancing for The Village Voice. She is the author of When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost, and her work has also appeared in MS., More, Interview, Working Mother, and GIANT.  A former staffer at both Vibe and Spin, she was asked in January 2000 to join the Essence staff, where she served as executive editor.

Charise Cheney

“Blacks on Brown: Intra-community Debates over School Desegregation in Topeka, KS, 1941-1955” published in the Winter Western Historical Quarterly won the Western Association of Women Historians’ Judith Lee Ridge Prize. Cheney is associate professor, UO Department of Ethnic Studies, and coordinator of the CSWS Women of Color Project.

Professor Michelle McKinley

February 21, 2012—University of Oregon associate professor Michelle McKinley, School of Law, has been awarded a prestigious American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship.

McKinley’s fellowship will support her continued work on the book manuscript “Fractional Freedoms: Slavery, Legal Activism and Ecclesiastical Courts, 1589-1700.” The UO Center for the Study of Women in Society awarded faculty research grants in 2009 and 2011 in support of McKinley’s archival research for this project, which “uses the lens of legal history, and legal anthropology to examine litigation undertaken by Peruvian slaves in 17th century ecclesiastical courts.” McKinley also credits the CSWS 2010 Writing and Promotion Workshop with benefiting her work on this manuscript.

“Why Oklahoma? All-Black Towns and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Indian Territory,” by Melissa H. Stuckey, Assistant Professor, UO Department of History

Melissa Stuckey’s paper is now available online in the Fall 2011 issue of CSWS Research Matters.

From her paper:

“For many people it comes as a surprise to learn that dozens of all-black towns were established in Oklahoma during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Two of the most frequent questions that I receive when relaying this fact are: ‘Why all-black towns?’ and ‘Why Oklahoma?’ My response to these questions tends to begin with an understanding nod and smile. Indeed, it was my own very similar set of questions that drew me to the study of Oklahoma’s black towns more than ten years ago.

Charise Cheney

Charise Cheney,  associate professor, UO Department of Ethnic Studies, is the new coordinator of the CSWS Women of Color Project. Cheney’s research interests include African-American popular and political cultures, black nationalist ideologies and practices, and gender and sexuality. She is the author of Brothers Gonna Work It Out: Sexual Politics in the Golden Age of Rap Nationalism (New York: New York University Press, 2005) and is currently working on a book about black resistance to school desegregation in Topeka, Kansas in the decade before Brown v Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. She earned her PhD at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.