Center for Race and Ethnicity at Rutgers University

10/09/2017

Check out the 12th Faculty Forum on Race and Ethnicity, Friday, 10/20/17! Details available on our website: http://raceethnicity.rutgers.edu/

09/18/2017

Rutgers professor Yarimar Bonilla on a recent Brian Lehrer show!

The Caribbean islands were hit hard by Irma. But how does the colonial history - and present - affect the residents and the islands' hurricane prep...

10/25/2016

Seats still remain! If you are a Rutgers graduate student (any campus), please join us tomorrow, Wednesday, 10/26 for a session on our new initiative, Who RU: Documenting Diversity. 4:30-5:30pm, 191 College Avenue, 1st Floor. Food and drinks provided!

10/20/2016

Check out our new instagram, . Here's today's post, submitted to us by Kathryn G, a doctoral student at Rutgers.
"I identify as Middle Eastern American, or more specifically Assyrian American, which is a diaspora, and my mom's family is from all over the Middle East, so I also identify as Lebanese, Syrian, and Iraqi (but Middle Eastern American is easier). The stories my mom and grandparents told me about their lives and struggles are some of my most important memories. People can't tell my ethnicity by looking at me because I look "ethnically ambiguous" (and generally automatically pass as Jewish these days because I changed my last name when I got married 5 years ago). Sometimes people think I'm Israeli or Arab-Jewish. Rutgers' diversity is one of the things I love most about it. The English department's Anti-racism Colloquium is starting some really important conversations."

10/19/2016

Coming next month! Screening and discussion of 13TH, an important new documentary by Ava DuVernay. Please join us!

10/19/2016

Follow us at our new instagram:

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10/18/2016

Seats still remain! If you are a Rutgers undergraduate, please join us for this information session on our new initiative, Who RU? Identity at Rutgers. Wednesday, 10/19, 6:00pm, Graduate Student Lounge
(Please note, a separate event targeted for graduate students will be held at a different time).

08/24/2016

Call for Proposals: 11th Faculty Forum on Race and Ethnicity. http://raceethnicity.rutgers.edu/news-and-events/205-call-for-proposals-11th-faculty-forum-on-race-and-ethnicity

Center for Race and Ethnicity, The School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

06/01/2016

Here's a recent article by CRE affiliated faculty member and former acting director Lisa L. Miller. In it, she highlights the arguments made in her new book, The Myth of Mob Rule: Violent Crime and Democratic Politics, published in April 2016 by Oxford UP. Congratulations, Dr. Miller!

Lisa L. Miller It has become fashionable among American liberals to condemn the American state for its great penal experiment that has left nearly two million Americans in prisons and jails and exp…

03/11/2016

Please note, this event is NOT taking place today--it is taking place on Friday, 3/25! Hope to see everyone there!

On Friday, March 25, 2016 from 12:00-2:00pm, join the Center for Race and Ethnicity for a roundtable discussion on
the history of slavery, featuring the work of four scholars who are
doing cutting-edge research into the diasporic experiences of enslaved
Africans. Topics they will illuminate include the creation of New World
ethnic identities among displaced Gold Coast Africans, urban slavery in
the Caribbean, African American captivity narratives, and the neglected
history of the fugitive slaves who escaped to Mexico during the
antebellum era.

Speakers include:
- Mekala Audain (History, The College of New Jersey)
- Marisa Fuentes (History/Women’s & Gender Studies, RU-NB)
- Keith Green (English, RU-Camden)
- Walter Rucker (History, RU-NB)

Location: CRE offices, 191 College Avenue, 1st Floor.

A light lunch will be served. Please RSVP to Mia Kissil at [email protected].

03/11/2016

May 6, 2016 - save the date for our conference!

CITY AS HEALTH POLICY,
exploring how city policies act as social determinants of health

The website is now live and registration is open at http://cityashealthpolicy.com/

The City as Health Policy interrogates how city policies and infrastructure work to promote or undermine health and well-being, especially when those policies are ostensibly at some remove from health.

03/11/2016

On Friday, March 25, 2016 from 12:00-2:00pm, join the Center for Race and Ethnicity for a roundtable discussion on
the history of slavery, featuring the work of four scholars who are
doing cutting-edge research into the diasporic experiences of enslaved
Africans. Topics they will illuminate include the creation of New World
ethnic identities among displaced Gold Coast Africans, urban slavery in
the Caribbean, African American captivity narratives, and the neglected
history of the fugitive slaves who escaped to Mexico during the
antebellum era.

Speakers include:
- Mekala Audain (History, The College of New Jersey)
- Marisa Fuentes (History/Women’s & Gender Studies, RU-NB)
- Keith Green (English, RU-Camden)
- Walter Rucker (History, RU-NB)

Location: CRE offices, 191 College Avenue, 1st Floor.

A light lunch will be served. Please RSVP to Mia Kissil at [email protected].