Events

In The Manufacturing of Job Displacement: How Racial Capitalism Drives Immigrant and Gender Inequality in the Labor Market (NYU Press, 2024), Dr. Laura López-Sanders investigates the structural mechanisms by which employers shape labor market inequalities through practices of “racialized orchestrated displacement.” Drawing on nearly two years of participant observation as both a laborer and supervisor, as well as in-depth interviews, Dr. López-Sanders offers a nuanced analysis of how employers in low-turnover industries...

This talk will focus on my book, Making Never-Never Land: Race and Law in the Creation of Puerto Rico, which argues that despite the endurance of Puerto Rico’s colonial status well into the twenty first century, its path to becoming one of the world’s oldest colonies was not exceptional. Race and law have acted as organizing principles structuring the US-Puerto Rico relationship since its inception. I argue that to fully understand how and why Puerto Rico was organized in law, we must look to a longer history of US...

Join us at the Institute of Governmental Studies Library on Wednesday, November 13th at 4:00pm for "California and the Nation Vote: A Post-Mortem on the 2024 Election". This moderated panel discussion will share their thoughts on the outcome of the election, the impact of ballot measure campaigns as a mobilization strategy, and what the results mean for the future of the GOP and the progressive movement, respectively, both in CA and nationally.

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From campaigns to stop the construction of the borough based jails, to tenants organizing rent strikes against predatory landlords, this talk will explore the connections between gentrification, carcerality, and abolition. Drawing from her community collaborations in New York’s Chinatown, Dr. Diane Wong focuses on how Asian American women, queer, and non-binary youth are engaging in abolitionist organizing to build a more inclusive and intergenerational movement for housing justice. What insurgent practices already exist within...