Taeku Lee's primary research interests are in racial and ethnic politics, public opinion and survey research methods, social movements and political behavior, and health care and social welfare policies. Lee has also written on the role of identity, language, partisanship, political trust, stereotypes and discrimination in shaping contemporary race relations and ethnic politics in the US. He is currently at work on a second book on party identification and the politics of race and immigration, tentatively titled EXIT, VOICE, AND IDENTITY (with Zoltan Hajnal), as well as an edited volume on immigration and political incorporation, tentatively titled TRANSFORMING POLITICS, TRANSFORMING AMERICA (with Karthick Ramakrishnan and Ricardo Ramirez).

Taeku Lee is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. His book MOBILIZING PUBLIC OPINION (2002) received the American Political Science Association's J. David Greenstone Award for the best book on politics and history and the Southern Political Science Association's V.O. Key Award for the best book on Southern politics.

New Racial Studies is honored to be a co-sponsor for the 2007 Diversity Lecture.

Our speaker this year will be Troy Duster, Director, Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge, New York University and Chancellor's Professor, Department of Sociology, UC Berkeley. Duster was elected President of the American Sociological Association in 2005 and received the ASA's DuBois-Johnson-Frazier Award in 2001. The recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees, Duster is the author of BACK DOOR TO EUGENICS (2nd ed. 2003) and the co-author of WHITEWASHING RACE: THE MYTH OF A COLORBLIND SOCIETY (2003), among numerous other publications.

One of the leading authorities on race and science, Duster will discuss how our understanding of race is being reshaped by the genomics revolution. Sometimes unintentionally and sometimes not so innocently, genomics may be generating a new and more sophisticated scientific racism, not so different from the eugenics-based and criminological racism that flourished in decades gone by.

Over the past twenty years or so, Critical Race Theory has developed a radical reinterpretation of the dynamics of race and racism in the United States. Focusing attention chiefly on race and the law, critical race theorists have challenged some of the key foundations of US constitutionalism and jurisprudence, and gone beyond that to interrogate the legitimacy of the racial state and the effectiveness of democracy.

Work in this area raises the issue of critical race PRACTICES: How does a radical analysis of race and racism shape anti-racist identities and political activity? How should we understand race-consciousness today, in the age of "colorblind" racial ideology? What is our conception of racial justice, both in the legal and social senses of that term?

This symposium brings two national leaders of the Critical Race Theory movement together to discuss Critical Race Practice. Each will present a talk, and each will comment on the other's presentation. Time will be available for dialogue with student panelists, and with the broader audience.

DEVON CARBADO is Professor of Law and Associate Dean at the UCLA School of Law. He was elected Professor of the Year by the Class of 2000, is the 2003 recipient of the Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching, and was recently awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award from Harvard Law School's Black Law Students Association. Professor Carbado writes in the areas of critical race theory, employment discrimination, criminal procedure, constitutional law, and identity, and is currently studying African-American responses to the internment of Japanese Americans. Among many other writings, he is the author of "The Law and Economics of Critical Race Theory" (Yale Law Journal 2003), "Working Identity" (Cornell Law Review 2000) and "(E)Racing the Fourth Amendment" (Michigan Law Review 2002); and the editor of BLACK MEN ON RACE, GENDER AND SEXUALITY: A CRITICAL READER (1999) and TIME ON TWO CROSSES: THE COLLECTED WRITINGS OF BAYARD RUSTIN (2003). He is the Director of the Critical Race Studies Specialization at UCLA Law and a faculty associate of the Center for African American Studies.

JOHN A. POWELL is the Gregory H. Williams Professor of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, and the Executive Director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at the Moritz College of Law of the Ohio State University. Professor powell is a nationally recognized authority in the areas of civil rights, civil liberties and issues relating to race, poverty and the law. He is the organizer and convenor of the Structural Racism Caucus at the Leadership Council on Civil Rights in Washington DC. Among his many writings are the books THE RIGHTS OF RACIAL MINORITIES: THE BASIC ACLU GUIDE TO RACIAL MINORITY RIGHTS (1993) and IN PURSUIT OF A DREAM DEFERRED: LINKING HOUSING AND EDUCATION POLICIES (2001); the Ford Foundation report "Racism and Metropolitan Dynamics: The Civil Rights Challenge of the 21st Century" (2002); and the articles "A Minority-Majority Nation: Racing the Population in the Twenty-First Century" (Fordham Urban Law Journal, 2002), "The Multiple Self: Exploring Between and Beyond Modernity and Postmodernity" (University of Minnesota Law Review, 1997), and "Dreaming of a Self Beyond Whiteness And Isolation" (Washington University Journal of Law and Policy, 2005).

Over the past twenty years or so, Critical Race Theory has developed a radical reinterpretation of the dynamics of race and racism in the United States. Focusing attention chiefly on race and the law, critical race theorists have challenged some of the key foundations of US constitutionalism and jurisprudence, and gone beyond that to interrogate the legitimacy of the racial state and the effectiveness of democracy.

Work in this area raises the issue of critical race PRACTICES: How does a radical analysis of race and racism shape anti-racist identities and political activity? How should we understand race-consciousness today, in the age of "colorblind" racial ideology? What is our conception of racial justice, both in the legal and social senses of that term?

This symposium brings two national leaders of the Critical Race Theory movement together to discuss Critical Race Practice. Each will present a talk, and each will comment on the other's presentation. Time will be available for dialogue with student panelists, and with the broader audience.

JOHN A. POWELL is the Gregory H. Williams Professor of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, and the Executive Director of the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at the Moritz College of Law of the Ohio State University. Professor powell is a nationally recognized authority in the areas of civil rights, civil liberties and issues relating to race, poverty and the law. He is the organizer and convenor of the Structural Racism Caucus at the Leadership Council on Civil Rights in Washington DC. Among his many writings are the books THE RIGHTS OF RACIAL MINORITIES: THE BASIC ACLU GUIDE TO RACIAL MINORITY RIGHTS (1993) and IN PURSUIT OF A DREAM DEFERRED: LINKING HOUSING AND EDUCATION POLICIES (2001); the Ford Foundation report "Racism and Metropolitan Dynamics: The Civil Rights Challenge of the 21st Century" (2002); and the articles "A Minority-Majority Nation: Racing the Population in the Twenty-First Century" (Fordham Urban Law Journal, 2002), "The Multiple Self: Exploring Between and Beyond Modernity and Postmodernity" (University of Minnesota Law Review, 1997), and "Dreaming of a Self Beyond Whiteness And Isolation" (Washington University Journal of Law and Policy, 2005).

DEVON CARBADO is Professor of Law and Associate Dean at the UCLA School of Law. He was elected Professor of the Year by the Class of 2000, is the 2003 recipient of the Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching, and was recently awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award from Harvard Law School's Black Law Students Association. Professor Carbado writes in the areas of critical race theory, employment discrimination, criminal procedure, constitutional law, and identity, and is currently studying African-American responses to the internment of Japanese Americans. Among many other writings, he is the author of "The Law and Economics of Critical Race Theory" (Yale Law Journal 2003), "Working Identity" (Cornell Law Review 2000) and "(E)Racing the Fourth Amendment" (Michigan Law Review 2002); and the editor of BLACK MEN ON RACE, GENDER AND SEXUALITY: A CRITICAL READER (1999) and TIME ON TWO CROSSES: THE COLLECTED WRITINGS OF BAYARD RUSTIN (2003). He is the Director of the Critical Race Studies Specialization at UCLA Law and a faculty associate of the Center for African American Studies.

The history of US empire has been shaped by interaction between US foreign policy and racial politics. In a process of "imperial reconstruction" the shifting mandates of world power have made and remade the landscape of US racial politics. In 1906 Theodore Roosevelt mandated desegregation of Japanese students in San Francisco, in 1943 Franklin Delano Roosevelt repealed Chinese exclusion in defense of a wartime ally, and in 1954 the State Department trumpeted the Brown v. Board of Education as a Cold War message to the decolonizing world. Although the quest for US imperial legitimacy has proved to be a powerful impetus for domestic racial reform in the 20th century, imperial reconstruction has also had an exclusionary side that was organized around a politics of enmity. The internmentof Japanese Americans during WWII and the stigmatization of Arabs and Muslims in the aftermath of 9/11 are merely the most prominent examples of this. These dynamics of inclusion and exclusion point to the deepening embeddedness of the "American dilemma" of race in respect to global forces - economic, political, and cultural - and to the US empire's increasing need to reconstruct race in its own image.

Paul A. Kramer is Associate Professor of History at the Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of THE BLOOD OF GOVERNMENT: RACE, EMPIRE, THE UNITED STATES AND THE PHILIPPINES (University of North Carolina Press, 2006) and THE WORLD'S WORK: REFORM AND COLONIALISM IN THE U. S. EMPIRE (forthcoming).

Rogers Smith is the Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Previously he was Alfred Cowles Professor of Government, Yale University and Co-Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Race, Inequality, and Politics. Smith is the co-author of THE UNSTEADY MARCH: THE RISE AND DECLINE OF RACIAL EQUALITY IN AMERICA and the author of STORIES OF PEOPLEHOOD: THE POLITICS AND MORALS OF POLITICAL MEMBERSHIP, as well as CIVIC IDEALS: CONFLICTING VISIONS OF CITIZENSHIP IN U.S. HISTORY.

Lani Guinier is Bennett Boskey Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School. In 1998, she became the first black woman to be appointed to a tenured professorship at that institution.

Guinier came to public attention when she was nominated by President Bill Clinton in 1993 to head the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, only to have her name withdrawn without a confirmation hearing. Guinier turned that incident into a powerful personal a political memoir, LIFT EVERY VOICE: TURNING A CIVIL RIGHTS SETBACK INTO A NEW VISION OF SOCIAL JUSTICE.

A nationally-renowned speaker and the author of many articles and op-ed pieces on democratic theory, political representation, educational equity, and issues of race and gender, Guinier has written BECOMING GENTLEMEN: WOMEN, LAW SCHOOL AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE; THE TYRANNY OF THE MAJORITY; WHO%u2019S QUALIFIED (with Susan Sturm); and THE MINER%u2019S CANARY (with Gerald Torres).

The Shirley Kennedy Memorial Lecture honors the memory of one of Santa Barbara%u2019s most outspoken advocates for women, especially women of color. Dr. Kennedy transformed the Santa Barbara community with her commitment to social justice, activism, and democracy.

For additional information on the free event or the Shirley Kennedy Memorial Lecture Series: 893-3914

For all the recent attention to the slaveholding of the founding fathers, we still know remarkably little about the influence of slavery on American politics. In her recently-published book, Professor Einhorn tackles this problem in a new way. She examines the concrete policy decisions that slaveholders and non-slaveholders made in the critical realm of taxation. The result is surprising: -The enduring power of antigovernment rhetoric in the United States stems from the nation's history of slavery rather than its history of liberty.

Robin Einhorn is Professor of History at UC Berkeley and author of PROPERTY RULES:POLITICAL ECONOMY IN CHICAGO, 1833-1872.

New Racial Studies is gratified to be able to co-sponsor the "Torture and the Future" program. We expect this 2007 "Critical Issues in America" series to raise important questions of race and racism among the many social, political, and most centrally human and moral, issues it helps us explore.

The first speaker in the series is MARK DANNER, who will speak on "Into the Light of Day: Torture, Human Rights, and the War on Terror."

Mark Danner is a longtime staff writer at THE NEW YORKER, frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, and author of TORTURE AND TRUTH: AMERICA, ABU GHRAIB, AND THE WAR ON TERROR (New York: New York Review Books, 2004).

See the series website, where the full schedule of speakers and other activities, contact information, and information about sponsorship can be found:

<http://www.complit.ucsb.edu/projects/tortureandthefuture/index.html>

Author, poet, activist and journalist John Ross will speak about the impacts of the Zapatista rebellion on Mexico and the World over the past 12 years. Since its earliest hour, Ross has accompanied the Zapatista rebellion in Chiapas, breaking the story of the impending uprising in a small northern California weekly weeks before it occurred, contributing numerous articles on the uprising to the Mexican daily La Jornada, and writing three volumes chronicling this unique indigenous movement - Rebellion From the Roots (American Book Award winner 1995), The Annexation of Mexico (1998), and The War Against Oblivion (2000.) This talk will be based on his two volumes of Zapatista chronicles 1994-2006 -The War Against Oblivion and Making Another World Possible. The new volume tells the day-by-day story of this unique rebellion of Mayan indigenous peoples during the insurgents' most under-reported and least understood period and takes a long look at the rebels' Other Campaign and its implications for the Zapatista future. Making Another World Possible begins with the July 2000 election that brought Vicente Fox, Mexico's first opposition president in seven decades to power, and ends with massive electoral fraud in the July 2006 elections designed to keep Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador from winning the Mexican presidency, and the intense post-electoral struggle that followed. Making Another World Possible will be the first volume off the press to measure the outfall of the stolen election in addition to weighing the disasters that neoliberalism has wrought upon the Mexican landscape during the Fox years. Making Another World Possible takes readers on a tumultuous ride that touches on Bush's Terror War, the Iraqi genocide, Palestine, the anti-globalization movement, the plague of transgenic corn, the swing to the left in Latin America and to the right in the U.S. and how these world-shattering events have looked from the jungles and mountains of Chiapas where the Zapatista Army of National Liberation is building its autonomous structures.

Dr. Karolyn Tyson is currently Assistant Professor of Sociology at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on understanding the academic achievement of African American students, challenging the long-standing cultural thesis concerning black students associating academic excellence with "acting white." Dr. Tyson's findings have been published in Social Forces, Sociology of Education, and American Sociological Review. Her forthcoming text, Flippin' the Script: Black Students' School Success Reconsidered, examines the relationship between academic achievement and the culture of schools. In 2004, Dr. Tyson's research was heralded as one of the most "Noteworthy Ideas" in The New York Times Magazine's "Year in Ideas."

Dr. Tyson is currently a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Arts and Humanities at UNC Chapel Hill and was a Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar during 2005-06.

Howard Winant and Michelle Samura collaborated to produce a teaching guide for the FX network reality TV show BLACK.WHITE. Produced by Ice Cube, this 2006 six-episode series experimented with racial identity and investigated the realities of racism in the United States today.

In this presentation Winant and Samura will use some of their teaching guide material to explore the experience of race and common patterns of racism today. There will also be discussion of reality TV: can such shows as BLACK.WHITE. and THIRTY DAYS harness this format -- often seen as the epitome of vapidity -- to progressive objectives?

HOWARD WINANT is Professor of Sociology and Director of the New Racial Studies Project at UCSB. He is the author of THE WORLD IS A GHETTO and RACIAL FORMATION IN THE UNITED STATES, among other books.

MICHELLE SAMURA is a Ph.D candidate at UCSB and the coordinator of the New Racial Studies Praxis Project. She is a former high school teacher.

New Orleans author Brenda Marie Osbey is the poet laureate of Louisiana and Professor of English at Dillard University. Appointed by Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco in Spring 2005, Osbey is the first Louisiana laureate to be selected by a committee of peers.

Osbey, whose literary career spans nearly three decades, is the recipient of numerous literary honors and awards. Her last poetry collection, ALL SAINTS: New & Selected Poems (LSU Press) received the American Book Award and is now in its third printing. In Spring 2004, she was writer-in-residence at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France.

The system of imprisonment has huge consequences, not only for those incarcerated and their families, but for the society as a whole. To lock people up has always been the "default" solution to social problems: particularly the lack of social justice and opportunity, the deep inequality of American society. Yet this "solution" has become a major problem in itself. Incaraceration has been seen as a perverse economic system: the "prison-industrial complex." But it is also a threat to democracy. A relic of slavery, a system of racial despotism, a deeply gendered institution, the criminal "justice" system is also the nation's most comprehensive apparatus for disenfranchising the poor and nonwhite population of the United States.

Kimberle' Williams Crenshaw is Professor of Law at Columbia University and at the UCLA Law School. A pioneering voice in Critical Race Theory, she has written widely on civil rights, race and racism, and black feminism. She was a key participant in the recent THE STATE OF THE BLACK UNION forum produced by Tavis Smiley for CSPAN.

Crenshaw's talk is the keynote address in the New Racial Studies Project's RACE, CRIME, AND JUSTICE symposium that will take place on the UCSB campus on May 18 and 19, 2006. Other participants include Elliot Currie (UC-Irvine), Barry Krisberg (National Council on Crime and Delinquency), Glenn Martin (National HIRE Network), Vivian Nixon (Community/College Fellowship-CUNY), and organizers from the All of Us or None national ex-prisoners' network.

The American system of imprisonment has huge consequences, not only for those incarcerated, their families, and their neighborhoods but also for our society as a whole and especially for the civic life of the nation. Over the course of the twentieth century, locking people up has become a "default" solution to a variety of social problems: particularly the lack of social justice and opportunity and the inveterate inequality of American society. For some Americans, the experience of being "locked up" has become a "normal" part of the life course while others are seeing their contacts with the criminal "justice" system increase in frequency and duration.

In the beginning of the twenty-first century, it is clear that the mass incarceration "solution" has become a major problem in itself and the criminal "justice" system is experiencing a deep crisis of legitimacy. Today, many see the American system of punishment as a perverse economic system: the "prison-industrial complex," and as a serious threat to democracy. For many, the system is representative of a special brand of American democracy; a relic of slavery, a system of racial despotism, a deeply gendered institution, the criminal "justice" system is also the nation's most comprehensive apparatus for disenfranchising the poor and nonwhite population of the United States. Still more Americans believe that the system "works" and ignore the threat that three decades of "tough on crime" policies pose to person and polity.

In this symposium we will consider the contemporary criminal "justice" crisis as a racial phenomenon. Our goal is to reassert the importance of democracy, equality, and human rights in the organization and operation of the system. To that end, this symposium brings together scholars, students, activists, and grass-roots organizers, including formerly incarcerated persons, whose work helps us to better understand the macro-and micro-dimensions of the crisis and how best to challenge and change the contradictory nature of the American criminal "justice" system.

Osmundo Pinho is a leading Brazilian researcher, policy innovator and activist. Born in Salvador, Bahia, Dr. Pinho emerged from the Black Movement, Lesbian/Gay Rights Movement, and modernist cultural movements. He was the first Black person to direct the prestigious Afro-Brazilian Studies Center in Rio de Janeiro. Pinho's work focuses on cultural and labor struggles in the violent urban peripheries of Rio, and examines transnational, state, and community processes of forming, transgressing, and remaking modernist racial identities. A critic of both the "Afro-centric" and "racial democracy" discourses that dominate Brazilian racial scholarship, Dr. Pinho uses a queer/intersectionality approach to the analysis of agency of sexualized black youth at the margins of the neoliberal state and at the intersection of violent counterpublics.

Ashanti Alston, a former political prisoner and longtime community organizer who now works with Estacion Libre (an autonomous organization of people of color in solidarity with Zapatistas), speaks about issues of student organizing and community building in the post-9/11, post-Patriot Act environment. Alston also draws on his own history as a former Black Panther to parallel the struggles of African American and Latin@ communities in and out of the US.

This talk explores encounters between African Americans and the Middle East between 1850-1940 through black travel writing about the region. African American travelers to the Levant offer insight into the historical relationships between pan-Africanism, Zionism, colonialism, and orientalism. Moreover, black travel writing about the region requires rethinking the trajectories of African Diasporic thought and politics during the first decades of the twentieth century.

Alex Lubin is an Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico. He is the author of Romance and Rights: The Politics of Interracial Intimacy, 1945-1954.

How can scholars and educators overcome the anxiety that ordinary people experience regarding racism and racial inequality? How can we address people's confusion about how to talk about racial inequality, how to think about it, and how to overcome it?

One of our leading experts on racism and education, Mica Pollock studies everyday race dilemmas and disputes in U.S. public schools. Antiracist work in education, she argues, must clarify the ordinary moves that help produce racial inequality on a daily basis, and pinpoint those that might help dismantle it instead.

Mica Pollock is Associate Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is the author of COLORMUTE (2004) and of TOWARD EVERYDAY JUSTICE: DISPUTING EDUCATIONAL DISCRIMINATION IN THE NEW CIVIL RIGHTS ERA. She is currently editing a collection of essays titled EVERYDAY ANTIRACISM: CONCRETE WAYS TO SUCCESSFULLY NAVIGATE THE RELEVANCE OF RACE IN SCHOOL.

Nationally renowned as a dynamic speaker and insightful cultural critic, Robin D. G. Kelley is an award-winning author and leading United States African-American studies scholar. His teaching and research interests have focused on the African diaspora, urban studies, working class radicalism, and cultural history with an emphasis on music. Kelley is the author of seven books, including the award winning RACE REBELS: CULTURE, POLITICS, AND THE BLACK WORKING CLASS; FREEDOM DREAMS: THE BLACK RADICAL IMAGINATION; and YO' MAMA'S DISFUNKTIONAL! FIGHTING THE CULTURE WARS IN URBAN AMERICA.

He will examine the cultural influence of jazz in the 1950s, in particular the art of drummer Guy Warren, a Ghanaian musician considered by many critics to be the inventor of Afro-jazz.

Robin D. G. Kelley is the William B. Ransford Professor of Cultural and Historical Studies at Columbia University.

The groundbreaking feature-length documentary that unveils the reality of rape, other forms of sexual violence, and healing in African-American communities.

Presented at UCSB in conjunction with its world premier at the Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles this February.

%u201CWhy are we silent about one of the most barbaric intensely painful, ultimately destructive acts that any community can endure?%u201D

--Johnnetta B. Cole, Ph.D., President, Bennett College for Women, interviewed in %u201CNO!%u201D

In a talk based on her new book, Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace, Nancy MacLean argues that jobs play a fundamental role in the struggle for equality, and demonstrates the life-altering impact of the Civil Rights Act and the movement for economic advancement that it fostered. She also analyzes the conservative forces that assembled to resist movement demands, showing how they used the language of civil rights and "colorblindness" to roll back the gains made by racially-defined minorities, women, and workers from the 1970s on. This presentation is the annual Hull Lecture on Women and Social Justice.

Nancy MacLean is Professor of History and African American Studies, and Chair of the Department of History at Northwestern University.

Immigration is among the most contentious political issues in America, particularly in California, which is home to one of the nation's largest immigrant populations. While immigration is frequently discussed in California politics, some aspects of it are less directly addressed, although they exercise significant influence on the grassroots politics of immigration. Such neglected aspects often have to do with race and ethnicity.

To what extent have class fractures and immigration status complicated politics among and between racial groups? For example, does the conflation of the category of "immigrant" with Mexican American or Latinos/a feed hostility toward recent Latina/o immigrants among native born or long-resident Latino/a immigrants? Also, does the economic insecurity of low income African Americans in Los Angeles foster distrust and anger toward undocumented Latino/a immigrants? And does the class advantage of some Asian immigrants occasion their self-distancing from low-income immigrant groups, including low-income Asians and Latino/as?

How does the presence of millions of working immigrant women (whose independent incomes and heightened autonomy may vary significantly from women's situation in their countries of origin) challenge community norms in the U.S.? In addition, how have these women altered the gender dynamics among the families and firms who depend upon their labor?

Does hostility toward unauthorized immigrants generally serve as a way for immigrant and other marginalized groups to position themselves as "insiders" in America? If so, does hostility toward other immigrants and minority groups often become part of immigrant acculturation and of claims to citizenship?

As a "majority-minority" society, is California becoming a laboratory for the "new nativism" being preached by Samuel Huntington, Victor Hanson, and others? How have poorer immigrants -- those who've been targeted by the "new nativism" and its attendant social policies -- managed to cope and to organize in response to the litany of attacks directed against them? What have been both the possibilities and limits of their politics?

What do the state's shifting demographics -- produced in large part by immigration -- portend for voting behavior, cultural practices (religion, education, community and residence, media, norms and values), and economic development in general?

This symposium will engage these crucial questions by examining the interrelationship of racial, ethnic, and class hierarchies, and by looking at the complex labor dynamics that often shape immigrant identities in social and political conflicts. We seek to explore U.S. immigration not only as a large-scale issue of politics and policy, but also as pragmatic action, self-reflective action, being undertaken by millions of people under varied circumstances.

We seek to discuss immigration as both a state policy and a popular practice.

We welcome your participation.

Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo is Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Southern California. Her past research has focused on the intersections of gender and Mexican undocumented immigration and settlement, transnational families and the changing meanings of family life, and the informal sector, particularly the realm of paid domestic work. Her most recent book, Domestica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence (2001) won the 2001 C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems; the 2002 Max Weber Award, Section on Organizations, Occupations and Work, ASA; the 2002 Distinguished Contribution to Research, Latina/o Section, ASA; the 2002 Distinguished Book Award, Sex and Gender Section, ASA; and the 2002 Distinguished Scholarship Award, Pacific Sociological Association.

The leadership of the University of Michigan and its victories in the recent affirmative action lawsuits represent an important part of an ongoing commitment to diversity in higher education and North American society at large. Michigan has earned national credibility and accepted the responsibility to advance the ways by which diversity and education serve as means to achieve the goals of equity, democracy, and freedom in society.

Lester Monts is the Senior Vice-Provost for Academic Affairs, Senior Counselor to the President for the Arts, Diversity, and Undergraduate Affairs and the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Music (in ethnomusicology) at the University of Michigan.

Angela Davis is an activist and intellectual who is known worldwide for her opposition to the racism, cruelty, and injustice of the U.S. prison system. Her scholarly work on the intersections between race, gender, and class inequalities is also highly influential.

Her writings include: Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003); Women, Race, and Class (1983); Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "MA" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holliday (1999); Angela Davis: an Autobiography (1989).

Angela Davis is Professor of History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and University of California President's Professor of African-American and Feminist Studies.

Vilma Reis is Director of CEAFRO, the Center for Education and Training on Race and Gender Equity in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil. She is also a Professor of Sociology at the Federal University of Bahia and a Research Associate at the Project on Race and Democracy in the Americas of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA.

Danielle S. Allen is Dean of Humanities and Professor of Classical Languages and Literatures, Political Science, and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Presently a MacArthur Fellow, Professor Allen is author of Talking to Strangers: On Little Rock and Political Friendship and The World of Prometheus: the Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens.

Vijay Prashad is Associate Professor of International Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, CT. He is the author of eight books, including two that were chosen by the Village Voice as the top 25 books of the year, Karma of Brown Folk (2000) and Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity (2001). His most recent books are Keeping Up with the Dow Joneses: Debt, Prison, Workfare and Namaste Sharon: Hindutva and Sharonism under US Hegemony. He is currently writing The Rise and Fall of the Third World. Prashad writes two monthly columns for South Asian magazines: "Letter from America" and "Under Construction." He also publishes frequently in ColorLines, ZNET, and in Counterpunch. He is Vice Chair of the Executive Board of the Center for Third World Organizing; www.ctwo.org, on the Advisory Board of the Connecticut Union Community Fund (AFL-CIO), and an editor of Amerasia Journal and of The Subcontinental. He lives in Northampton, MA, where he is on the collective of the Valley War Bulletin.

Anna Marie Smith is an Associate Professor of Government, Cornell University. She is the author of New Right Discourse on Race and Sexuality: Britain, 1968-1990; and Laclau and Mouffe: The Radical Democratic Imaginary. Her work is in sexuality studies, race and racism, feminist theory, law and society, and theories of identity, power and ideology.

Professor in the History of Consciousness department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, James Clifford is best known for his historical and literary critiques of anthropological practice, travel literature, and Western exoticisms broadly conceived. He is the author of Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century; and The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art. He is the co-editor, with George Marcus, of Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography. His recent articles include "Taking Identity Politics Seriously" and "Indigenous Articulations."

Michael Hanchard is Professor of Political Science and African American Studies at Northwestern University, where he is also Director of the Institute for Diasporic Studies. Hanchard is the author of Orpheus and Power: The Movimento Negro of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1945 1988, and the editor of Racial Politics in Contemporary Brazil (Duke University Press, 1998). He is currently working on "Afro-Modernity: Race, Transnationalism, and the African Diaspora," a comparative analysis of the transnational political movements involving black political actors in the United States, Ghana, and Jamaica from 1955 to 1970, as well as a Web interactive pilot project called "Global Mappings: A Political Atlas of the African Diaspora", http://diaspora.northwestern.edu.

Lifelong organizer and activist Jack O'Dell will be joined by UCSB Black Studies professor Cedric Robinson and University of Washington historian Michael Honey in a panel discussion of the relationship between political economy and struggles for racial justice in the United States since World War II.

Evelyn Nakano Glenn is Professor of Women's Studies and Ethnic Studies and founding director of the Center for Race and Gender at the University of California, Berkeley. Her teaching and research interests focus on transdisciplinary methods, political economy of households, the intersection of race and gender, immigration, and citizenship. She is the author of Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor; Issei, Nisei, War Bride: Three Generations of Japanese American Women in Domestic Service; and Mothering: Ideology, Experience and Agency. This presentation is the annual Hull Lecture on Women and Social Justice.

Dr. Manuel Pastor is Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies and Director of the Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Dr. Pastor's most recent books include Modern Political Economy and Latin America: Theory and Policy, co-edited with Jeffry Frieden and Michael Tomz; Regions That Work: How Cities and Suburbs Can Grow Together, co-authored with Peter Dreier, Eugene Grigsby, and Marta Lopez-Garza; and New Dimensions on Race in America, co-authored with Angela Glover Blackwell and Stewart Kwoh.

A specialist in twentieth-century U.S. intellectual and political history, Dr. Phelps will explore articulations of African American history and the anti-Stalinist left through the vastly influential work of C.L.R. James.