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Exploring Afro-Dignidad in Puerto Rican School Textbooks

Tuesday, October 24, 2023 - 11:00am to 12:30pm

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A presentation on Afro-Latinos and Education in collaboration with Isar P. Godreau and Mariluz Franco, scholars and educators in the Center for Interdisciplinary Research at the University of Puerto Rico, Cayey. Read more

A Conversation on Tuition Hikes

Wednesday, October 18, 2023 - 9:30am to 10:45am

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Come and discuss the pending student tuition hikes which the Board of Trustees imposed on the California State University system. Short screening of Board of Trustee public comment period followed by panel discussion. Breakfast will be provided. Co-sponsored by California Faculty Association (CFA) and Project Rebound. Read more

Conditional Belonging: The Racialization of Iranians in the Wake of Anti-Muslim Politics

Wednesday, October 11, 2023 - 2:00pm to 3:15pm

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Join us for a lecture and discussion with Dr. Sahar Sadeghi regarding her recently published book Conditional Belonging: The Racialization of Iranians in the Wake of Anti-Muslim Politics  (NYU Press, 2023). Dr. Sadeghi will detail Iranians’ complex and contradictory relationship with race, belonging, and identity through a comparative analysis of the Iranian experience in the United States and Germany, focusing particularly on the immigrants’ different processes of racialization. Read more

The Collaborative Piñata

Wednesday, October 4, 2023 - 12:00pm to 5:00pm

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Join us for a conversation on La Piñata Colaborativa [The Collaborative Piñata] and a piñata workshop with Dignicraft, and Purepecha master artisans Raúl Guzmán and Eduviges Solorio.

The Collaborative Piñata is an ongoing project with the community of Purepecha artisans who have emigrated from their ancestral land on the island of Janitzio, Michoacan to Rosarito, Baja California. Many Purepecha families living near the US-Mexico have become expert piñata makers for a US-based market, as a source of livelihood. Read more

Student Organizing & Tuition Hikes

Thursday, September 7, 2023 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

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Learn about the pending student tuition hikes and the history of student organizing and how it got done from various different student groups at CSUN. A Q&A portion will also discuss the common misconceptions of the tuition hikes and how to act against them.

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