Critical Race Theory Across Disciplines at UCLA

What is it?

The purpose of the mixer is to bring together emerging and existing critical race scholars across campus to:

• Create community amongst CRT scholars across departments and disciplines.
• Connect with different graduate Student of Color groups across campus.
• Meet graduate/professional school students and faculty whose work focuses on race and racial justice. 
• Learn how graduate students can take Critical Race courses outside their department.
• Expose graduate students interested in Critical Race Theory (CRT) to the core concepts and scholars in the field.
• Identify opportunities for interdisciplinary publication of CRT-related projects.
• Incorporate a working group of students and faculty from interested departments in the planning of the annual  Critical Race Studies symposium.

• Establish an interdisciplinary “CRT Think Meeting” to present works-in-progress, emerging projects, or propose collaborations.

Convenors

The Critical Race Studies Program at the UCLA School of Law (CRS at UCLA) in conjunction with Critical Race faculty at the School of Public Affairs, the School of Public Health, and the Graduate School of Education and Information Science.

Co-Sponsors

UCLA’s Graduate Students of Color, Planning Students of Color, and Students Helping Assure Racial Equality and Diversity.

Schedule

The mixer rotates between the interested departments on campus.  The Schedule for the 2009-10 school year is as follows:

            Fall Quarter 2009:      School of Law, Shapiro Courtyard        Thursday, October 15th    5pm - 7pm
            Winter Quarter '10:   School of Public Affairs                        TBA
            Spring Quarter '10:    Open                                                    TBA
            Summer 2010:            Open                                                    TBA

Registration 

We ask that you register ahead of time in order to facilitate cross-departmental contact and plan for the event. 

">Background Materials

This section provides background materials related to the goal of promoting cross-disciplinary CRT collaboration.  The first set of materials provides one example of a scholarly piece that applies critical and race conscious frameworks to each of the disciplines involved in this collaboration.  The second set of materials highlight UCLA as a site central to the emergence of critical race theory as a school of thought and as a site of contestation for racial representation and access to academia, knowledge production, and the training of professionals and scholars committed to social justice.

Critical race frameworks across disciplines:

Kimberle W. Crenshaw, et al., "Critical Race Theory:  Key Writings that Formed the Movement," (1995).

Daniel G. Solorzano and Dolores Delgado Bernal, "Examining Transformational Resistance Through a Critical Race and LatCrit Framework," Urban Education (2001)

CP Jones, "'Race,' Racism, and the Practice of Epidemiology, American Journal of Epidemiology," (2001)

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UCLA:  Ground Zero in the Struggle for Access, Racial Equality, and Equity:

Al Muratsuchi, "Race, Class and UCLA School of Law Admissions, 1967-1994," Chicano-Latino Law Review (1995)

Cheryl I. Harris, "Critical Race Studies:  An Introduction," UCLA Law Review (2002)

David Hayes-Bautista, et al, "Reginaldo Francisco del Valle: UCLA's Forgotten Forefather," (2009)

Richard Delgado, "Liberal McCarthyism and the Origins of Critical Race Theory," Iowa Law Review, (2009)

Contacts

Eduardo Lopez edlopez@gseis.edu or Rita Kohli, rkohli@ucla.edu - Teacher Education, GSEIS 
Waiyi Tse, School of Public Affairs, wtse@spa.ucla.edu
Chandra Ford, School of Public Health,  clford@ucla.edu
Saul Sarabia, School of Law, crs@law.ucla.edu