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On Fire Talk: Working with Fire: Making Black Feminist Liberation in the South

McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United States

This talk opens in the wake of a 2012 arson attack on Women With A Vision (WWAV) and moves with the members of this Black feminist collective as they refused the terror of this attack and rose from the ashes to carry their foremothers’ work forward ever. Their story is a lesson for our times. Our whole world is on fire. And yet, WWAV shows us how the flames meant to destroy us can also ...

On Fire Talk: Mass Deportation as Racial Engineering

McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Ahilan Arulanantham will describe the role race discrimination has played in immigration and refugee policy, and how that history continues to play out in the current struggle over the Temporary Protected Status program. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. Ahilan T. Arulanantham is Professor from Practice and Co-Director of the Center for Immigration Law and Policy (CILP) at the UCLA School of Law. Ahilan teaches in the law school and also maintains an active ...

On Fire Talk: The Fires Last Time: Landlord Arson and the Reverb of Racial Capitalism

McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United States

This year's wildfires in L.A. turned a spotlight on a corner of the insurance world that typically exists in the shadows: the California FAIR plan, the state's insurer of last resort. Though it is now synonymous with wildfire risk, the FAIR plan is the byproduct of a very different conflagration: the Watts uprising of 1965. The strange career of the FAIR plan illustrates the links between the urban crisis of the late twentieth century and ...

Humanities Decanted: Josephine Metcalf

McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Join us for a dialogue between Josephine Metcalf (University of Hull) and Ben Olguín (English) about their new co-edited volume, The Life, Literature and Legacy of Luis J. Rodríguez: In the Long Run. Luis Rodríguez is a prominent Latinx poet, memoirist and activist renowned for his candid visceral accounts of urban working-class life that includes youth gang violence, incarceration and drug abuse, gruelling factory work and union organising activities and collective approaches to redemption and ...