Sneak Up: Statement of Purpose

Dopamine Regresssion by Melissa Cody

This Monday 24 October 2011 @ 11 AM in 242 César Chávez our Sneak Up will be lead by Student Learning Center Assistant Director Luisa Giulianetti.

Writing a Statement of Purpose is an art form and the time is at hand for statements:  graduate school applications, fellowships, research opportunities and grants.  Ms. Giulianetti will guide you through the ins and outs of crafting your best statement of self.  Writing these singular documents require vision, patience and creativity.  Join us as we take it one word and one line at a time.

 

Ohlone Indigenous Delegation at Occupy Oakland

Hearing Radmilla: What You Do and What You Don't

WHAT YOU DO and WHAT YOU DON'T 

A Conversation by and about

Black and American Indian Women 

Images and Voices 

African American Studies Conference Room

652 Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley 

Oct. 21st, from 2:30 - 4:30 pm.  

Join us for an afternoon conversation with several scholars

and artists from African Diaspora, African American and 

American Indians Studies.

Christina Bush

African Diaspora Studies Ph.D Student, UC Berkeley
Areas of research include: black masculine performance, 

“authenticity,” and sneakers 

Kim McNair

African Diaspora Studies, Doctoral Student, UC Berkeley
Areas of research include: commodification of Black Protest Culture, 

Remix Theory, performance of race, and t-shirt culture

Ianna Hawkins Owen

PhD student in African Diaspora Studies 
Areas of research include: the racialization of asexuality, desire and
abolition 

Obiamaka Ude 

African American Studies Recent Graduate, UC Berkeley
Areas of research include: women of African descent, identity, and hair
politics; social justice movements from a feminist perspective 

Radmilla Cody

Miss Navajo Nation 1997-1998, activist, and 

One of NPR's 50 Greatest Voices in Recorded History

Angela Webb

Documentary Film Director

Self Portrait by Niki Lee (Arikara/Caddo) 

Hearing Radmilla: The Voice

A Beautiful Dawn by Radmilla Cody.

Radmilla Cody speaks out about what it takes to continue to make art in our languages and on our terms.  This is how "We make a living." 

See:  Pirates of the Navajo Nation- Part 5

Assistant Prof. Kimberly TallBear-October 12 @ Noon

Joseph A. Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues Speaker Series:

From Blood to DNA, From "Tribe" to "Race": Science, Whiteness & Property


Kimberly TallBear, Assistant Professor, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley

with Troy Duster, Silver Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge, New York University, and Chancellor's Professor, University of California, Berkeley, as respondent

This talk will compare symbolic blood as it has been used in 20th and 21st-century U.S. tribal enrollment with the more recent advent of DNA testing for enrollment. I briefly examine both "Indian blood" and "tribe-specific blood" and compare these concepts with that of the "DNA profile" that is increasingly used in enrollment in concert with existing blood rules. How might DNA testing influence how we understand "Native American" as a racial category? I argue that genetic practices are more likely to "racialize" Native American citizenship than are current blood rules alone, and this is more harmful to tribal sovereignty than are blood concepts of identity.
-Wildavsky Conference Room, 2538 Channing Way, Berkeley
Co-sponsored by the Sociology Department and the Environmental Science and Polcy Management Department.