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Fall
2006 Events:
Latasha
Harlins, Soon Ja Du, Joyce Karlins: Female Crime and Justice
on the Urban Frontier
Brenda
Stevenson
Tuesday,
September 19, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Sulzberger Parlor, Barnard Hall
On March
16, 1991, Latasha Harlins walked into a liquor market in
Compton, California. Within the course of five minutes,
she lay in front of the store's counter, dying from a single,
close range, gunshot wound to the back of her head.
Eight months later, a superior court judge determined that
her assailant, found guilty of voluntary manslaughter, would
not serve jail time. Her judgment fueled the flames
of the 1992 L.A. riots. This is the story of how the lives
of three female immigrants in Los Angeles--a poor, African
American high school freshman; a middle-aged, naturalized
Korean American shopkeeper's wife; and a relatively young,
affluent European American judge--intersect and explode,
creating an astonishing chapter in contemporary urban history.
Their "diversity," manifest by their racial, class
and generational affiliations or identities and "differences,"
evoke the "female side" to America's fundamentally
conflicted relationship with "others". The
circumstances of their "intersection" unveil female
immigrant status and struggles not traditionally discussed
in a comparative framework.
Brenda Stevenson is Professor of History, and recent Department
Chair, at UCLA. She is the author of Life in Black and
White: Family and Community in the Slave South (Oxford
University Press, 1996), various other studies, and is currently
working on two books: Fanny's Kin: Slave Girls and Women
in the American South, 1619-1865 and All Our's Daughter:
Latasha Harlins, Female Violence and Racialized Justice.
Classical,
Jazz, and Beyond: An Evening of Music by Immigrant Composers
The
Carpentier Quartet
Tuesday,
October 17, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Altschul Atrium, Altschul Hall
Public debates on immigration rarely, if ever, portray
newcomers as artists. Yet any partial list of immigrant
artists would sound like a catalogue in a major museum:
El Greco, Picasso, Dali, Chagall, Van Gogh, Modigliani,
Kandinsky, Gorki, De Kooning, Rothko, and so on. Five of
the last six Nobel Prize winners in literature in the U.S.
were born in some other country. So were most of the Julliard-trained
members of the Carpentier Quartet who will play the music
of other immigrants from Handel to Paquito D’Rivera.
The Carpentier Quartet, a 10-year-old ensemble, has performed
to enthusiastic reviews in numerous concert venues including
Carnegie Hall, the Brooklyn Conservatory, and Corcoran Halley
in Washington D.C. www.carpentierquartet.com
From Immigrants to Ethnics: Identity, Citizenship, and
Political Participation
Alejandro Portes
Tuesday, November 28, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Sulzberger Parlor, Barnard Hall
The lecture will review the character of immigrant politics
in the United States during the classic period of European
immigration and at present. A typology of contemporary immigrants
and key features of their political incorporation, including
U.S. citizenship acquisition and involvement in transnational
politics, will be introduced and explained.
Alejandro Portes is Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder
Beck Professor of Sociology, Chair of the Department of
Sociology, and director of the Center for Migration and
Development at Princeton University. He is the author of
some 220 articles and chapters on national development,
international migration, and economic sociology and of the
following award-winning books: City on the Edge: The
Transformation of Miami (California 1993), co-authored
with Alex Stepick; Immigrant America: A Portrait
(California 1996); and Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant
Second Generation and Ethnicities: Children of Immigrants
in America (California 2001) co-authored with Rubén
G. Rumbaut. Professor Portes has received honorary doctorates
from the New School for Social Research and the University
of Wisconsin, and is a fellow of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences and a member of the National Academy of
Sciences.
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