Nov
29

Disability & Blackness: The Role of the Black Panthers in the Disability Rights Movement

REGISTER One of the hidden aspects of the Black Panther Party in the California Bay Area was its contributions to the nascent disability rights movement in the 1970s. In 1977, the Party famously supported a 26-day occupation of a federal...
Oct
26

The Movement for Immigrant Voting Rights: Journey, Victories, Backlash, & Future

RSVP Here Did you know that immigrant voting has long existed in the United States? And that San Francisco just won a court battle to resume noncitizen voting in local school board elections? Knowing this history and the current initiatives...

Cynthia Sanchez

Graduate Student Researcher
Oct
13

Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America

This talk excavates the ways that the US “opioid crisis” of the past two decades came to be seen as white. Based on over a decade of participant observation in the field of addiction medicine, which has evolved in tandem...
Oct
5

Where to next on migration for southern Europe? Analysing trends in narratives and policies

Immigration and migration management have been controversial topics across Europe for many years. Hostile rhetoric around refugees and other migrants has escalated and the subject has become deeply politicized.

David J.X. González

Assistant Professor of Environmental Health Sciences