» Engaging the World: Leading the Conversation on the Significance of Race (2020-2021)

• Chinatown Rising
  Film: Chinatown Rising is a documentary film about Asian-American Movement from the perspective of the young residents on the front lines of their historic neighborhood in transition.
  Panel Discussion with the scholar activists, featured in the documentary, on the front lines that helped form Ethnic Studies as a collaborative effort between Black, Chicano, and Asian American Communities at SF State.
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• Asian-American Month with Jubilee
  Guest Speaker: Jason Y. Lee, Founder & CEO of Jubilee Media
  Jubilee Media creates experiences to provoke a new culture of empathy. Known for viral series “Middle Ground,” “Spectrum,” and “Odd Man Out,” Jubilee has developed an audience of 6M+ subscribers and garnered 1B+ views. As the world becomes more divided, Jubilee bridges people together to create empathy, discourse, and love.
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• Women in the Forefront of Change in the U.S. and Globally, A Conversation with Barbara Ransby
  Barbara Ransby, Ph.D., is the John D. MacArthur Chair, and Distinguished Professor,in the Departments of African American Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies, and History at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). She also directs the campus-wide Social Justice Initiative, connecting academics and community organizers doing work on social justice.
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• Saving’ Le Van Minh: Humanitarianism & Policymaking for the Amerasians of Vietnam
  Guest speaker, Sabrina Thomas is an Associate Professor of History at Wabash College. Her research specializes in US Foreign Policy with a transnational focus on the intersections of race, nation, and war through the legacies of children born from international conflict.
• Film: Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America
  Streaming Link: www.pbs.org/show/driving-while-black/
  Driving While Black explores the deep background of a recent phrase rooted in realities that have been an indelible part of the African American experience for hundreds of years – told in large part through the stories of the men, women and children who lived through it.
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• Photographing Black Queer Identities
  Guest Speakers: Escalette artist Hakeem Adewumi and Angelica Allen, director, Africana Studies minor
  Hakeem Adewumi is a portrait photographer living and working in Dallas, Texas. Central to Adewumi’s work is the process of redefining and defying identity through the lens of Blackness and queerness. His work has appeared in group exhibitions at galleries and institutions across New York, London, Austin, and Dallas. He is a 2017 Fulbright scholar and holds a BA in African and African Diaspora Studies from the University of Texas at Austin.
• Film: Slaying the Dragon & Slaying the Dragon: Reloaded
  Guest speakers: Professors CK Magliola and Dr. Stephanie Takaragawa, FFC 100 Yellow Peril to Yellow Power, FFC 100 Feminism at the Movies
  Slaying the Dragon is an in-depth look at media’s generation of stereotypes of exoticism and docility of Asian and Asian American women in film.
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• Film: Children of Men
  Guest speakers: Professor Michael Moses and Dr. John Thrasher, FFC 100 Utopia and Dystopia in Film.
  Directed by Alfonso Cuarón, Children of Men is a dystopian science-fiction thriller. The film takes place in a futuristic United Kingdom on the brink of collapse after nearly two decades of mass human infertility.
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• Korea: The Beachhead for Liberty, Peace, and Protest
  Guest speaker: Discussion with Dr. Cameron McCoy, Dept. of History, U.S. Air Force Academy
  William J. Barber II, is a pastor and social justice advocate building a broad-based grassroots movement, grounded in the moral tenets of faith-based communities and the constitution, to confront systemic racism, poverty, environmental devastation, the war economy and the distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism in America today. Co-sponsor: Center for Study of War & Society
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• A Day in the Life: The Education of Black Youth
  Guest speaker: Discussion with Dr. Damien Sojoyner, Dept. of Anthropology, UCI, on his book "First Strike: Educational Enclosures in Black Los Angeles"
  Damien Sojoyner will discuss his book, First Strike which examines the root causes of California’s ever-expansive prison system and disastrous educational policy.
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• Film - 100 Years: One Women's Fight for Justice for Native Americas
  Guest speaker: Dr. Ron Steiner, FFC 100 Civil Rights in Constitutional History
  Over 100 years ago, the United States Government broke up numerous Indian reservations and allotted millions of acres of tribal land. The Government promised to manage the land and collect lease payments for oil, gas, timber, and grazing into an Indian Trust Fund, but instead the Department of the Interior grossly mismanaged the money owed to the Native peoples
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Past Film Series Flyers

• Fall 2020
• Spring 2020

Co-Directors:

• Prexy (Rozell W.) Nesbitt, Presidential Fellow in Peace Studies
• Stephanie Takaragawa, Associate Professor of Sociology

Committee:

• Mildred Lewis, Assistant Professor of English
• Jan Osborn, Associate Professor of English
• Justin Riley, Associate Director of Student Community Support and Development
• Lindsay Shen, Director of Art Collections
• Mary Shockey, Events and Development Coordinator
• Pete Simi, Associate Professor of Sociology
• Charissa Threat, Associate Professor of History
• Greg Walswick, Department Assistant of Sociology
• Tekle Woldemikael, Professor of Sociology

The Center for Peace and Kindness for an early donation that helped make the ETW events possible.

Special thanks to ETW Staff:

• Erin Berthon
• Allison DeVries
• Talisa Flores
• Laura Silva 

We also appreciate our partnerships with the following areas of campus, who made more events possible:

• Cross-Cultural Center and Shishei Tsang
• Escalette Collection Dr. Lindsay Shen and Jessica Bocinski
• Fish Interfaith Center
• Fowler School of Law and Dean Matt Parlow
• Guggenheim Gallery and Marcus Herse
• Liaison for Academic Service Learning Anat Herzog
• The Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education and Dr. Marilyn Harran