Campus members are invited to a special virtual presentation featuring sitting U.S. poet laureate, Joy Harjo, Tuesday, April 6, 3-5 p.m. The event is sponsored by “We Stand Together,” a national coalition of presidents and chancellors from 14 universities, of which President Virjee is a member.
Animated films show some progress in female portrayals and messaging, but still have a long way to go, says research by Steven Chen, associate professor of marketing.
The Talk: A Journey Toward Anti-Racism is a video series that invited campus community members to talk about their personal journey to anti-racism, their concerns and their hope for a world that no longer divides by color but instead celebrates the commonality of our humanity. Participants from the project will be featured in a March 18 panel discussion during Social Justice Week. The project is a collaboration between the university’s Strategic Communications and Brand Management department and the Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Equity Programs.
My journey to anti-racism has been long, colorful, and of constant revelation. For many years, I was blind to just how deeply racism is rooted in our society. Throughout my life, I have been subjected to interpersonal acts of racism. I remember being a teenager, shopping in the grocery store with my mother. There was […]
A typical throwaway statement people make in causal and academic spaces is that “‘race’ is a social construct.” This statement is, of course, factual and even a given. People struggle the most with that though “race” is a social construct, both systemic and everyday racism is too concrete. As a scholar of “race,” racialization, and […]
Robert Castro, professor of criminal justice, discusses how President Biden is rolling back the previous administration’s immigration policies.
My grandfather was born and raised in Georgia. Papa was raised in the South in the ’40s and ’50s. When he moved West, he wanted to disassociate from the racism he grew up with, so we didn’t have “The Talk” about racial injustices. Basketball lifted him out of the South. He played in the Navy […]
The past year forced me to reflect on the nuance of anti-racism. In 2019, the term was almost entirely void from the common vernacular — merely a creative book title or a dismissed demand of activists. One year of hell later, it’s become the verbalized modus operandi. Since the murders of Breonna Taylor and George […]
The Tarsadia Foundation recently committed a $300,000 gift to the Center for Healthy Neighborhoods to support its three-year strategic plan.
Paying tribute to Black lives, Cal State Fullerton University Singers perform Bernice Johnson Reagan’s “Ella’s Song.”
