American and Ethnic Studies

11/18/2016

Join AES faculty, staff and students in the collective effort to make the UW a sanctuary campus! Pease sign and share

Dear President Cauce, Chancellor Yeigh and Vice Chancellor Jeffords, We write to you about a matter requiring urgent attention. UW Bothell prides itself on being an inclusive, transformational, and engaged campus. Such commitments are at the heart of public education and part of a venerable traditio...

02/16/2016

Next Tuesday at 4 in UW1-041: "Carceral Geographies: Prisons, Cities, and Community Action" with Rashad Shabazz and Tamara Lea Spira. Hope you can make it! http://www.uwb.edu/calendar?trumbaEmbed=date%3D20160223 #/?i=1

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03/24/2015

Some great speakers in American and Ethnic Studies are coming to Seattle for this conference at the EMP next month:

"The annual EMP Pop Conference mixes together ambitious music writing of every kind, in an attempt to bring academics, critics, musicians, and dedicated fans into a collective conversation.
This year’s theme is “Get Ur Freak On: Music, Weirdness, and Transgression.” Presenters include a spectrum of writers, critics, musicians, public intellectuals, and interdisciplinary scholars—Ann Powers, Greil Marcus, Julianne Escobeda Shepherd, Sean Nelson, Mark Anthony Neal, Josh Kun, Eric Lott, Karen Tongson—the list goes on.
Conference keynotes, panels, and performances take place April 16–19, 2015 Museum: the conference is free, and registration is encouraged. See a full schedule and learn more at: http://www.empmuseum.org/calendar/events/pop-conference-2015.aspx

Annual conference at EMP about music’s role in the human experience. This year’s theme is “Get Ur Freak On: Music, Weirdness, and Transgression.”

02/21/2015

My article on Malcolm X & the long arc of black protest against prisons & police violence, now published on Al Jazeera: http://tinyurl.com/koeb8er

12/07/2014

Interview held by American and Ethnic Studies, and Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at University of Washington Bothell. Liked it? Check us out on faceboo...

12/05/2014

Big thanks to Jodi for her visit! We all had a great time, stay tuned for more content, videos of the interview and her amazing talk will be uploaded here!!

12/04/2014

This quarter we launched the core course for our revamped American and Ethnic studies major, "Power, Dissent, and American Culture." Today was our last day of class, and we feel really lucky to have had such a great group of students! It was a pleasure for us to teach this class.

09/24/2014

In 1971, activist George Jackson was mysteriously killed in San Quentin prison — a tragedy repeated time and again

09/12/2014

Yolanda Padilla interviews Curtis Marez, from UC San Diego.
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09/12/2014

Yolanda Padilla interviews Curtis Marez, from UC San Diego.
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09/12/2014

Yolanda Padilla interviews Curtis Marez, from UC San Diego.
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09/12/2014

Our very own Yolanda Padilla from the school of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences interviews Curtis Marez, from UC San Diego.
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