Cornell University, American Studies Program

https://events.cornell.edu/event/2025-krieger-lecture-in-american-political-culture-with-elizabeth-hinton Criminal Injustice: Crack Co***ne Laws and the Legacies with Elizabeth Hinton. Wednesday, March 19th. Krieger Lecture in American Political Culture.

2025 Krieger Lecture in American Political Culture with Elizabeth Hinton Criminal Injustice: Crack Co***ne Laws and Their Legacies Elizabeth Hinton reveals the history and consequences of the most blatantly racist criminal policy in the United States today: federal crack co***ne sentencing laws. Drawing on newly declassified archives, Hinton traces the deliberate targeti...

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Thursday, March 13, 5:00pm Un Movimiento Caminando/A Movement in Motion with Leigh-Anna Hidalgo, Yale University https://events.cornell.edu/event/2025-rabinor-lectures-in-american-studies-leigh-anna-hidalgo

https://events.cornell.edu/event/2025-rabinor-lectures-in-american-studies-stephanie-canizales Thurs, Feb 20 5:00pm
GSH 135 HEC Auditorium
Sin Padres, Ni Papeles: Unaccompanied Migrant Youth Coming of Age in the United States
Stephanie Canizales
University of California, Berkeley
Each year, thousands of youths endure harrowing unaccompa¬nied and undocumented migrations across Central America and Mexico to the United States in pursuit of a better future. Drawing on the firsthand narratives of migrant youth in Los Angeles, Cal¬ifornia, Stephanie L. Canizales shows that while a lucky few do find reprieve, many are met by resource-impoverished relatives who are unable to support them, exploitative jobs that are no match for the high cost of living, and individualistic social norms that render them independent and alone. Sin Padres, Ni Papeles illuminates how unaccompanied teens who grow up as undoc¬umented low-wage workers navigate unthinkable material and emotional hardship, find the agency and hope that is required to survive, and discover what it means to be successful

Biography: Stephanie L. Canizales, PhD, is a researcher, author, and professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is Faculty Director of the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative. She earned her PhD in Sociology from the University of Southern California (2018).
Stephanie specializes in the study of international migration and immigrant integration, with particular interest in the experiences of Latin American-origin immigrants and their descendants in the United States. Over the last decade, she has focused her work on the migration and coming-of-age of unaccompanied children from Central America and Mexico in California and Texas. Throughout her research and writing, Stephanie explores the role of immigration policy in shaping the everyday lives of migrant children and their families, how immigrants and the communities they arrive to transform one another, and immigrants’ articulations of success and well-being within an increasingly unequal US society. Stephanie’s first book, Sin Padres, Ni Papeles, takes on many of these issues.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Stephanie is the daughter of Salvadoran immigrants whose experiences growing up as unaccompanied youth in Los Angeles motivate her commitment to public scholarship. Stephanie’s research has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times, among other outlets. She also uses her expertise to inform policy through her work as U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Resident Scholar and a UNICEF USA Research Consultant.

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Learn local lore, Cornell historian Earle says in ‘Last Lecture’ | Cornell Chronicle Lecturer Corey Ryan Earle ’07, Cornell’s unofficial historian, gave the latest installment in the Last Lecture series, which invites a respected staff member or professor to give a lecture as if it were their final one.

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Chat in the Stacks with DUS Chloe Ahmann Today at Uris Library 4:30pm

Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore South Baltimore is one of the most polluted places in the country, and the deep roots of its ecological problems, as well as its efforts towards a better future are explored by Chloe Ahmann, assistant professor in the Dept. of Anthropology in her new book Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in La...

Join LSP Director, Professor Maria Cristina Garcia for a conversation about voting stereotypes with Professor Siba N’Zatioula Grovogui, Professor Derek Chang, and Professor Paul Ortiz. This American Studies event will occur Wednesday, Oct. 9, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at 106 Morrill Hall in the Arts Quad. Pizza and cupcakes will be provided. Be sure to stop by!



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Friday, Sept 13-Book Talk with Robin Bernstein (Harvard): Freeman's Challenge: The Murder that Shook America's Original Prison for Profit

Book Talk with Robin Bernstein Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit tells the story of William Freeman, an African American resident of Auburn, NY, who was accused of stealing a horse and incarcerated at the penitentiary there, where he resisted the uncompensated (forced) labor at the pr...

Happening Today: Kops Freedom of the Press Lecture with Kenneth Deer. 5:00pm, Lewis Auditorium Goldwin Smith G76

The 2024 Daniel W. Kops Freedom of the Press Lecture, Kenneth Atsenhaienton Deer The Eastern Door, a newspaper born out of crisis In 1990, two Mohawk communities were surrounded by Quebec Police and the Canadian Army for 78 days. It was called the Oka Crisis. In the aftermath of this incident, a newspaper was born to inform the community of Kahnawake and to combat misinformation...

Save the Date for Kenneth Deer presenting the Kops Freedom of the Press Lecture in the American Studies Program, September 10th-5:00pm, Lewis Auditorium Goldwin Smith G76 with American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program