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SUMMARY:Who Are You?: Racial Classification and the Census
DESCRIPTION:Who Are You?: Racial Classification and the Census\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, February 20\, 2019 – 12:30pm to 1:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFreight & Salvage Coffeehouse\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow are individuals and groups racially classified\, what are the meanings attached to different racial categories\, and what impact do these categories have on a range of policies and practices? Taking the U.S. Census as a site of racial classification\, we’ll examine shifting state definitions of race and how individuals and groups assert\, embrace\, reject\, and negotiate different racial categories and identities. \nMichael Omi is a professor of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley and the co-author (along with Howard Winant) of Racial Formation in the United States (3rd edition\, 2015)\, a groundbreaking work that transformed how we understand the social and historical forces that give race its changing meaning over time and place. \n$10 for the general public. Free for OLLI members and UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, and staff.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/who-are-you-racial-classification-and-the-census/
LOCATION:Freight & Salvage\, 2020 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:Who Are You?: Racial Classification and the Census
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, February 20\, 2019 – 12:30pm to 1:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFreight & Salvage Coffeehouse\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHow are individuals and groups racially classified\, what are the meanings attached to different racial categories\, and what impact do these categories have on a range of policies and practices? Taking the U.S. Census as a site of racial classification\, we’ll examine shifting state definitions of race and how individuals and groups assert\, embrace\, reject\, and negotiate different racial categories and identities. \nMichael Omi is a professor of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley and the co-author (along with Howard Winant) of Racial Formation in the United States (3rd edition\, 2015)\, a groundbreaking work that transformed how we understand the social and historical forces that give race its changing meaning over time and place. \n$10 for the general public. Free for OLLI members and UC Berkeley students\, faculty\, and staff.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/who-are-you-racial-classification-and-the-census-2/
LOCATION:Freight & Salvage\, 2020 Addison St.\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay
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SUMMARY:GennaRose Nethercott and Miriam Bird Greenberg
DESCRIPTION:GennaRose Nethercott discusses her new collection\, The Lumberjack’s Dove with Miriam Bird Greenberg. Also featuring live shadow puppetry! \n  \n“Serious art does not need to be weighty or explicitly topical. It can be\, as it is here\, apparently as light as a feather: The Lumberjack’s Dove is\, in its manner\, a folktale; it is also a meditation on attachment\, on loss\, on transformation. Like its less humble relatives\, myth and parable\, it is pithy\, magical\, its many insights\, its cautions and clarifications\, unfolding in a chain of brief scenes and koan-like revelations. This is a book of unexpected lightness and buoyancy\, as necessary in our tense period as the more urgent confrontations.” –Louise Gluck \nA boldly original and visceral debut collection from the winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series Competition\, selected by Louise Gluck \nIn the ingenious and vividly imagined narrative poem The Lumberjack’s Dove\, GennaRose Nethercott describes a lumberjack who cuts his hand off with an axe—however\, instead of merely being severed\, the hand shapeshifts into a dove. Far from representing just an event of pain and loss in the body\, this incident spirals outward to explore countless facets of being human\, prompting profound reflections on sacrifice and longing\, time and memory\, and—finally—considering the act of storytelling itself. The lumberjack\, his hand\, and the axe that separated the two all become participants in the story\, with unique perspectives to share and lessons to impart. “I taught your fathers how to love\,” Axe says to the acorns and leaves around her. “I mean to be felled\, sliced to lumber\, & reassembled into a new body.” \nInflected with the uncanny enchantment of modern folklore and animated by the sly shifting of points-of-view\, The Lumberjack’s Dove is wise\, richly textured poetry from a boundlessly creative new voice.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/gennarose-nethercott-and-miriam-bird-greenberg/
LOCATION:Green Apple Books\, 506 Clement St\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94118\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Alan Brennert
DESCRIPTION:reads from Daughter of Moloka’i\, the sequel to his bestselling Moloka’i.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/alan-brennert/
LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Dani Shapiro in conversation with Elizabeth Rosner
DESCRIPTION:It was a simple test. Yet\, the course of her life changed forever. \nDani Shapiro\, the award-winning author of bestselling novels like Hourglass\, Devotion\, and more\, grappled with the self-shattering results of a simple DNA test. \nOn TLC and in heart-warming ads\, DNA testing is nothing more than a high-tech family tree for the digital age\, an over-the-counter science experiment to deepen our own personal understanding ourselves. But millions of Americans are finding a different experience. \nIn this intimate and heart-wrenching new memoir from one of the great writers of our time\, comes the true story of how Dani Shapiro discovered that her father was not truly her biological father. Her Jewish identity\, relationship to her family and to herself—they all underwent seismic change in a heartbeat. Upending a lifetime of secrets and untold stories\, this innocuous decision left Shapiro grappling with results no one could have ever prepared her for. Inheritance is a tour de force of what family truly means\, raw and emotionally realized. \nJoin us for a powerful and peerless evening\, as Dani opens this profound chapter of her life in conversation with fellow writer and family historian Elizabeth Rosner of Survivor Café. \nThese two stunning Jewish-American authors describe a selfhood built against the backdrop of history\, secrets\, and the often-unknown stories of those who came before us.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/dani-shapiro-in-conversation-with-elizabeth-rosner/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:Lyrics & Dirges: A Monthly Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Lyrics & Dirges features a mix of prominent\, emerging and beginning writers. Its aim is to highlight various forms of writing in an effort to spotlight the diverse literary community of the Bay Area. \nReading in February: \nJenny Qi is a writer and scientist. Her essays and poems are published or forthcoming in The New York Times\, The Atlantic\, Rattle\, ZYZZYVA\, BLR\, Atticus Review\, and elsewhere. Her poems have been nominated multiple times for the Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net\, and her first manuscript was a finalist for the Jake Adam York Prize. She has a PhD in Cancer Biology and works in science and health communications. She also co-hosts a storytelling podcast called Bone Lab Radio\, now in Season 2. Website: www.jqiwriter.com \nTony Aldarondo Is a Puerto Rican poet who has read his poetry from San Fran to Japan\, and in many venues throughout the bay area. He is an actor and a voiceover artist. And a member of the screen actors Guild\, and has toured the state of California with the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival. He loves writing Poetry\, plays\, and music and is super excited to read at Pegasus Books. \nHeather June Gibbons was born in Utah and grew up on an island in Washington. She is the author of the poetry collection Her Mouth as Souvenir\, winner of the 2017 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize (University of Utah Press) and two chapbooks\, Sore Songs (Dancing Girl Press)\, and Flyover (Q Avenue Press). Her poems have appeared widely in literary journals\, including Best New Poets\, Blackbird\, Boston Review\, Drunken Boat\, Gulf Coast\, Indiana Review\, jubilat\, New American Writing\, and West Branch. A graduate of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, she has been the recipient of a Full Fellowship Residency from the Vermont Studio Center\, the Pavel Strut Poetry Fellowship from the Prague Summer Program\, and the Harold Taylor Prize from the Academy of American Poets. She lives in San Francisco\, CA and teaches creative writing at San Francisco State University\, the Writing Salon\, and as a Teaching Artist for Performing Arts Workshop\, a youth arts education non-profit. \nJames Cagney is a poet from Oakland. He has appeared as a featured poet at venues throughout the San Francisco Bay Area\, Sacramento\, Vancouver\, and Mumbai. Nomadic Press will publish his first collection Black Steel Magnolias In The Hour Of Chaos Theory in August. Visit his blog at https://thedirtyrat.blog/ \nYaccaira Salvatierra is an educator and art instructor living in San José. Her poems have appeared in Huizache\, Diálogo\, Puerto del Sol\, and Rattle\, among others. She is a VONA (Voices of Our Nation) alumna\, the recipient of the Dorrit Sibley Award for achievement in poetry\, the 2015 winner of the Puerto del Sol Poetry Prize\, and a nominee for a Pushcart Prize. Although she has lived in over seven cities in California\, San José has been home for the past 17 years where she lives with her two sons. \nHosted and Curated by Mk Chavez.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/lyrics-dirges-a-monthly-reading-series-9/
LOCATION:Pegasus Books Downtown\, 2349 Shattuck Ave\, Berkeley \, CA\, 94704\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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