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April 2, 2024
Dissertation Support Granted to Two Graduate Students Through RESI-Cantú Graduate Research Fellowship
The Race & Ethnic Studies Institute announces the Spring 2024 recipients of the RESI-Cantú Graduate Research Fellowship. A fellowship designed to support current Texas A&M doctoral students complete their dissertation or some significant component thereof. RESI-Cantú Graduate Research Fellowship The Race & Ethnic Studies Institute (RESI) and the Carlos H. Cantú Endowment & Scholarship Fund […]
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January 23, 2024
8 Tips for a Stronger Grant Proposal at RESI
Tips for Preparing Grant Proposals at RESI At the Race & Ethnic Studies Institute we have multiple funding opportunities to help enhance your research. Whether you’re a faculty member, graduate or undergraduate student, we have research funding to take your project to the next level. We understand that grant writing is its own genre and […]
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November 14, 2023
RESI Supports Student Research Through First Ever Fundraising Campaign
The Research First Campaign is an invitation for Texas A&M’s community to support transformative research within race and ethnic studies. It is the first fundraising campaign led by the Race & Ethnic Studies Institute. The Research First campaign is a benefit to current Aggies, at all levels and across all disciplines, by creating the opportunity […]
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October 30, 2023
New Graduate Student Research Grant Supports the Advancement of Three Projects in Race & Ethnic Studies
The Race & Ethnic Studies Institute announces the inaugural recipients of the RESI Graduate Student Small Research Grants. This grant is designed to support the research enterprise leading to successful completion of some component of the doctoral dissertation, masters thesis or a major publication. RESI Graduate Student Small Research Grant Over the last year, the […]
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October 5, 2023
Two Graduate Students Gain Dissertation Support Through the RESI-Cantú Graduate Research Fellowship
The Race & Ethnic Studies Institute announces the recipients of the RESI-Cantú Graduate Research Fellowship. A fellowship designed to support current Texas A&M doctoral students complete their dissertation or some significant component thereof. RESI-Cantú Graduate Research Fellowship The Race & Ethnic Studies Institute (RESI) and the Carlos H. Cantú Endowment & Scholarship Fund have collaborated […]
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September 7, 2023
National Hispanic-Serving Institutions Week
The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) has announced that September 11-17 is National Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) Week. This week is established to recognize the contributions of HSIs in their communities and within higher education. Observing Hispanic-Serving Institutions Week The Race & Ethnic Studies Institute is proud to join HACU, an association committed to […]
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August 29, 2023
Introducing RESI’s Advisory Board
The Race & Ethnic Studies Institute is proud to welcome our new advisory board who will be charged with assessing the qualifications of grant applications and offering guidance on key issues. This group of established faculty members bring decades of experience and research expertise. RESI’s Advisory Board The Race & Ethnic Studies Institute aims to […]
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July 20, 2023
RESI Supports Race & Ethnic Studies Research Over Summer
This summer, the Race & Ethnic Studies Institute has funded various research initiatives, further committing itself to the advancement of race and ethnic studies. Through RESI’s new research initiatives, we are supporting four projects led by Texas A&M College of Arts & Sciences faculty and graduate students. Funding Cutting Edge Research in Race & Ethnic […]
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July 10, 2023
New RESI Co-Sponsorships Program
The Race & Ethnic Studies Institute is now offering co-sponsorships to support programming on campus that aligns with our mission, scope, and vested interest in high quality research. The first deadline is September 1, so don’t delay!!! Head on over to our Co-Sponsorships page to read more and apply. Supporting Events that Further Our Mission One […]
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July 10, 2023
Applications for Two Graduate Student Funding Opportunities Due September 1
The Race & Ethnic Studies Institute is proud to offer funding for graduate student research projects early in the academic year. We know that students are coming off the summer ready to hit the ground running and we want to be able to support that ambitious work. We’re doing that with two programs. Two Graduate […]
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July 7, 2023
Meet Your RESI Team for 2023
The Race & Ethnic Studies Institute has been through a lot of changes and iterations over the years, but one thing has remained constant: we are an institute dedicated to fostering, celebrating, and producing cutting edge research related to race and ethnic studies among the community of scholars at Texas A&M University and beyond. On […]
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March 28, 2023
“For a Just and Better World”: Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands
The Race and Ethnic Studies Institute (RESI) invites you to attend our upcoming book talk on Wednesday, March 22 at 12 PM CDT, featuring Dr. Sonia Hernandez, Associate Professor of History, from Texas A&M University. Dr. Hernandez research specializes in the intersections of gender and labor in the U.S.-Mexican Borderlands, Chicana/o history, and Modern Mexico. […]
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March 28, 2023
Social Movement Contemporary Dance Theatre Presents: Movements New & Revised
Join us on Saturday, April 1 at 7PM in Rudder Auditorium for a live dance performance by the Social Movement Contemporary Dance (SMCD). The SMCD promotes social consciousness through creative arts and community engagement. Their original work, Movements: New & Revised, consists of three works, ‘In Syndication’, ‘The Culture’, and ‘We the People’. ‘In Syndication’ […]
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February 9, 2023
Community Conversation with Dr. Nadia Y. Kim
The Race and Ethnic Studies Institute (RESI) invites you to attend our upcoming event on Monday, February 27th at 12 PM CDT in Rudder Tower 404, featuring Dr. Nadia Y. Kim, Professor of Sociology and of Asian & Asian American Studies at Loyola Marymount University. Her research focuses on US race and citizenship inequalities regarding […]
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February 3, 2023
“Behind the Shield” Panel Discussion
Please join us for a film screening and panel discussion on “Behind the Shield” on February 9th, 12 PM at Rudder Tower 313. You can register using the following link: https://tamu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0cwgRKOeiAsnkwu
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January 31, 2023
Historicizing Black Women’s Intellectual Traditions in Cuba
The Race and Ethnic Studies Institute (RESI) invites you to attend our upcoming colloquia on Wednesday, February 8 at 12 PM CDT in Rudder Tower 707, featuring Dr. Takkara Brunson. Associate Professor of History at Texas A&M University. Brunson’s research focuses on the political and cultural traditions of the African Diaspora, with emphasis on how […]
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January 20, 2023
Reparations Reconsidered
The Race and Ethnic Studies Institute (RESI) invites you to attend our upcoming colloquia on Thursday, February 23 at 2 PM CDT, featuring Dr. Rinaldo Walcott, Carl V. Granger Chair in African American Studies, from the University of Buffalo (SUNY). Dr. Walcott’s teaching and research are in the area of Black diaspora cultural studies and […]
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November 21, 2022
RESI Paid Internship Opportunities
RESI seeks to hire two paid interns -- (1) Video Production and Social Media Intern and (2) Content Design and Social Media Intern for the remainder of the 2022-2023 academic year. The internship will expose students to applied research and programming related to race and ethnicity. The intern, with the guidance of the team, will be responsible for creating video content and for monitoring its performance across various platforms. See job descriptions for additional information.
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September 20, 2022
Racialized Geographies: Structural Violence at the U.S – Mexico Border
Racialized Geographies: Structural Violence at the U.S – Mexico Border The Race and Ethnic Studies Institute (RESI) invites you to attend our upcoming colloquia on Tuesday, September 27 at 12PM CDT in Rudder Tower 501, featuring Dr. Maria Cristina Morales from the University of Texas at El Paso. Dr. Morales will unpack how the U.S.-Mexico […]
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September 13, 2022
A Panel and Open Conversation on HSIs
The number of colleges and universities that are eligible to qualify as an HSI has rapidly increased over recent years. Our panel of scholars will openly interrogate the Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) designation and its impact on the higher education landscape.
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September 7, 2022
Nobody’s Pilgrims and Nepantla Familias: Sergio Troncoso on Writing About the Borderlands and Beyond
The Race and Ethnic Studies Institute (RESI) invites you to attend our upcoming book talk on Tuesday, September 13th at 12PM CDT in LAAH 453, featuring renowned author Sergio Troncoso. Mr. Troncoso is the son of Mexican immigrants and is an El Paso, Texas native.
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April 14, 2022
Asian American Communities in Transformation: Changing Demographics and Racial Politics
Tuesday, April 19th at 12 PM CDT. Dr. Janelle Wong, professor in the Asian American Studies Program at the University of Maryland, will virtually reflect on the historical origins of the Asian-Pacific Islander population.
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April 6, 2022
Incarceration and the Production of Vulnerability: Heat and COVID19 in Texas Prisons
You're invited to join our upcoming Colloquia on Tuesday April 12th at 4pm CDT, with Dr. Purdum of the School of Public Health, and Dr. Dixon, of the Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center, as they present their research on the extreme conditions of Texas prisons.
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February 8, 2022
Counting Frequency: Un/gendering Violence Against Black Women
The Race and Ethnic Studies Institute (RESI), in partnership with the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, the Africana Studies Program, Department of Anthropology and Department of Sociology, invites you to attend our upcoming virtual Colloquia on Wednesday, February 23 from 4:00-5:30 PM CST. This program will feature Dr. Christen Smith, Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
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February 7, 2022
The Significance for Understanding and Recognizing Racial Battle Fatigue
The Race and Ethnic Studies Institute (RESI), invites you to attend our upcoming Colloquia on Tuesday, February 22 at 12:00 PM CST. Dr. William Smith, Chair of the Department of Education, Culture and Society at the University of Utah, will be delivering his presentation designed to provide evidence for evaluating more effectively and holistically how our society functions differently for racialized people.
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February 7, 2022
The Other Side of the Strong Black Women: Individual, Cultural and Systemic Factors Associated with Risk for Mental Illness and Linkage to Treatment
The Race and Ethnic Studies Institute (RESI), invites you to attend our upcoming Colloquia on Thursday, February 17th at 12 PM CST. Dr. Inger Burnett-Ziegler, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Northwestern University, will be presenting her research examining the characteristics of the cultural icon the ‘Strong Black Woman’.
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January 27, 2022
Pedagogies of Hope
A Community Conversation on Black Healing, Love and the Work of bell hooks
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January 14, 2022
Racial Dimensions of US Post-9/11 Counterterrorism and the Conflict in Burkina Faso
The Race and Ethnic Studies Institute (RESI), invites you to attend our upcoming virtual Colloquium on Tuesday, January 25 at 12PM CST. Dr. Stephanie Savell, co-director of the Cost of War Project at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, will be presenting the current conflict in Burkina Faso and the US role in it.
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December 3, 2021
An Interview with Dr. Lara Medina
The Race and Ethnic Studies Institute (RESI) and the Cantu Endowment invite you to attend an open discussion with Dr. Lara Medina of California State University of Northridge on Wednesday, December 8 at 6 pm. This conversation will focus on Dr. Medina’s research on the Day of our Lady of Guadalupe (Dia de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe) and Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos) celebrations.
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November 3, 2021
Solidarity from the Ground Up: Addressing the Systemic During Disasters in Mutual Aid Communal Responses
The Race and Ethnic Studies Institute (RESI), in partnership with the Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center, invites you to attend our upcoming online Symposium on Wednesday, November 10 from 9:30-12:00 PM CST. Learn more about mutual aid from our esteemed guest panelists - Dr. Felipe Hinojosa, Dr. Simi Kang and Professor Dean Spade.
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October 19, 2021
Adaptive Liminality: Land Stewardship
A growing body of scholarship advances the validity of vernacular African American placemaking and architecture as a by-product of protest, cultural expression, and international design. Dr. Robers shares lessons from recorded practices among members of the freedom colony diaspora.
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October 18, 2021
Celebrate 30 Years with RESI and learn about our anniversary week!
The Race and Ethnic Studies Institute (RESI) is celebrating thirty years of service with RESI Week. Join us November 1-5, 2021 as we gather to explore the many conversations surrounding race and ethnicity. Our 30th Anniversary Keynote Address will be given on Thursday, November 4 by renowned scholar Dr. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva. RESI Week will include a mix of online and face to face formatted events. Learn more about the schedule.
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October 11, 2021
The Evolution of Juan Crow in Higher Education: From Lulac v Richard to the Present
The Race and Ethnic Studies Institute (RESI), in partnership with the Department of Sociology, invites you to attend our upcoming virtual Colloquium on Wednesday, October 13 at 12PM CST. Dr. Isabel Araiza, Associate Professor of Sociology and Coordinator of Mexican American Studies at Texas A&M Corpus Christi, will be presenting a critical look at the higher education opportunities provided to Mexican Americans.
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September 28, 2021
Emerging Hispanic-Serving Institution and the Rhetorical Challenges of ‘Servingness’
The Race and Ethnic Studies Institute (RESI) invites you to attend our upcoming virtual Colloquium on October 5, at 1PM CST. Dr. Darrel Wanzer-Serrano, Associate Professor and Associate Head of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion...read more
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September 7, 2021
Two Graduate Fellowships Available
The Race & Ethnic Studies Institute (RESI) and Carlos H. Cantu Hispanic Education and Endowment Fund are partnering for two Graduate Fellowships for Texas A & M University doctoral students. The RESI-Cantu Graduate Fellowship is a year-long fellowship awarded annually to one Ph.D. level student at Texas A&M University whose research contributes to the analyses […]
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July 30, 2021
The Encyclopedia of Native Music: More Than a Century of Recordings from Wax Cylinder to the Internet
The Encyclopedia of Native Music recognizes the multifaceted contributions made by Native recording artists by tracing the history of their commercially released music. It provides an overview of the surprising abundance of recorded Native music while underlining its historical value. With almost 1,800 entries spanning more than 100 years, this book leads readers from early performers […]
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July 30, 2021
All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto
All Boys Aren’t Blue: In a series of personal essays, prominent journalist and LGBTQIA+ activist George M. Johnson explores his childhood, adolescence, and college years in New Jersey and Virginia. From the memories of getting his teeth kicked out by bullies at age five, to flea marketing with his loving grandmother, to his first sexual […]
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July 30, 2021
Black Girl, Call Home
From spoken word poet Jasmine Mans comes an unforgettable poetry collection about race, feminism, and queer identity. With echoes of Gwendolyn Brooks and Sonia Sanchez, Mans writes to call herself—and us—home. Each poem explores what it means to be a daughter of Newark, and America—and the painful, joyous path to adulthood as a young, queer […]
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July 30, 2021
Fiebre Tropical
Fiebre Tropical: Uprooted from her comfortable life in Bogotá, Colombia, into an ant-infested Miami townhouse, fifteen-year-old Francisca is miserable and friendless in her strange new city. Her alienation grows when her mother is swept up into an evangelical church, replete with Christian salsa, abstinent young dancers, and baptisms for the dead. But there, Francisca also […]
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July 30, 2021
Queer Love in Color
Queer Love in Color features photographs and stories of couples and families across the United States and around the world. This singular, moving collection offers an intimate look at what it means to live at the intersections of queer and POC identities today, and honors an inclusive vision of love, affection, and family across the spectrum […]
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July 30, 2021
My Life in Transition: A Super Late Bloomer Collection
My Life in Transition is a story that’s not often told about trans lives: what happens beyond the early days of transition. Both deeply personal and widely relatable, this collection illustrates six months of Julia’s life as an out trans woman—about the beauty and pain of love and heartbreak, struggling to find support from bio family and the importance […]
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July 30, 2021
Occupied America: A History of Chicanos
Authored by one of the most influential and highly-regarded voices of Chicano history and ethnic studies, Occupied America is the most definitive introduction to Chicano history. This comprehensive overview of Chicano history is passionately written and extensively researched. With a concise and engaged narrative, and timelines that give students a context for pivotal events in Chicano history, Occupied […]
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July 30, 2021
George Washington Gomez: A Mexicotexas Novel
Fiction. “An absorbing, heart-rending story told with sensitivity and wisdom. George Washington Gomez deserves a wide readership not only for its artistry but also for its subject matter” -Beaumont Enterprise.
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July 30, 2021
Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza
Rooted in Gloria Anzaldúa’s experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist, and a writer, the essays and poems in this volume profoundly challenged, and continue to challenge, how we think about identity. Borderlands / La Frontera remaps our understanding of what a “border” is, presenting it not as a simple divide between here and there, us […]
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July 30, 2021
All the Agents and Saints: Dispatches from the U.S. Borderlands
After a decade of chasing stories around the globe, intrepid travel writer Stephanie Elizondo Griest followed the magnetic pull home–only to discover that her native South Texas had been radically transformed in her absence. Ravaged by drug wars and barricaded by an eighteen-foot steel wall, her ancestral land had become the nation’s foremost crossing ground […]
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July 30, 2021
Documents of American Indian Removal (Eyewitness to History)
The Indian Removal Act transformed the Native North American continent and precipitated the development of a national identity based on a narrative of vanishing American Indians. This volume is a probing look into a chapter in American history that, while difficult, cannot be ignored. Sweeping in its coverage of history, it includes deeply personal accounts of […]
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July 29, 2021
Spirited Encounters: American Indians Protest Museum Policies and Practices
During the twentieth century, dozens of protests, large and small, occurred across North America as American Indians asserted their anger and displayed their disappointment regarding traditional museum behaviors. In response, due to public embarrassment and an awakening of sensitivities, museums began to change their methods and, additionally, laws were enacted in support of American Indian […]
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July 29, 2021
Wiping the War Paint Off the Lens: Native American Film and Video
Wiping the War Paint off the Lens traces the history of Native experiences as subjects, actors, and creators, and develops a critical framework for approaching Native work. Singer positions Native media as part of a larger struggle for “cultural sovereignty”-the right to maintain and protect cultures and traditions. Taking it out of a European-American context, […]
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July 28, 2021
Free Boy: A True Story of Slave and Master
In 2013, Lorraine McConaghy and Judy Bentley published FREE BOY: A True Story of Slave and Master (Seattle: University of Washington Press). FREE BOY explores the decision of slave Charles Mitchell to flee his master James Tilton, on September 24, 1860, following a tiny Puget Sound Underground Railroad. FREE BOY follows the twined biographies of […]
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July 28, 2021
Up from slavery: An autobiography by Booker Taliaferro Washington
Complete online text of novel, “Up from slavery: An autobiography” by Booker T. Washington. Original copyright expired. Each chapter is transcribed and online as text pages.
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July 28, 2021
Elbert Williams: First to Die
Before the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman & Mickey Schwerner in 1964; Medgar Evers in 1963; or Harry T. Moore in 1951, Elbert Williams on June 20, 1940, in Brownsville, Tennessee, became the first known NAACP official murdered because of his civil rights activity. Read about this historic incident.
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July 26, 2021
Freedom Narratives: Testimonies of West Africans from the Era of Slavery
Testimonies of West Africans from the Era of Slavery. York University. Searchable. https://freedomnarratives.org/
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July 26, 2021
The Making of African American Identity, Vol I 1500-1865
Primary Resources thematically organized with notes and discussion questions. National Humanities Center Toolbox Library. http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/maai/index.htm
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July 26, 2021
The Making of African American Identity, Volume II, 1865-1917
Primary Resources thematically organized with notes and discussion questions. National Humanities Center Toolbox Library. http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/maai2/index.htm
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April 27, 2021
Erasure and Exclusion: White supremacy, coloniality and anti-Asian racism
Please join RESI on April 30 at 5:30-7 p.m. for our virtual discussion with Dr. Hye-Kyung Kang of Seattle University titled "Erasure and Exclusion: White supremacy, coloniality and ant-Asian racism," focusing on anti-Asian racism and it's roots, followed by a dialogue about the roots of racism in the United States. Register for this virtual conversation
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April 19, 2021
Iced Out: A discussion on Winter Storm Uri (The Freeze), racial disparity, place and planning
Please join the Race and Ethnic Studies Institute and the Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center for a panel discussion with scholars and activists about the impact disasters like Winter Storm Uri (February 2021) have on communities of color and how to build equity and continued resilience. Date: Friday, April 23rd, 2021 Time: 11 a.m.-1 p.m. *This is a virtual panel* Please register here
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April 19, 2021
In Retrospect and Prospect: Monuments, Iconography, & the Black Freedom Struggle
In a provocative and eye opening talk, on April 20, from 2-3:30 pm, Dr. Lionel Kimble will explore the visual narratives that have been impacting the Black Freedom Struggle.
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February 24, 2021
Screening and Discussion: The First Rainbow Coalition
The Texas A&M Race & Ethnic Studies Institute (RESI) and the Carlos H.Cantu Center for Hispanic Education & Opportunity Endowment on March 2nd, 2021 at 6pm for the screening of the film The First Rainbow Coalition, followed by a panel discussion director Ray Santisteban, Henry Gaddis and Jose “Cha Cha” Jiminez.
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February 10, 2021
Too Black for the Blues …Too Blue for the Blacks
An Exploration of Black Police Officers in the Era of Black Lives Matter Dr. Preito-Hodge analyzes Black Police Officers in a Northeastern Police Department, introducing her original theoretical framework, The Black and Blue Typology (BBT), which accounts for officers' role orientations as well other factors that may influence Black officer representation in Black communities.
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November 13, 2020
RISE Conference 2021 Call for Papers
The Texas A&M Race, Identity & Social Equity (RISE) Program Committee invites proposals for the fourth annual conference that will take place virtually on Thursday and Friday, March 25-26, 2021. We welcome proposals for panels, individual papers, workshops, and alternative session formats that allow for audience participation and community engagement in a virtual format. We […]
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July 13, 2020
Texas A&M Announces Members And Charge Of Commission On Diversity, Equity And Inclusion
Actions to address racism among the campus community; review of statues, buildings and monuments.
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June 17, 2020
President Young Announces Task Force On Race Relations, Commission On Historic Representations
Actions to address racism among the campus community; review of statues, buildings and monuments.
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June 12, 2020
Unity Walk Draws Hundreds To The Texas A&M Campus
A Unity Walk led by Texas A&M University student athletes drew an estimated 350 or so attendees Thursday evening to the campus.
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June 1, 2020
A Message To Our Aggie Community
"The responsibility is ours to take meaningful action." Texas A&M President Michael K. Young
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April 16, 2020
First Hispanic Yell Leader Proud To Represent His Community
Memo Salinas, elected Junior Yell Leader 2020-21, said the many Aggies in his family inspired him to join the Corps and run for yell.
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April 2, 2020
Department of Multicultural Services Multicultural Graduation Ceremony April 15th
The Department of Multicultural Services Multicultural Graduation Ceremony will be held Wednesday, April 15, 2020. Students should visit the DMS website to register for the 2020 ceremony.
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March 31, 2020
APIDA Heritage Month at Texas A&M University
APIDA (Asian Pacific Islander Desi American) Heritage Month is celebrated in April at Texas A&M University to allow students the opportunity to engage in festivities and educational programs before the end of the semester.
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January 31, 2020
Black History Month Events at Texas A&M
Several on- and off- campus events will be held at Texas A&M University in observance of Black History Month this February, starting with a kick-off event Friday, Jan. 31.
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April 27, 2018
Development of A Racial Trauma Measure
On March 29th, the Race and Ethnic Studies Institute will be sponsoring a colloquium featuring Dr. Tony Brown, professor of Sociology at Rice University. His talk is entitled, “Development and Validation of a Racial Trauma Measure.”
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August 21, 2017
Fall 2017 Workshop on Race & Ethnicity
The Fall Workshop on Race and Ethnicity will be on October 24th from 9am to 3pm. The workshop aim is to develop quantitative researchers that will give more careful and keen consideration to how race and ethnicity fit in their statistical models.
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January 10, 2017
Data Analysis Exercises: A Recipe for Student Success! (And ICPSR Can Help)
Incorporating activities based on real social science data is one way to engage students with content, with the added benefit of boosting students’ quantitative skills. If the idea of creating such exercises makes you blanch, this workshop is for you!