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Dance and the Hollywood Latina—Priscilla Peña Ovalle

Dance and the Hollywood Latina a new book by Priscilla Peña Ovalle UO assistant professor of film and media studies and a CSWS affiliate Now available from Rutgers University Press From the Rutgers University Press website: “Dance and the Hollywood…

Racial Propositions—Daniel HoSang

Racial Propositions: Ballot Initiatives and the Making of Postwar California a new book by Daniel Martinez HoSang Now available from University of California Press Daniel HoSang, University of Oregon assistant professor, Ethnic Studies Department and the Department of Political Science,…

Yvonne Braun Receives Enloe Award

Lesotho, a small, resource-poor country surrounded by the Republic of South Africa, is in the midst of one of the largest dam development projects in the world—and tens of thousands of Basotho people are being affected by it. University of…

Women’s Rights in a Global World: 2010-11 CSWS Series

CSWS Initiates the Lorwin Lectureship on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties with a Series of Lectures, Workshops and Symposia Focused on Women’s Rights Organized by the Center for the Study of Women in Society, the inaugural Lorwin Lectureship on Civil…

In Memoriam: Peggy Pascoe

Peggy Pascoe, whose research and teaching focused on the history of race, gender and sexuality, was the Beekman Professor of Northwest and Pacific History and professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon. With family and friends at her…

UO Anthropology Professor to Be Interviewed on The Jefferson Exchange

Cultural anthropologist Lamia Karim, author of Microfinance and Its Discontents: Women in Debt in Bangladesh (University of Minnesota Press, 2011), will be interviewed Tuesday, July 19, from 9–10 a.m. on The Jefferson Exchange <www.jeffersonexchange.org>—a live interview and listener call-in program…