Title: "Shades of Attica: Criminal Sentencing Reform and the Illinois Prison Movement at the Dawn of Mass Incarceration". Presented by the Workshop on Crime and Punishment.
Join us for a conversation with workers directly affected by the TPS repeal:
• Martha Bonilla, UNITE HERE Local 26 • Doris Reina-Landaverde, 32BJ SEIU • Julio Perez, Comité TPS Massachusetts
Excerpt from a letter delieved to President Drew Faust on February 1, 2018. The letter was signed by a coalition workers, faculty, undergraduate, and graduate students across the university:
The Department of Homeland Security announced between November 6, 2017 and January 8, 2018...
Three-time Grammy Award-winning pianist, composer, educator, and founder and Artistic Director of the Afro Latin Jazz Alliance, Arturo O’Farrill will be visiting the Harvard campus in late February. A musician of deep social conscience, all of Arturo’s music is written with someone, something, or some community, in mind. A ferocious collaborator of musicians of many styles, as well as the dance idiom, Arturo’s latest project is entitled “Little Tiny Walls” and will feature musicians from Mexican folkloric styles, Afro-Latin jazz, and the classical idiom, collaborating and playing...
Dr. Chavez examines public discourse surrounding children of immigrants, DACA and so-called "anchor babies," exploring how media coverage justifies exclusionary public policies and attempts to redefine the meaning of citizenship. Efforts to repeal or change the 14th Amendment would remove birthright citizenship for children born to undocumented immigrants, creating the unintended consequences of rendering this new category of U.S. born/non-citizens a possible caste in American society with increased vulnerability as "inside/outsiders" whose residence would not be subject to...
Kick-off event of the Latinx Poetry Series at Harvard in Celebration of AfroLatinx History, organized by Warren Center postdoctoral fellow Melissa Castillo-Garsow. Sponsored by the Warren Center, Ethnicity, Migration & Rights, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, History & Literature, Observatorio, and Instituto Cervantes.