CCSRE | United States

Date: Thursday, January 20, 2022. 4:30 PM. Location: Stanford Law School and on Zoom Registration required. This program will be presented both in-person at Stanford as well as on Zoom. Please indicate how you will attend the presentation on the registration form below. The establishment of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) at Stanford in 1996 ushered in what our presenter Professor Al Camarillo refers to as “Ethnic Studies 2.0.” As the founding director of CCSRE and one of the founding scholars of Mexican American history and Chicano studies, Professor Camarillo will tell a series of “origin stories” about the formation of CCSRE and the history of ethnic studies at Stanford and beyond. These origin stories are particularly important for understanding why the university is making plans to develop a new Institute for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Society and a Department of African and African American Studies. Note: If you attend the in-person program on campus, you must pro...