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New Grant from NEH for AARC

April 16, 2024

The Asian American Research Center has received a grant of $150,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a new project: Community Archival Resilience and Engagement (CARE): Voices of Asian American Elders in the San Francisco Bay Area. The project, funded as part of NEH's Cultural and Community Resilience Program, is a collaboration with two community organizations, Bayanihan Equity Center and Lao Seri Association. The project, led by AARC faculty...

https://www.neh.gov/news/neh-announces-338-million-260-humanities-projects-natio…

Precarity and the Predatory Inclusion of Black Women

April 1, 2024

A new article by Caleb Dawson, ISSI Researcher, has been published in Critical Sociology about the predatory inclusion of Black women by for-profit colleges. Dawson draws on Black feminist Marxism to suggest that predatory inclusion depends on precarity as defined as a structural position of vulnerability to violence based on excess responsibilities and the denial of means to meet them.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08969205231223164

Understanding K-12 Education Experts and Elites

March 11, 2024

Eos Trinidad, faculty affiliate of the Center for Research on Social Change, has published a new article, “Interviewing K-12 education experts and elites,” in the journal Frontiers in Education. Trinidad discusses the importance of better understanding the influence experts have on education as a way to contextualize public skepticism...

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feduc.2024.1286151/full
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