Fall ETHNIC STUDIES 2012 U N I V E R S I T Y O F O R E G O N

Faculty Win Lambda Literary Award Department Notes “Being a finalist for the Lambda Literary award for LGBT anthology was a tremendous honor...(we) did not My first year as the have any expectation we would win.” Department Head of Ethnic Studies was an incredible –Michael Hames-García experience; here are just a Ernesto Javier Martínez and its way onto bookshelves around few highlights: Of all of our Michael Hames-García—both the world.” accomplishments, the most professors in the Department of exciting was the promotion Ethnic Studies—were awarded Previous winners of the to Associate Professor with the prestigious national Lambda Lambda Award include fiction tenure of Professors Daniel Literary Award in the category writers Michael Cunningham, HoSang and Ernesto Martinez. of “best LGBT anthology” for Jeanette Winterson, and Armistead Both of these scholars are their co-edited book Gay Latino Maupin; noted historians award winning authors and are Studies: A Critical Reader (Duke Alan Berube, and Lillian recognized as stellar teachers; Press, 2011). Faderman; poets Adrienne Rich their colleagues across their and Mark Doty; and playwright unit affiliations praise and This award was announced Tony Kushner. appreciate all that they in early June at a sold-out gala contribute to the intellectual ceremony in New York City. The Editors hope that the communities they inhabit. The event attracted over 400 award will enable the book My excitement over their attendees, sponsors, and to find a broader and more accomplishments cannot be celebrities to celebrate excellence diverse audience. overstated! in LGBT literature. Last year, we also Both editors were present at the inaugurated our first Peggy ceremony thanks to the generosity Pascoe Memorial Lecture with of Andrew Marcus, Associate Professor David Gutiérrez of Dean of the Social Sciences. the University of California, San Diego. A long time friend The book has received high and colleague of Peggy Pascoe, praise. Ramón Saldívar, Professor Gutiérrez spoke about the of English at Stanford University, politics of immigration and writes “This collection will be citizenship in his lecture, an indispensable reference for “Scylla, Charybdis, and ‘Path any scholar working in queer or to Citizenship’: Reflections Latina/o studies. With its broad on the History of Citizenship disciplinary and theoretical scope, Controversy.” It was a moving it effectively establishes the field event that gave us a collective of gay Latino studies.” moment to remember our dear friend Professor Peggy Pascoe, Judith Halberstam, Professor who was such an ardent of English at the University of supporter of Ethnic Studies. Southern California, writes that Thanks to the Department of the book “reads like a sparkling History for their noted support conversation full of wit, insight, and co-sponsorship of this cultural relevance, and political (continued on page 7) critique … [it] will quickly find Hames-García & Martínez in NYC New Faculty Profile

ES Alumna & Documentary Director on 2012/13 Faculty Dr. Chris Finley received her and disrupts mainstream Ph.D. in American Culture from constructions that have relegated the University of Michigan. She is Native peoples to the historic the co-editor of Queer Indigenous past. According to Finley, “Often Studies: Critical Interventions in these “Indian” characters have Theory, Politics and Literature little to do with the politics and (University of Arizona Press, lives of Native peoples living in 2011), and the author of several the present. I found that watching articles. Her arrival here is these often one-dimensional particularly special since she characters with no political or graduated Summa Cum Laude social consciousness did not and Phi Beta Kappa from Ethnic match myself or any other Native Studies at the University of Oregon people that I knew and does not in 2005. She was a remarkable challenge settler colonialism.” student then, and now returns as Dr. Finley’s dissertation our fulltime visiting instructor. is a much-needed critical Dr. Finley’s dissertation examination that will contribute “Decolonizing Sexualized Images to the expanding field of feminist of Native Peoples: Bringing indigenous and sexuality studies. ‘Sexy Back’ to Native Studies” is Being a University of Oregon about representations of Native alum, and having grown up in peoples in popular culture in the Pacific Northwest, Chris the United States mainstream. Finley is thrilled to be back home: She uses a sex positive, queer, “Returning to the University and Indigenous framework to Dr. Christine Finley of Oregon to teach in the same closely read representations role heteropatriarchy plays department where I decided to and dominant narratives of in the maintenance of settler be a professor is truly amazing!” Pocahontas, Sacajawea, and other colonialism, and how Native She will be teaching Introduction Native peoples in films, novels, peoples have internalized these to Ethnic Studies, Introduction photographs, coins, and theatre. often negative representations to Native American Studies, Dr. Finley disrupts ideas in mainstream culture of Native Queer Indigenous Theory, and of universalism that surround identity. Recognizing that most Native Americans in Film. We Native peoples, and examines non-Native people “know” are all thrilled to have her join us how these representations expose Native peoples through “Indian” this year. the ongoing violence of conquest characters they see in popular and that the genocide of Native culture, Finley intervenes (continued on page 3) peoples should not be read as “universal.” She engages in a Congratulations to sex positive queer Indigenous reading of popular culture to Deneen Elizabeth & Jessica Rojas examine the positive and the negative aspects of sexualized Recipients of the 2013 images of Native peoples instead Marian Ballew Thomas Memorial Scholarship of ignoring sexuality as a logic of in recognition of their engagement in community service and the settler colonialism. further development of their social awareness and analytical skills. Her project was motivated by her love of film and media, and All ES majors and minors are eligible for this award. Please check a desire to critique the important our website for more information: ethnic.uoregon.edu.

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Dr. Irum Shiekh received her enthusiasm for teaching and Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies at the collaboration in the areas of University of California Berkeley. social justice, immigrant rights, Her book, Detained Without Cause: race and detentions/deportations, Muslims’ Stories of Detention and and gender and popular culture. Deportation in America After She is looking forward to 9/11 (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2011), inspiring students to participate was based on her dissertation in the development of alternative research of oral histories of and independent documentary/ Muslim detainees in jails where filmmaking projects that are they were held indefinitely and rooted in social justice. without cause. She joins us this year for Professor Irum Shiekh From January 2010 to Summer the Fall and Winter quarters as 2011, she worked as a Fulbright of her films contribute to media our visiting adjunct instructor. Scholar at Birzeit University in justice projects that expose issues She will be teaching Race and Palestine where she taught courses of injustice in hopes to educate Media, Forced Detentions/Forced about Hollywood films and and make social change. Her Removals, Race & Post 9/11, and American cultures and learned films include Amna, Hijab (Veil) South Asian Diasporas. Spring 2007; about Palestinian films and their for a Day, Hidden Dr. Shiekh’s newest contributions to Palestinian Internment: The Art Shibayama documentary was the first Works- Fall 2004; cultural life through the Story, On Strike, Ethnic in-Progress project of the year. Fall 1999; articulation of multiple histories Studies: 1969-1999, The event was held on Friday, and the day-to-day perspectives Hijab: An Expression of My Soul, November 2, from 11:00am- Fall 1998. of Palestinians living in the 1:00pm in the Alder Conference homeland and in the diaspora. Dr. Shiekh grew up in the small Room. We are delighted to have Specifically, she explored its town of Sialkot, Pakistan, and her join us. significance as a contemporary in 1983, moved to a suburban sociopolitical movement which provides a counter-narrative through artistic expressions. “[Dr. Shiekh] will be Since the completion of the book, she has been advancing her teaching South Asian research by examining the location of secret prisons throughout Diasporas...and the world and in Pakistan in particular, where individuals are detained without any due process. Race & Post 9/11.” Her research aims to examine the role of US imperial policies in the 21st century in which governments neighborhood in South San in the Middle East, South Asia Francisco with her family. She and Europe prioritize US national completed her B.A. in Geography security interests over their own from San Francisco State and trade the bodies of their University in 1987 and later went citizens in exchange for material on to San Jose State University to support and/or perceived political complete her Master’s in Urban and economic benefits. Planning. She joined the Berkeley graduate program in Ethnic In addition to her fieldwork and Studies after working several publication endeavors, Professor years as a City Planner for the city Shiekh makes documentary films. of San Jose. Dr. Shiekh sees documentary film making as a way to tell a story An experienced educator, Dr. Detained without Cause is available from visually and artistically. Many Shiekh brings to the UO great Palgrave/Macmillian.

Ethnic Studies, Fall 2012 3 Faculty Updates

Charise Cheney is currently Irmary Reyes–Santos enjoyed writing a manuscript entitled teaching Introduction to Ethnic Blacks against Brown: The Black Studies, Introduction to African Anti-Integration Movement in American Studies, and the Topeka, Kansas, 1941-1954. This advanced seminar Race, Culture, book explores black political Empire during the 2011/2012 resistance to the NAACP’s efforts academic year. She will soon see to desegregate Topeka’s public her article “On Pan-Antillean schools. While much has been Politics: Betances and Luperón written about the impact of Brown Speak to the Present” published v. Board of Education, too little at Callaloo, A Journal of African is known about the local cases of American Historians and Diaspora Arts and Letters. behind the landmark decision. Honorable Mention for the John This summer, in collaboration Hope Franklin Award of the with Scholars at City College of American Studies Association. A new edited volume, Racial Formation in the Twenty-First Century, co-edited by HoSang, Laura Pulido (University of Southern California), and Oneka LaBennett (Fordham University), has just been published by University of California Press. The collection of 14 essays engaging racial formation theory developed In Topeka, many black out of a conference held at the UO residents were concerned that in 2009. New York and the Dominican destroying all-black schools Republic, she is undertaking a would undermine the quality of telephone survey of Dominican black education. Their activism migrants in New York, Florida, reveals a lack of consensus among and Puerto Rico. It will be the first blacks over the desirability of comparative study of Dominican integrated educational spaces. migrants in these locations. By focusing on Topeka during Prof. Reyes-Santos’ research the 1940s and early 1950s, has been supported by various Cheney’s work seeks to explore the entities. Her book project titled complexities and range of black Our Caribbean Kin: Race and political desires and movements in Gender in the Neoliberal Antilles the pre-Civil Rights era. An article has been supported by a Future Cheney wrote on this topic for of Minority Studies Postdoctoral the Western Historical Quarterly Fellowship (Fall 2009), a CSWS won the Western Association of Research Fellowship (Fall 2010), Women Historians’ Judith Lee and the Oregon Humanities Center Ridge Prize in June of this year. Fellowship (Winter 2011). All these intellectual communities Dan Martinez HoSang have greatly enriched the writing has presented talks for Racial and research process. Propositions: Ballot Initiatives and During the 2010 Summer, the Making of Postwar California at she was invited to be a Research UC Berkeley, Michigan, UC Santa Fellow at Dominican Studies Barbara, Pitzer, and the University Institute at City College, New of Washington. The book received the 2011 James Rawley HoSang’s book is available at UC Press. Prize from the Organization (continued on page 5)

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York. That project has become The project explores what Professor Klopotek will a pilot survey of Dominican constitutes indigeneity and return to the UO for the 2012- migrants inside and outside New indigenous peoplehood, focusing 2013 academic year. on the US-Mexico border and Lynn Fujiwara is the Chair the ways it divides people of of the Section on Asia and Indian heritage from the US and Asian America of the American Mexico into different categories. Sociological Association. She Using a 1998 petition for federal will be overseeing the section acknowledgment and the meetings at next year’s American response to it from the Bureau Sociological Association in New of Indian Affairs as a lens, the York City. She is also continuing to project examines a confused and contradictory heritage of racial, colonial, national, and ethnical thinking from the US, Mexico, and York City. Prof. Reyes-Santos will indigenous peoples themselves return to the UO next year. that tangles the Choctaw-Apache Tribe of Louisiana in a mass of Brian Klopotek has been overlapping boundary lines. awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities year-long The work takes a comparative, residential fellowship at the hemispheric approach that Huntington Library in the Los examines conversations about race Angeles area. In February, he gave and indigeneity among groups who a guest lecture in a class at Oregon have developed widely divergent State University taught by 2005 ideas about what constitutes these make progress on her two primary ES alumna Angie Morrill, who categories historically, building research projects, Queering Asian was a Visiting Assistant Professor bridges across the US-Mexico American Feminisms: Sexual of Ethnic Studies there. border in different times and Politics of Representation and places from a Native American Resistance, and Family Citizenship Professor Klopotek has begun and ethnic studies perspective as and the Politics of Removal: The his research project, Indian on it challenges some deeply held Implications of Deportations in Both Sides: Indigenous Identities, beliefs about racial, cultural, and Post 9/11. Race, and National Borders, indigenous identities. and will continue that research at Huntington.

Ethnic Studies Department Welcomes Graduate Teaching Fellows Every year Ethnic Studies hires units, are establishing an in- outstanding graduate students house writing specialist to assist from across campus to lead students specifically with writing Marnie Atkins, Anthropology discussion sections in Introduction papers. We hope that this added to Ethnic Studies (ES 101), and to support will greatly enhance the Lisa Beard, Political Science grade in our 200 series courses, educational process. Introduction to Native American Cindy Nguyen, Sociology Studies, African American Studies, MeCherri Tarver, returning Chican@/Latin@ Studies, and Asian for her third year as an ES GTF, Nadia Raza, Education American Studies. explains what brings her back: “For me being in this department has felt MeCherri Tarver, Sociology In addition, Ethnic Studies and more like my home ... the faculty Women’s and Gender Studies are and staff have been very supportive Returning launching a pilot program made of my educational endeavors, but possible by the College of Arts and more importantly, they genuinely Michael Tran, Sociology Sciences. Recognizing the writing care for my physical, mental, and Writing Specialist challenges many students face, emotional health.” ES and WGS, as interdisciplinary

Ethnic Studies, Fall 2012 5 Pascoe Memorial Lecture

Dr. Estelle Freedman Selected for Pascoe Lecturer This year’s 2nd annual Peggy Peggy Pascoe was a true Estelle Freedman is the Edgar Pascoe Memorial Lecture will treasure to the University of E. Robinson Professor in U.S. take place January of 2013. We Oregon, and her dedication to History at Stanford University. are fortunate to have Dr. Estelle see a thriving and stable Ethnic Her research interests include Freedman of Stanford University Studies Department led to her the history of women and social who will be speaking about her abundant and selfless mentorship reform, including feminism and forthcoming book, Redefining to all faculty who have ever been a prison reform, as well as the Rape. Her book brings together member of the department. history of sexuality. She was racial justice and women’s rights Peggy Pascoe’s dissertation chair, responses to sexual violence in To honor Peggy’s dedication to and longtime friend. the late nineteenth and early graduate student education, we twentieth centuries. have added a graduate student The lecture will take place in workshop where a selected student the Knight Library Browsing room Peggy Pascoe was the Beekman who is doing intersectional work on Jan. 25th. The reception starts Professor of Northwest and in Ethnic Studies will receive at noon and the lecture will begin Pacific History and Professor of feedback from Dr. Freedman. The at 12:30pm. The event is free and Ethnic Studies. She was one of seminar will be open to graduate alumni are welcome to attend. the most influential historians of students whose work engages her generation, authoring ground- Ethnic Studies scholarship. breaking histories of the American West that centered on the intersections of race, gender and sexuality. Her book What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and Senior Paper Topics the Making of Race in America The Research of Disproportionate Punishments (Oxford University Press, 2009) Given to Athletes Relating to Crime received five prestigious awards. Enrique C. Armendariz

Race and Protest Music as a Vehicle for Resistance Joseph Beig

Gangs and Gang Violence in Eugene Cynthia Calletano-Villanueva

Native American Influence in Camp Fire Practices Katie Eglin

Accomodation and Control: A Look at the African American Student-Athlete Experience at the University of Oregon Kendaris Hill

No Shades of Grey: Literary Analysis of Rachial Pawsing and the Psychological Consequences in Jessie Fauset’s Plum Bun and Danzy Senna’s Caucasia Lindsey Holman

Transracial Adoption and the Preservation of Culture Professor Peggy Pascoe Rebecca Jo Jenness

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(continued from page 1) important event. This year, we are Ethnic Studies. Last year’s efforts In order to support ES and very fortunate to have Professor culminated in a symposium with ES affiliate faculty, we also Estelle Freedman of Stanford Graduate Director Dr. Nikhil conducted two works-in-progress University (another lifelong friend Singh (American Studies) at New workshops. The first, Charise and colleague of Peggy Pascoe) York University. Ethnic Studies Cheney’s book chapter “Through to highlight our second annual and affiliated faculty from across Education We Rise: Racial Uplift Pascoe Memorial Lecture. campus engaged in an extensive Ideologies and Practices in conversation that proved that a Topeka’s All-Black Schools,” was With the assistance of the graduate program focusing on responded to by Edward Olivos College of Arts and Sciences race, gender, and sexuality is and Brian Klopotek. In the Spring, and the Graduate School, we severely needed and desired at Loren Kajikawa’s “Rebel Without embarked on our endeavors our campus. We hope to continue a Pause: Sonic Shifts in Rap’s to research the possibilities of with these efforts to see this First Decade” was responded to developing a graduate program in process to fruition. by Larry Wayte and Joe Lowndes. The works-in-progress series is a great way to collaborate and Senior Paper Topics develop a community of scholars. Women in Prison: If you have a piece that you are The Case of African American Women, and Their Contribution working on, please let me know. to the Fastest Growing Prison Population Michelle Lewis We ended the ‘12 academic year with a wonderful gathering Migrant Labor and its Relevance to Present-Day Slavery of ES faculty and undergraduate Yareli Montano students. Over pizza, we discussed some of the highlights of the ES Marriage Between United States Soldiers and Japanese Women major, and students got to know During World War II and the Korean War more about their faculty members and the United States’ Reaction outside of the classroom setting. Brittany Montes Graduating ES majors talked about their senior papers, and Vanport the gathering generated so much Tiffany Morris conversation that we decided to make it a yearly event. Black Students’ Experiences in Higher Education at the University of Oregon We have much to look forward and Historically Black Colleges and Universities to in the coming year. We have Ebony Oldham two visiting scholars joining our teaching faculty (pages 2 & 3), Sexual Exploitation and Sex Work a new line up of courses to offer Heidi Siebenlist and the Peggy Pascoe Memorial Lecture. Ethnic Studies faculty Policy Incorporation at the Univerisity of Oregon: have been working very closely Diversity Efficacy and Whiteness with the ASUO Multicultural Peter Truong Center in a student organized conference, “Social Justice/Real Exploration of Spirituality in Caribbean Literature Justice” to be held in February and Spirituality as Motivations for Race Relations 2013. I’m greatly looking forward Annie Valentine to meeting and connecting with more folks interested in Ethnic Controversies and Solutions: United States History Textbooks Studies at the University of Ana Wehr Oregon, so please don’t hesitate to contact me.

Ethnic Studies, Fall 2012 7 Commencement

Congratulations Ethnic Studies Majors and Minors Enrique C. Armendariz, Rachael A. Bowen, Cynthia L. Calletano-Villanueva, Eric J. Cole, Matthew W. Dillender, Kathryn R. Eglin, Tara V. Harvey, Kendaris L. Hill, Lindsay R. Holman, Rebecca J. Jenness, Michelle N. Lewis, Ana Y. Montaño Ramirez, Brittany A. Montes, Tiffany J. Morris, Adaora U. Nkwonta, Ebony R. Oldham, Heidi L. Siebenlist, Zachary M. Stephenson, Peter K. Truong, Anne N. Valentine, Anna R. Wehr, Alexis A. White, Meredith M. Y. F. Wood

Students Honored for Great Academic Accomplishments The Department of Ethnic Studies is proud to bestow Departmental Honors on the following graduates: Graduated Fall 2011: Eric Cole, summa cum laude, also received honors in Political Science Graduated Winter 2012: Anna Nakano-Baker, magna cum laude, also received honors in Spanish Graduated Spring 2012: Lindsay Holman, cum laude, inducted Phi Beta Kappa; Peter Truong, inducted Phi Beta Kappa; Anne N. Valentine; Anna Rose Wehr; Meredith Wood, inducted Phi Beta Kappa

8 Ethnic Studies, Fall 2012 Commencement Ethnic Studies Newsletter “Miss Lyllye” Parker Commences The Ethnic Studies Newsletter is published by the Life without UO Ethnic Studies Department University of Oregon his year, Ms. Lyllye Parker, gave a heartfelt keynote T 104 Alder Building address inspiring students to stay committed to themselves, 5268 University of Oregon their families, and their communities. Parker retired after Eugene, OR 97403-5268 17 years of committed and dedicated service as an advisor Contact Information office (541) 346-0900 in the Office of Multicultural Academic Success. Parker fax (541) 346-0904 cared deeply for students, often going far beyond the call of [email protected] Lynn Fujiwara duty. “Miss Lyllye” as many students came to call her, was Department Head (541) 346-0900 more than an advisor, “she was someone we could go to for [email protected] everything, and she was always there for us.” Charise Cheney Associate Professor Parker has not only taken care of thousands of students, (541) 346-0870 [email protected] she’s been a caretaker of folks across campus and the Christine Finley entire community. Visiting Instructor (541) 346-0903 At commencement, [email protected] she was presented Michael Hames-García Professor with the Ethnic (541) 346-0905 [email protected] Studies Award of on leave Winter/Spring of 2013 Appreciation for her Daniel Martinez HoSang Associate Professor oustanding service to (541) 346-0931 our students and the [email protected] Brian Klopotek campus community. Associate Professor She will be missed on leave AY ‘13 Ernesto Martínez deeply, and her Associate Professor absence on our on leave Fall/Winter of AY ‘13 campus will be felt Irmary Reyes-Santos Assistant Professor throughout. We wish Department Head Lynn Fujiwara on leave AY ‘13 presents Lyllye Parker with the Ethnic for her much deserved Irum Shiekh Studies Award of Appreciation. Adjunct Instructor quality time with her (541) 346-0928 [email protected] family, and joy in her future endeavors. Newsletter Staff/Contributors Donella-Elizabeth Alston, Jessi Cotter, Lynn Fujiwara, Shauna Walker upport thnic tudies Photography S E S ! Oscar Palmquist Visit us on line to see how you can empower the Original Design by Ethnic Studies Department to better serve our students Rainsong Design and the greater campus community! Edited by Donella-Elizabeth Alston http://ethnic.uoregon.edu/support Lynn Fujiwara

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Alston Honored with Martin Luther King, Jr. Award Ethnic Studies’ own Donella- Elizabeth Alston, Budget and Office Manager, was awarded the 2012 Martin Luther King, Jr. Award. Each year exemplary members of the UO community are recognized for their efforts and achievements that uphold and exemplify the ideals set forth by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Many positive comments were made in support of her nomination. As one person expressed: “Donella’s thoughtful worldliness allows her to reach people where they are at, and to provide focused, unwavering support to people who are in need. [She] has made Ethnic Studies the critical unit recognized on campus as a safe space and a Donella-Elizabeth Alston (center) receives Martin Luther King, Jr. Award from Interim thriving multicultural community.” President Robert Berdahl (left) and Vice President Robin Holmes (right) “Beyond her required duties, she . has been a mentor in the truest sense (Robin Holmes, Vice President of with the UO community, were of the word, in substance, rather Equity and Inclusion, 2012). thrilled to see her receive this much than mere form. She inspires hope, deserved award. Congratulations, compassion and critical thinking On Thursday, January 19th, many Donella-Elizabeth! translated into much needed action” of the Ethnic Studies faculty, along