[Gradstudents] Upcoming events and opportunities

Tue Oct 11 09:04:00 PDT 2022

Dear SOE Graduate Students,

Please find the upcoming events and opportunities offered at UCR described below and in the attached flyers.

-Heather

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Raúl Pérez, PhD, The Souls of White Jokes: How Racist Humor Fuels White Supremacy

Thursday, October 27, 2022, 1230-2pm

In person: INTS 1113 CHASS Interdisciplinary Symposium Room

Via Zoom (Must be signed in to UCR Zoom): https://ucr.zoom.us/j/98896703068?pwd=TktEbkR1TU1DcXJFNndCNEVhKzVpdz09

Having a "good" sense of humor generally means being able to take a joke without getting offended. Laughter is often seen as a way to ease tension in an overly politicized social world. But do the stakes change when the jokes are racist? In The Souls of White Jokes, Raúl Pérez confronts this unsettling question, arguing that doing so is crucial to understanding the persistence of racism and white supremacy in American society. Drawing from W.E.B. Du Bois's prescient essay “The Souls of White Folk” (1920), Pérez synthesizes scholarship on race, humor, and emotions to uncover how humor can function as a tool for producing racial alienation, dehumanization, and even violence. Pérez tracks this use of humor from blackface minstrelsy to contemporary contexts, including police culture, politics, and far-right extremists. Rather than being harmless fun, a thing of the past, or “just a joke,” Pérez illustrates how the current widespread use of racist humor plays a central role in reinforcing and mobilizing racist ideology, solidarity, and inequality today. Book Link: https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=30308

Raúl Pérez is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of La Verne, and previously an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Denver. His scholarship has been awarded and supported by the American Sociological Association, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the University of California Center for New Racial Studies, the Working Class Studies Association, and the American Humor Studies Association. His research has been published in journals such as American Behavioral Scientist, Discourse and Society, Ethnicities, and Sociological Perspectives. His first book, The Souls of White Joke: How Racist Humor Fuels White Supremacy has been recently published by Stanford University Press. His work has also been featured in various media, including The Washington Post, TIME, NBC, AXIOS, The Grio, Remezcla, Latino Rebels, and Zócalo Public Square.

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Upcoming events and Opportunities from GradSuccess

The attached flyers include:

  *   Upcoming GradQuant Workshops<https://gradquant.ucr.edu/programs/workshops/fall-2022>: Data Visualization in R (Oct. 11 and 18th at 1pm on Zoom) and Introduction to Python (Oct. 20 and 27th at 3pm on Zoom)
  *   Upcoming TA Development Program workshop<https://tadp.ucr.edu/resources/workshops>: Fair and Fast Grading (Oct. 12at at 10am on Zoom)
  *   GSA DIAL/CARE workshop on Building Healthy Relationships as a Graduate Student (Oct. 20th at 12pm in HUB 379)
  *   Chicano Student Programs is offering a Grad Writing Series on Thursdays through Dec. 1st (10:30am-1pm in HUB 268)
  *   Application information is now available for the Liebmann<https://gsrc.ucr.edu/liebmann-fellowship> Fund's need-based graduate fellowship (applications due Dec. 1st)
  *   UCI grad student is seeking Latinx students who applied to a social science/STEM doctoral program in Fall 2021 for surveys/interviews as part of her doctoral research
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