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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear SOE Graduate Students,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please find the upcoming events and opportunities offered at UCR described below and in the attached flyers.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">-Heather<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="xmsonormal" align="center" style="margin:0in;text-align:center"><b>Raúl Pérez, PhD, <i>The Souls of White Jokes: How Racist Humor Fuels White Supremacy</i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" align="center" style="margin:0in;text-align:center">Thursday, October 27, 2022, 1230-2pm<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" align="center" style="margin:0in;text-align:center">In person: INTS 1113 CHASS Interdisciplinary Symposium Room<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="xmsonormal" align="center" style="margin:0in;text-align:center">Via Zoom (Must be signed in to UCR Zoom): <a href="https://ucr.zoom.us/j/98896703068?pwd=TktEbkR1TU1DcXJFNndCNEVhKzVpdz09" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://ucr.zoom.us/j/98896703068?pwd=TktEbkR1TU1DcXJFNndCNEVhKzVpdz09</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>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 <i>The Souls
of White Jokes, </i>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. <b>Book Link:</b> <a href="https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=30308" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=30308</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Rauìl Peìrez 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 <i>American
Behavioral Scientist, Discourse and Society, Ethnicities, </i>and<i> Sociological Perspectives</i>. His first book, <i>The Souls of White Joke: How Racist Humor Fuels White Supremacy</i> has been recently published by Stanford University Press. His work has
also been featured in various media, including <i>The Washington Post</i>, <i>TIME, NBC, AXIOS, The Grio, Remezcla, Latino Rebels, and Zócalo Public Square. </i><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Upcoming events and Opportunities from GradSuccess<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">The attached flyers include:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Upcoming <a href="https://gradquant.ucr.edu/programs/workshops/fall-2022" title="https://gradquant.ucr.edu/programs/workshops/fall-2022">
GradQuant Workshops</a>: Data Visualization in R (Oct. 11 and 18<sup>th</sup> at 1pm on Zoom) and Introduction to Python (Oct. 20 and 27<sup>th</sup> at 3pm on Zoom)<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
Upcoming TA Development Program <a href="https://tadp.ucr.edu/resources/workshops" title="https://tadp.ucr.edu/resources/workshops">
workshop</a>: Fair and Fast Grading (Oct. 12at at 10am on Zoom)<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
GSA DIAL/CARE workshop on Building Healthy Relationships as a Graduate Student (Oct. 20<sup>th</sup> at 12pm in HUB 379)<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
Chicano Student Programs is offering a Grad Writing Series on Thursdays through Dec. 1<sup>st</sup> (10:30am-1pm in HUB 268)<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<b>Application information is now available for the <a href="https://gsrc.ucr.edu/liebmann-fellowship" title="https://gsrc.ucr.edu/liebmann-fellowship">
Liebmann</a> Fund's need-based graduate fellowship (applications due Dec. 1st)<o:p></o:p></b></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
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<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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