Book Talk: "Transforming the Ivory Tower"
Event Date:
Friday, October 26, 2012 -
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Event Location:
CSRC Library - 144 Haines Hall
Despite greater numbers of women, working class people, and people of color—as well as increased visibility for LGBTQ students and staff—over the past fifty years, universities have remained “ivory towers” that perpetuate institutionalized forms of sexism, classism, racism, and homophobia. Transforming the Ivory Tower (University of Hawai'i Press, 2012) builds on the rich legacy of historical struggles to open universities to dissenting voices and oppressed groups. Each chapter is guided by a commitment to praxis—the idea that theoretical understandings of inequality must be applied to concrete strategies for change.
Speakers:
Mary Yu Danico, Professor of Sociology at California Polytechnic State University and co-editor of Transforming the Ivory Tower
Anthony Ocampo, Assistant Professor of Sociology at California Polytechnic State University and UCLA alum
This event is co-sponsored by the UCLA Department of Sociology Race/Ethnicity Working Group and the CSRC.