Urban Studies Research Cluster

Miriam Jiménez Román and Juan Flores: “The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in the U.S.”

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The Urban Studies Research Cluster presents:

Discussion with Miriam Jiménez Román & Juan Flores: The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History & Culture in the U.S.

For much of the past 500 years, Afro-Latinas/os have had to negotiate multi-dimensional expectations of shifting dominant ideologies and the realities of their everyday experiences. As Latinos and African Americans have been pitted against each other in a race for demographic supremacy, Afro-Latinas/os have emerged as a significant bridge across the social divide. Professors Román and Flores discuss their co-edited book, The Afro-Latin@ Reader (Duke, 2010).

Readings will be available at: www.wuala.com/Urban%20Studies%20Research%20Cluster

For more information, contact Miriam Greenberg at miriam@ucsc.edu.

Co-sponsored by the departments of Sociology, Latin American and Latina/o Studies, and American Studies.

Juan Flores

Juan Flores: “The Diaspora Strikes Back: Caribeño Tales of Learning and Turning”

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The Urban Studies Research Cluster presents:

Lecture/Seminar with Juan Flores: The Diaspora Strikes Back: Caribeño Tales of Learning and Turning

Professor Flores looks at how ‘Nuyoricans’ have transformed their cities of origin, focusing on the introduction of hip hop and modern New York culture to the Puerto Rican city of Mayaguez in The Diaspora Strikes Back (Routledge, 2009).

Readings will be available at: www.wuala.com/Urban%20Studies%20Research%20Cluster

For more information, contact Miriam Greenberg at miriam@ucsc.edu.

Co-sponsored by the departments of Sociology, Latin American and Latina/o Studies, and American Studies.

Ananya Roy

Ananya Roy – “Slumdog Cities: The Politics of Subaltern Urbanism”

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The Urban Studies Research Cluster presents:

Ananya Roy – “Slumdog Cities: The Politics of Subaltern Urbanism”

The study of megacities in the global South has come to be dominated by two contrasting paradigms: an apocalyptic vision of a “planet of slums” and a populist vision of entrepreneurial “shadow cities.” This talk will critically examine such paradigms, calling into question the ways in which “subaltern urbanism” is currently framed. Drawing on postcolonial theory, it will present an alternative framework for the understanding of urbanism in the global South and make the case for new geographies of theory.

Bio: Ananya Roy is a leading scholar in comparative urban studies and international development. She is Professor of City and Regional Planning at U.C. Berkeley, and also serves as Education Director of the Blum Center for Developing Economies and as co-Director of the Global Metropolitan Studies Center at Berkeley. Roy is author of numerous books, including: City Requiem, Calcutta: Gender and the Politics of Poverty (2003), co-editor of Urban Informality: Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, South Asia, and Latin America (2004), and co-editor (with Aihwa Ong) of the forthcoming Worlding Cities: Asian Experiments and the Art of Being Global.

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Seminar co-sponsored by the Departments of Sociology, Feminist Studies, and Colleges 9 & 10.