Beyond Identity: Building Collective Struggles for Racial and Health Justice
Thursday, March 22nd 2018
6:00pm-7:30pm
Gifford Room (Kroeber Hall 221)
Department of Anthropology, UC Berkeley
*Space is wheelchair accessible*
Since the 2016 presidential elections, “identity politics” have been attacked by liberal and left commentators who fault its proponents with dividing civil society and social movements, while creating a backlash among white communities that brought Trump to power. Yet, extensive scholarship in the social science and public health fields has made it clear that race has been and continues to be a foundational force in structuring dramatically unequal social conditions and health outcomes. How should we interpret current critiques of identity politics in light of such racial inequalities? How can race-based politics be reconciled with broad demands for social transformation? What role should health practitioners play in challenging racial inequalities in our current moment? Please join us in discussing these and other urgent questions with the following panelists.
- George Lipsitz, Professor of Black Studies at UC Santa Barbara
- Rupa Marya, Associate Professor of Medicine and Faculty Director of the Do No Harm Coalition at UC San Francisco
- Carlos Martinez, PhD student in the UC Berkeley/UC San Francisco Joint Program in Medical Anthropology
This event is part of the “Social Medicine for Our Times” event series organized by BCSM and CNA/NNU.
Light refreshments will be served. Free and open to the public.
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Public parking is available at various lots on & near the UC Berkeley Campus, including at the Bancroft Parking structure, adjacent to Kroeber Hall (entrance on Bancroft St between Bowditch & College). Click here for more information.