nineteen sixty nine ("NSN") is the official student journal of the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. It is published electronically once per academic year, and is available through the University of California's eScholarship open access e-publishing initiative and the California Digital Library.
The journal's name refers to the year in which Ethnic Studies was established at UC Berkeley as a direct result of student activism through the Third World Liberation Front. Thus, nineteen sixty nine simultaneously reminds us of our origins and gestures towards the critical possibilities of Ethnic Studies for the present and the future.
Corresponding with the grassroots origins of Ethnic Studies, the idea for starting an Ethnic Studies student journal was first conceived during various feedback sessions held between students and the Department of Ethnic Studies during the 2009-2010 academic year. Due to student interest, the Department appointed a graduate student to head this initiative in 2010 and the journal was officially launched in 2011.
As such, the journal is managed and edited by both undergraduate majors and graduate students in the Ethnic Studies program at UC Berkeley with minimal direction from the Department and faculty. All submissions to the journal will be reviewed by a committee comprised of both undergraduate and graduate students in Ethnic Studies (and its affiliated programs), as well as our faculty consultants.
Felipe Baeza
My art practice is informed by reverse ethnography, explores themes from my own personal biography, and is explicitly political. It utilizes my personal experience as a lens onto the persistent effects of social institutions and cultural practices on the individual. Immigration, AIDS, and queer identity are at the forefront of my work. Through my practice, I aim not only able to reclaim my personal narrative, but to creatively reconstruct history. I do this through the reassembly of imagery: colonial propaganda, indigenous codexes, consumer print media. Additionally, I create new iconography presenting alternative and relevant understandings of colonialism, culture, and sex.Using printmaking I recreated religious imagery, mimicking the same process of documentation through printmaking originally used by the Catholic Church to disseminate their religious ideas. Using these same tools, my work proposed a critique of religious institutions and social control. I highlighted the condemned and the excluded by drawing together homosexuality and PreColumbian artifacts in a hybrid form. These objects and images are clearly personal, but they also speak to broader issues that are relevant today. Belonging to a population that is often excluded and condemned, printmaking became a response to the exclusionary history books, religious propaganda populating my upbringing.
Current Issue, Volume 3, Issue 1, 2016
Across Difference
For the past 45 years, Ethnic Studies has challenged tenets of the social sciences and humanities, while staking a claim for critical race and gender studies. Toward that end, this year’s theme for NSN is “Across Difference,” a motif commemorating over four decades of Ethnic Studies scholarship. “Across Difference” is a practice drawn from multiple genealogies of Women of Color Feminisms that pivots upon what Audre Lorde has articulated as a vital “ability . . . to identify and develop new definitions of power and new patterns of relating” within the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality. This theme touches upon the ways Ethnic Studies negotiates intellectual boundaries through interdisciplinarity and paystribute to how Ethnic Studies scholars continue to transgress and struggle with the limits of the academy, art, and activism. This issue calls for a variety of art and scholarship with the aim of enunciating what Chandra Talpade Mohanty has called “a multiple consciousness, one located at the juncture of contests over the meanings of racism, colonialism, sexualities, and class.” It speaks to the very heart of Ethnic Studies: a spirit of defiance and coalition across genre, medium, and space. We invite submissions from scholars, activists, and community members for this important issue of NSN that addresses the established legacy, challenges, and future of Ethnic Studies as a dynamic and collaborative force. “Across Difference” demonstrates the ways Ethnic Studies both undermines and transgresses the rigidity of disciplinary boundaries.
Front Matter
Masthead
Faini, Maria
A Conversation Across Difference
Faini, Maria; Sun, Kristen; Tran, Kim
Articles
Critical Race Insights from the Corazon/Heart: Pedagogy and Practice toward Healing in Ethnic Studies
Benavides Lopez, Corina
Old racisms, New masks: On the Continuing Discontinuities of Racism and the Erasure of Race in European Contexts
Salem, Sara; Thompson, Vanessa
Visual Media
Crop Forecast Down . . . Still No $eeds to Sow
Mansur, Kamal Al
n/a
Ghaderi, Parisa
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Ghaderi, Parisa
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Ghaderi, Parisa
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Ghaderi, Parisa
5
Ghaderi, Parisa
n/a
Baeza, Felipe
n/a
Baeza, Felipe
Hoot and Holler
Hawkins, Cynthia
Bear my shame
Yoshimoto, Jave Gakumei
They are a Hmong us
Yoshimoto, Jave Gakumei
n/a
Williams, Antoine
Literary & Creative Works
Be A Crossroads
Khanmalek, Tala
Critical Race Feminism at Home
Martin Perez, Sebastian
Chubby Thighs & Short Skirts: On Race, the Fat Body and the Feminine
Tovar, Virgie
pulling
Castillo, Vreni Michelini
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