NEWS & EVENTS
Tentative Spring 2019 Calendar
February:
Premilla Nadasen (Bard) on history of and current efforts towards organizing domestic workers
Late February:
Housing and Inequality
Nathan Connolly (Johns Hopkins) on homeownership and black capitalism
Kim Manturuk (Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill, social dimensions of homeownership
Elaine Gross (ERASE Racism) on housing and discrimination on Long Island
March:
Poor People’s Movements, Then and Now
Michael Honey (University of Washington—Seattle) on ML King, Jr.’s Poor People’s Movement
Representatives of national and Long Island Poor People’s Campaign
April 4:
2019 Allen Lecture on Race and Class in America:
William Darity (Duke) “The Subaltern Middle Class”
Panel on Higher Education in an Age of Inequality
Late April:
Native Americans and racism event
Meetings
WCSA 2018 Conference:
CLASS AT THE BORDER: MIGRATION, CONFINEMENT, AND (IM)MOBILITY
The Working-Class Studies Association met at Stony Brook for its 2018 Annual Conference, with above theme. The Center hosted the event, as it has done for the past decade, on the campus of Stony Brook University in June of 2018.
Videos of the annual Working Class Studies Conference, hosted by the CSISJP in June of 2018, are now live. Click HERE for more information.
Introducing The Ineqwiki
The Ineqwiki provides a clearinghouse for the island's community groups and other non-profits, as well as academics, students, and others in colleges and universities, to find one another and collaborate. It seeks to become a springboard for joint work, whether through internships, class or service projects or research, that helps illuminate, address and remedy the many faces of inequality and injustice on Long Island.
Recent Tweets
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Dr. Asare: have to address learned & chosen ignorance by acknowledging FEAR of losing (white) self-identity #SBUSocialJustice #BuildAJustLI
Fleming: to de-center "white racial frame" we have to center voices, emotions of people of color
#SBUSocialJustice #BuildAJustLI
Dr. Asare goes on to cite a history a racial inequality, human rights abuses in local jails, and hate embedded in the fabric of Long Island. #BuildAJustLI
"This notion that Long Island was always peaceful before, ignores the way that the safety has never been extended to all of us" - Dr. Asare #BuildAJustLI