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Saturday, March 24 • 9:00am - 11:00am
West Coast Beats

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Andreana Clay, “Feelin’ Mighty Real: Race, Space, and Identity in the Castro”

Dawn-Elissa Fischer, “Bay Area Hiphop Politics and Police”

Mako Fitts, “‘Third World Wide’: Transnational Narratives of Resistance Amidst Seattle’s Growth Machine”

Shana L. Redmond, “The Last Anthem: Police Power and the Prophesy
of Rebellion in L.A.”

Moderator: Deborah Vargas

Speakers
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Andreana Clay

Andreana Clay is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at San Francisco State University. Her recent article, “Working Day and Night: Black Masculinity and the King of Pop,” was published in the Journal of Popular Music in March and her book, The Hip-Hop Generation... Read More →
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Dawn-Elissa Fischer

Dawn-Elissa Fischer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Africana Studies at SFSU, where she teaches courses on black popular culture, information technology and visual ethnography. As a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, she is completing two manuscripts entitled Blackness, Race and... Read More →
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Mako Fitts

Mako Fitts is a Faculty Associate in the Department of Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University. She is the co-founder of Women Who Rock: Making Scenes Building Communities, an annual Seattle-based conference of activists, scholars, musicians and artists that promote dialogue... Read More →
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Shana Redmond

Shana L. Redmond is Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. She is interested in black political cultures within the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.   Abstract:"The Last Anthem: Police Power and the Prophesy of Rebellion... Read More →
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Deborah Vargas

Deborah Vargas is Associate Professor in the Department of Chicano/Latino Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Her first book Dissonant Divas in Chicana Music: The Limits of La Onda is forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press. Vargas has contributed oral histories... Read More →

Saturday March 24, 2012 9:00am - 11:00am
NYU’s Helen and Martin Kimmel Center for University Life (KC) 60 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012
  405 KC