Category Archives: Race and Ethnicity

Out of My Habitus – “I’m Just Saying”: Students who “debate you” and undermine you through racial and gendered performances of “smartness”

Posted on May 2, 2013 by khsu

By Juan Portillo If you’re a TA or professor, this has probably happened to you: a student in class challenges something you are teaching and ends their spiel by saying: “I’m just saying…,” leaving the ball in your court. For … Continue reading →

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Feeling the Body: Embodying Sociology at the CWGS Conference

Posted on March 25, 2013 by amias

Recently, the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies hosted a productive and stimulating academic conference entitled “The Feeling Body.”  With the emerging attention the body and affect are receiving in research, this was a great chance for graduate students across disciplines … Continue reading →

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Out of My Habitus – Why my education and manners get in the way of doing research

Posted on March 4, 2013 by amias

By Juan Portillo  Linda Tuhiwai Smith writes in Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples that Western academia has historically engaged in a process of legitimizing “what counts as knowledge, as language, as literature, as curriculum and as the role of … Continue reading →

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Opening the Blinds: A Convesation with Juan Portillo

Posted on November 30, 2012 by amias

In the final part of our series looking at the “Opening the Blinds” panel – dealing with the experiences of students of color here at UT and previously highlighted here and here – we offer a conversation between Juan Portillo, … Continue reading →

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Clips from Opening the Blinds: Talking Race, Sex and Class at UT-Austin

Posted on November 20, 2012 by khsu

by Kevin Hsu and Evelyn Porter Panelists: Marianna Anaya, Mexican American Studies and Radio, Television and Film junior, member of La Colectiva Femenil Marleen Villanueva, Spanish senior, member of La Colectiva Femenil Juan Portillo, PhD student in Sociology Rocio Villalobos, … Continue reading →

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UT Sociology Graduate Community: The Race & Ethnicity Group

Posted on September 8, 2012 by amias

This past Friday, the Race & Ethnicity graduate student community group held its first meeting.  Founded in 2009, the group was created with three main goals in mind.  The first is to offer graduate students interested in race & ethnicity … Continue reading →

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Minority Reports: Asian Americans in Class and at Work

Posted on August 19, 2012 by khsu

ASA Regular Session on Asians and Asian Americans: Economic and Educational Processes. ‘Discrimination and Psychological Distress among Asian Americans: Exploring the Moderating Effect of Education’ (Wei Zhang, University of Hawaii; PhD, UT-Austin, 2008); ‘Are Asian American Women Advantaged? Labor Market Performances … Continue reading →

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The Obamas and the New Politics of Race

Posted on June 26, 2012 by khsu

With the 2012 US presidential election campaign in full swing, the meaning and significance of Barack Obama and his presidency are once again in the spotlight. Has the election of Barack Obama served as the watershed moment for American politics … Continue reading →

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UT Blackademics: Embracing New Media by Shantel G. Buggs

Posted on April 28, 2012 by Vivian Shaw

Last semester, I had the opportunity to join a steering committee to develop a new graduate-level “action research” course in UT’s African and African Diaspora Studies (AADS) Department. In our weekly meetings, several other graduate students from various departments, myself, … Continue reading →

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A response to Makode Linde’s ‘genital mutilation cake performance’ by Letisha Brown

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Vivian Shaw

On Sunday April 15th, “the Swedish minister of culture Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth cut in to a large cake shaped like a black woman as part of an art installation which was reportedly meant to highlight the issue of female circumcision” … Continue reading →

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