Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium

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47th meeting of the Politic of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium
University of California, Riverside, CA Friday, September, 29, 2017
Humanities Building, Room 1500

Overview
8:30am – 9:00am  Welcome and Catered Coffee
9:00am – 9:40am Short presentations

  • Steph El-Katib and Loren Collingwood, University of California, Riverside “Sanctuary Cities”
  • Youssef Chouhoud, University of Southern California “Are Minorities Intolerant Like Everyone Else?”

9:45am – 11:25am Dissertation Projects I

  • Nicole Filler, University of California Santa Barbar, “Asian American Social Justice Activism in Two Cities”
  • Andrew Janusz, University of California San Diego, “Race and Representation: An Analysis of Brazil”

11:30am – 12:15pm Catered Networking Lunch
12:15pm – 2:20pm Dissertation Projects II

  • Lisa Beard, University of California Riverside, “Our People Are Worth the Risk: Race, Identification, and the Formation of Political Community.”
  • Melina Juárez, University of New Mexico, “Queering Latinidad: Latinx Politics Beyond Nativity”
  • Ayobami Laniyonu, University of California Los Angeles, “Policing, Place, and Political Participation: How Municipal Political Economy Affects Local Police Practices and Political Behavior”

2:20pm – 2:30pm Networking coffee break
2:30pm – 3:55pm Dissertation Projects III

  • Michael Nicholson, University of California San Diego, “Weaving Invisible Threads: Immigrants’ Identities, Interests, and Host-Country Political Participation.”
  • Kristina Piorkowski, University of New Mexico, “Evaluating the Impact of Preferences and Knowledge on the Willingness to Pay for a Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax.”

3:55pm – 4:00pm Networking coffee break
4:00pm – 5:30pm Dissertation Projects IV

  • Joaquin Rubalcaba, University of New Mexico, “Labor Supply and Temporary Reprieve from Deportation: Evidence from the DACA Program”
  • Jessica Lynn Stewart, University of California Los Angeles, “Spatialized Racial Progress Views: The Influence of Economic Restructuring and Geography on Perceptions of American Racial Progress.”