RICE Annual Report

2022-2023

RICE ANNUAL REPORT

Faculty-Director of RICE Professor Ming Hsu Chen

MESSAGE FROM THE FACULTY DIRECTOR Ming Hsu Chen

San Francisco is a crossroads for people from all over the world, particularly immigrants and racial minorities. RICE at UC Law SF brings together academic, legal, and policy research on issues that matter to those communities. Our inaugural year focused on the themes of equality and belonging. While there is shared meaning across communities, those themes take on one meaning for immigrants who are seeking to become citizens with equal rights under the law and another meaning for racial minorities who have struggled for centuries to make those equality rights real in their daily lives.

The RICE roundtables and colloquium series featured leading thinkers on affirmative action in higher education, racial capitalism and immigrant workers, racial disparities in refugee resettlement, and the influence of settler colonialism on U.S. border controversies. The Wong Kim Ark Community event and affirmative action roundtable exmained interracial dynamics between Asian, White, and Black citizens. Each event included the broad participation of students, faculty, and practitioners from surrounding community. They represent a sampling of the kinds of events we hope to offer in the future. We encourage you to join our efforts in the coming years!

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RICE Mission Statement The Center for Race, Immigration, Citizenship, and Equality (RICE) supports scholarship, education, and public service on the ways that intersectional and marginalized identities produce and reflect structural inequality.

The Center sponsors lectures and conferences that showcase research and scholarly writing from law, political science, sociology, history, and critical theory, leveraging Hastings’ existing strengths in Law & Society and in interdisciplinary scholarship. It will additionally integrate other UC and California campuses doing related research as part of the Academic Village.

The Center educates law students through research assistant and teaching positions, colloquium and conferences, and community educations programs. It also connects them with alumnae engaged in related practice areas.

The Center convenes policymakers, lawyers, community advocates, and legal scholars engaged in equality work for community events that engage the broader Hastings community.

FACULTY AFFILIATES

Alina Ball

Blaine Bookey

Richard Boswell

Veena Dubal

Thalia Gonzáles

Rory Little

Matt Coles

Karen Musalo

Christine Natoli

Reuel Schiller

OVERVIEW OF EVENTS for 2022-2023

RICE Launch Event NOVEMBER 18, 2022 Roundtable and Speaker Panel on Othering and Belonging

RICE Spring Colloquium JANUARY 19, 2023

FEBRUARY 2, 2023 Fireside Chat on Affirmative Action

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

MARCH 2, 2023 Conversation with Berkeley Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and CREJ Director Shauna Marshall

MARCH 2, 2023

Wong Kim Ark Day MARCH 25, 2023 Community event with Chinese Historical Society of America and CCBA in Chinatown for 125th anniversary of birthright citizenship decision

MARCH 23, 2023

APRIL 6, 2023

RICE LAUNCH EVENT Roundtable and Public Lecture on Othering and Belonging

Public Lecture on Belonging Speakers: Tomás Jimenez, Stanford University & IPL; Raquel Aldana, UC Davis Law & Global Migration Center; Hiroshi Motomura, UCLA Law & CILP; Irene Bloemraad, UC Berkeley & BIMI. "It turns out some of the things we think just have a positive impact on immigrants, actually turn out to have a broader positive effect on the community.”

- Professor Tomás Jimenez, Stanford

Roundtable on Engagement 25 academics, community leaders, and policy officials from across California came to discuss how they would implement ideas about belonging in their institutions and beyond.

"Community and solidarity are very powerful tools in the quest for a more just and equitable society.”

- Professor Alina Ball, CREJ Co-Director

SPRING 2023 RACE, CITIZENSHIP, AND EQUALITY COLLOQUIUM SERIES COLLOQUIUM DESCRIPTION: The concept of citizenship connects immigration with studies of race, international human rights, gender, criminality and many others. It has been receiving growing attention in many scholarly disciplines. Case studies focus on immigrants as well as the sometimes overlapping, sometimes distinct experiences of other “second class citizens” and vulnerable groups, including racial minorities, religious minorities, women, poor people, and persons with disabilities. This colloquium consisted of student discussions and guest speaker presentations of recent scholarly or policy research.

January 19

February 2

Anna Law, CUNY on Race, Reconstruction, and Black Citizenship. UC Law Faculty discussant Richard Boswell & UC Davis Law Jack Chin

David Fitzgerald, UC San Diego on Racial Disparities in Refugee Resettlement.

CGRS-UC Law Faculty Discussant Karen Musalo

February 16

March 2

E. Tendayi Achiume, UCLA on Race, Migration, and Colonialism. UC Law Faculty Discussant Chimène Keitner

Erwin Chemerinsky, UC Berkeley Law on Affirmative Action and the Erosion of Race-Based Remedies. UC Law Faculty Discussant Ming Hsu Chen

March 23

April 6

Sam Erman, University of Michigan on white nationalism, Wong Kim Ark and birthright citizenship.

UC Law Faculty Discussant Reuel Schiller

Sameer Ashar, UC Irvine on Racial Capitalism and immigrant workers. UC Law Faculty Discussant Veena Dubal

COLLOQUIUM INFO Hosted 6 national scholars for pubilc lectures. Average attendance 40-60 people in-person and online.

22 UC Law students in RICE seminar Videos of lectures online

CO-SPONSORED EVENTS AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS Fireside Chat on Affirmative Action in law schools Conversation with Erwin Chemerinsky and Center for Race and Economic Justice CoDirector Shauna Marshall Attended by 25 UC Law administrators, faculty, students

Wong Kim Ark Community Day Partnered with CHSA and CCBA community groups, legal historians, and public officials UC Law students and Asian Pacific American Law Student Association volunteered for event with 200+ UC Law and Chinatown attendees "It was so refreshing to step outside law school and into a community space, honoring the legacy of Wong Kim Ark." - Miquela Kallenberger, 2L

Students for Immigrants Rights and Hastings International Human Rights Organization at UC Law SF co-sponsored RICE Colloquium

Very Special Thanks To: Chancellor and Dean David Faigman Provost and Academic Dean Morris Ratner Center for Gender and Refugee Studies (CGRS) Center for Race and Economic Justice (CREJ) Events Staff Agnes de Vera, Leslie Hernandez, Cynthia Diaz, Norma Juarez, Joanne Tan-Casem RICE Research Fellow Miquela Kallenberger

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