2022-2023
RICE ANNUAL REPORT
Professor Ming Hsu Chen
Faculty-Director of RICEMESSAGE 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 Matt Coles Christine Natoli
Veena Dubal Thalia Gonzáles Rory Little Karen Musalo 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
MARCH 2, 2023
Conversation with Berkeley Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and CREJ Director Shauna Marshall
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
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
MARCH 2, 2023
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.
- Professor Alina Ball, CREJ Co-Director
"Community and solidarity are very powerful tools in the quest for a more just and equitable society ”
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
Anna Law, CUNY on Race, Reconstruction, and Black Citizenship UC Law Faculty discussant Richard Boswell & UC Davis Law Jack Chin
February 16
E. Tendayi Achiume, UCLA on Race, Migration, and Colonialism UC Law Faculty Discussant
Chimène Keitner
March 23
Sam Erman, University of Michigan on white nationalism, Wong Kim Ark and birthright citizenship. UC Law Faculty Discussant Reuel Schiller
COLLOQUIUM INFO
February 2
David Fitzgerald, UC San Diego on Racial Disparities in Refugee Resettlement.
CGRS-UC Law Faculty
Discussant Karen Musalo
March 2
Erwin Chemerinsky, UC Berkeley Law on Affirmative Action and the Erosion of Race-Based Remedies UC Law Faculty
Discussant Ming Hsu Chen
April 6
Sameer Ashar, UC Irvine on Racial Capitalism and immigrant workers UC Law Faculty Discussant
Veena Dubal
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, 2LStudents for Immigrants Rights and Hastings International Human Rights Organization at UC Law SF co-sponsored RICE Colloquium
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
Connect with RICE! @ RICE UCLawSF Center for Race, Immigration, Citizenship, and Equality @ RICE UCLawSF Center for Race, Immigration, Citizenship, & Equality (RICE) Website Donate to RICE 200 McAllister Street, San Francisco, CA 94102 rice@uchastings edu 415-565-4778
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