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GRADUATE FORUM on RACE AND ETHNICITY

Join the Center for Race & Ethnicity’s 8th Annual
GRADUATE FORUM on RACE AND ETHNICITY
Friday, February 27, 2015
Center for Race and Ethnicity, 191 College Avenue, First Floor

The Center for Race & Ethnicity invites Rutgers M.A. and Ph.D. students to take part in a cross-disciplinary conversation about graduate research related to the study of race and ethnicity. Students from all levels of study (from 1st year graduate students to ABDs) and from all campuses and schools at Rutgers, including Public Policy, Law, Social Work, Education, Business, and Arts and Sciences, are welcome! This event is part of the Center for Race & Ethnicity’s ongoing initiative to promote interdisciplinary exchange and collaboration.
Panelists will give a brief 5-7 minute presentation of their work. Formal papers are not required for participation. (more…)

CURE supports grad students to present research at the American Society of Criminology in San Francisco, California

CURE awarded travel grants to 2 Rutgers graduate students —

Kasey Reeves, a second year graduate student in the Criminal Justice Master’s Program at Rutgers University in Camden. (Her interests include at-risk youth and police recruitment.)

and

Madison Nilsen, a second year graduate student in the Criminal Justice Master’s Program at Rutgers University in Camden. (She is interested in youth risk behavior and juvenile justice.)

The Criminal Justice students participated in the American Society of Criminology in San Francisco, California in November. They presented findings from the EPIC Camden study in a paper that they co-presented, entitled, “It’s just a free-for-all out here.” Contextualizing Adolescent Strategies to Acquire Alcohol. They have been a vital part of the research team (collecting data, etc) and co-authoring papers with CURE affiliated scholars Stacia Gilliard Matthews and Robin Stevens.

Join us for a screening of Do the Right Thing (1989) — Friday, December 19, 2014

CURE and the Digital Studies Center cordially invite you to attend the Screening and Discussion of:

Do the Right Thing (1989)

Written and Directed by Spike Lee

Spike Lee’s third feature takes place on the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, when everyone’s hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.

Discussant: Robert Emmons, Associate Director of the Digital Studies Center and documentary filmmaker.

Friday, December 19, 2014 12pm – 2pm
Faculty Lounge, 3rd floor Armitage Hall
Lunch will be served (more…)

Recording of Camden Citywide Housing Vacancy Data Release

Please visit http://bit.ly/1BabimK for a recording of this event

Next CURE seminar, Lori Minnite: Friday, December 12, 2014 @ 12:15pm

Please join us for our next seminar:

“Does Concentration Worsen Poverty? The Philadelphia Case”

Lori Minnite, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Public Policy and Administration
Rutgers University-Camden

Friday, December 12, 2014 12:15pm – 1:30pm
Faculty Lounge, 3rd floor Armitage Hall
Lunch will be served

Scholars of political incorporation understand that for African Americans, the foundation of advancement in electoral politics has been the concentration of black voters in jurisdictions where they could engage in mobilization campaigns and out-vote whites simply by virtue of their sheer numbers. At the same time, scholars of urban poverty have argued that concentration or neighborhood effects negatively impact the life chances of residents of deprived neighborhoods over and above the effects of their individual characteristics. The question is how concentration effects can be good for politics but bad for the very people who need political representation the most, the urban poor. I explore the problem using micro-data to examine shifting patterns of political participation and poverty for the City of Philadelphia since 1970. (more…)