Cristina Mora: “Immigration Attitudes in the Golden State”
Thursday, March 16th
4:00pm | ZSR Library Auditorium (Room 404)Please save the date for the second event in the co-sponsored speaker series, “Societies in Crisis: Inequities and Social Change.” Professor Cristina Mora will give a research talk, “Immigration Attitudes in the Golden State,” on Thursday, March 16th at 4:00pm in the ZSR Library Auditorium (Room 404).
4:00pm | ZSR Library Auditorium (Room 404)Please save the date for the second event in the co-sponsored speaker series, “Societies in Crisis: Inequities and Social Change.” Professor Cristina Mora will give a research talk, “Immigration Attitudes in the Golden State,” on Thursday, March 16th at 4:00pm in the ZSR Library Auditorium (Room 404).
Dr. Cristina Mora is Associate Professor of Sociology and Chicano/Latino Studies and the Co-Director of the Institute of Governmental Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work investigates panethnicity among Latin Americans in the United States and race and politics in the United States. In her talk, she will address how ambivalence shapes attitudes surrounding immigration debates. Rather than simply representing an undifferentiated or wavering middle positionality, her work argues that ambivalent and uncertain responses can also indicate distinct kinds of calculated positions that stand in opposition to the poles.
Co-Sponsored by The Provost Fund for Academic Excellence, the Department of Sociology, American Ethnic Studies, the Humanities Institute (with support made possible by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities), the Center for Bioethics, Health and Society, the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, the Race, Inequality and Policy Initiative, and Latin American and Latino Studies.