What has it meant to be Jewish in a nation defined by the categories of Black and White? Are American Jews of European background members of a vulnerable minority group or part of the privileged white majority? Or both? This discussion will examine the uneasy place Jews have held in America’s racial culture since the late nineteenth century and also ask what role they have to play in today’s movements for racial justice. […]

Scholarly Intersections Event Scholar Dr. Carly Thomsen, faculty in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Middlebury College, will be visiting campus next week on Thursday, April 28th (3-4:30pm) to share her research and excellent first monograph, Visibility Interrupted: Rural Queer Life & The Politics of Unbecoming. She will also be showing an associated short film […]

The CSULB Jewish Studies Program is delighted to sponsor a talk by, Dr. Jeffrey Blutinger, on Monday, May 23rd at 7:00 pm (over Zoom).   The earliest American Jewish women in comedy, people like Fanny Brice, Belle Barth, Sophie Tucker, and Pearl Williams, were referred to as “unkosher comediennes.”  In this talk, Dr. Blutinger will trace […]

Educational and informative discussion about the importance of the U.S. Constitution Register at: https://bit.ly/CSULBConstitutionDay Moderator: Professor Kevin Johnson Panelists: Professor Jason Whitehead Amy Yamasaki, Master's student Questions? Ricki.Burgener@csulb.edu

This Friday, September 23, 2022, is California Indian Day, and the American Indian Student Council, the Program in American Indian Studies, and the Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum are proud to host a poetry reading with Professor Georgiana Sanchez, CSULB Alumna and former professor. Professor Sanchez will read from her newly published book of […]

SIG Event Free Food!   Are you curious about how literature is consumed outside of the classroom—how students select books and get recommendations (Booktok? Instabook? etc.). How we can we better connect with them on social media. We have set up this event as an egalitarian interaction, kind of like a town hall, with a […]