FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Urgent Forum: The Murder of Lenca Activist Berta Cáceres and the future of Indigenous and Afrodescendant Rights in Honduras

Click here for the Spanish version. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 7, 2016 Urgent Forum: The Murder of Lenca Activist Berta Cáceres and the future of Indigenous and Afrodescendant Rights in Honduras American Indian Studies Center UCLA Contact: Dr. Shannon Speed Phone: (512) 470-0341 Email: sspeed@aisc.ucla.edu On April 8, 2016 an Urgent Forum organized by the … Read more

New Special AICRJ issue on ‘Settler Colonialism & The Legislating of Criminality’

  American Indian Culture and Research Journal: Vol. 40, No. 1 (2016) Settler Colonialism and the Legislating of Criminality Guest Editor: Luana Ross In Memoriam: Patrick Wolfe (February 18, 2016) by Mishuana Goeman Introduction by Luana Ross Articles (click on the links below to view abstracts) The Violent Legacies of the California Missions: Mapping the … Read more

The Settler Complex: Recuperating Binarism in Colonial Studies

The Settler Complex: Recuperating Binarism in Colonial Studies By Patrick Wolfe The essays in this volume confront the assimilationist agendas in settler-colonial states around the world that seek to erase the distinct histories and current status of Indigenous peoples as sovereign peoples. In the introduction, editor Patrick Wolfe provocatively asks whether the repudiation of binarism … Read more

Indian Country Today Media Network: Manufacturing Consent for the Living AND the Dead in Hawai’i

By Noelani Arista & Randall Akee November 20, 2015 As you read this, Na’i Aupuni (Seizure of Government), the new non-profit agency created and funded by the State of Hawai’i, is launching a Native Hawaiian constitutional convention. In order to understand the process it has never been more timely to have a public discussion about … Read more

Institute of American Cultures 2016-2017 Research Grant Program in Ethnic Studies

The Institute of American Cultures invites applications for support of research on African Americans, American Indians, Asian Americans, and Chicanas/os for 2016-2017. The Institute also invites proposals on interethnic relations that will increase collaboration between the Centers and/or between the Centers and other campus units. The Research Grant Program is on a reimbursement basis only. … Read more

Civil Beat: “He ‘Aha Kēia? Is This a Convention?” by Randall Akee

He ‘Aha Kēia? Is This a Convention? Delegate candidates for a Native Hawaiian Constitutional Convention do not reflect the true makeup of the Native Hawaiian population. On Sept. 30, 2015, the candidates for delegates for the aha (Native Hawaiian Constitutional Convention) organized by the group, Nai Aupuni, were announced. The biographies and backgrounds for the … Read more

Truth-out: “Academic Freedom Under Attack” by David Shorter

Higher education’s contribution to society rests upon the ability of educators to wrestle with challenging topics, no matter how complex or difficult to discuss. Such is the case with food safety, income inequality, institutionalized racism and a wide range of matters pertaining to public policy, just to name a few. Universities have historically expected the … Read more

Call for Submissions: The Indigenous Peoples’ Journal of Law, Culture & Resistance

The Indigenous Peoples’ Journal of Law, Culture & Resistance (IPJLCR) is accepting submissions for Volume 3. Submissions are being accepted until December 31, 2015. IPJLCR is a law journal at the University of California Los Angeles School of Law that is interdisciplinary in nature, consisting of academic articles, legal commentary, poetry, songs, stories, and artwork. … Read more

Professor Randall Akee interviewed on NPR: Nobel Prize winning economist Angus Deaton; then the impact of poverty on children

Princeton professor ANGUS DEATON was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Economics last week in recognition of his work focusing on measuring and assessing poverty. He has long been interested in looking at poverty not by income level, but by what people consume, their educational attainment and their life expectancy and how these factors should … Read more