Symposium "Intersecting Inequalities: Race, Gender, and Capitalism in the U.S. Welfare State"
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Das Symposium "Intersecting Inequalities: Race, Gender, and Capitalism in the U.S. Welfare State" findet am 27. Januar 2024 an der Universität Passau statt.
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Programm
Wann: Das Symposium findet am 27. Januar 2024 statt.
Wo: Universität Passau, Nikolakloster (NK) 211 & 212 (Dilab)
Welcome & OpeningKarsten Fitz (American Studies, Universität Passau) | 10.00 Uhr |
Introduction: Intersecting Inequalities: Race, Gender, and Capitalism in the U.S. Welfare StateGrit Grigoleit-Richter (American Studies, Universität Passau) | 10.05 Uhr |
Panel I: The Road to Welfare Retrenchment: Neoliberal AgencyModerator: Marian Ofori-Amoafo (American Studies, Universität Passau) Carceral Consequences for Sexual Minority Youth, 1976-1996 The Health Security Act under President Clinton – universal only for some? Undermining the Social State: The Role of Conservative Media in Fueling Support for the Neoliberal Economic Practices in the United States | 10.30 - 12.30 Uhr |
Pause | 12.30 - 13.15 Uhr |
Critical Reflections on Race and Welfare are just the Ticket: A Critical Race Theory Counterstory à la MartinezVanessa Vollman (American Studies, Universität Passau) | 13.15 - 13.45 Uhr |
Panel II: The Battle for Welfare: Local Advocacy & ResponsesModerator: Anna-Lisa Müller (Anthropogeography, Universität Passau) Welfare as Civil Right: Race, Gender and Civil Rights Activism during the Newburgh, New York Controversy Expanding Frontiers of Property and Real Estate Capital: Public Housing Renewal in New York City Apologists for Austerity? Mutual Aid and Welfare State Retrenchment | 14.00 - 16.00 Uhr |
Pause | 16.00 - 16.30 Uhr |
Book LaunchLiving on Credit: People, Power, and Debt in the United States from the End of Slavery to the Present | 16.30 - 18.00 Uhr |
Closing | 18.00 Uhr |
Vergangene Symposien
Das Symposium fand am 28. Juni 2023 statt. In Seminaren, interaktiven Workshops und Diskussionsrunden wurden Themen mit Bezug auf Migration und Rassismus intensiv erörtert.
29.10.2021 Online Symposium zum Thema “Participation, Marginalization, and Exclusion in the U.S. Welfare State”
Poverty and subsequently anti-poverty measures and policies have been a contested terrain throughout U.S. history. The idea of public assistance commonly termed welfare has a strong moral content: it entails notions of how we should live and how others ought to live their lives. Hence, how Americans view poverty and who is thought to be worthy or unworthy of deserving welfare benefits is linked not only to more abstract principles such as equality, social responsibility, or justice, but to -at times- very nuanced understandings of marriage, family, motherhood, or work ethic. These understandings, however, are deeply ingrained in a white racial frame and as such create exclusionary and discriminating policies for various minority and immigrant groups thus fostering racial inequalities.
Our symposium “Participation, Marginalization, and Exclusion in the U.S. Welfare State” critically addresses the entangled relationship between race, class, and gender and the welfare state from various perspectives. Furthermore, our keynote lecture by Dr. Thomas Shapiro attends to the troubling issue of systemic inequality expressed in the widening racial wealth gap.
We are looking forward to a stimulating discussion and welcome you to an exciting symposium.
29.10.2021, 18:30 Uhr Keynote Lecture von Dr. Thomas Shapiro (Brandeis University): "Racial Wealth Inequality and the State":
The intentional racialization of wealth is a foundational dynamic of the United States, simultaneously creating wealth for some and imposing a highly restrictive welfare state for others. This process manufactures systemic inequality and racial injustice while framing its legitimacy.
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