Red Salmon Arts & Resistencia Bookstore Calendar February 2009

@ Resistencia Bookstore
1801-A South First St.
Austin, TX 78704
Phone: (512) 416-8885
Email:
revolu@swbell.net
http://www.resistenciabooks.com/

6:30pm Thursday Feb. 19, 2009
The Indigenous Studies Speakers Series, a program of the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement at UT, and Red Salmon Arts present a book signing and discussion with Andrea Smith,
author of Native Americans and the Christian Right: The Gendered Politics of Unlikely Alliances (Duke Univ. Press)
and Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide (South End Press)

Andrea Smith (Cherokee) is a longtime anti-violence and Native American activist and scholar. She is co-founder of INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, a national grassroots organization that utilizes direct action and critical dialogue. Smith has published widely on issues of violence against women of color and is one of the nation's leading experts on the topic, as well as a highly-sought after speaker.

Smith holds a B.A. from Harvard University in Comparative Study of Religion, a Masters of Divinity from the Union Theological Institute and a PhD from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in History of Consciousness.
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8:30pm Friday Feb. 20, 2009
Red Salmon Arts presents Prison, Disaster, Genocide: From (Antiblack) Slavery to Mt. Pinatubo,
a platica/discussion with Dylan Rodriguez.
*with special guest performance by Laya ("Freedom") Dance Collective, reclaiming the dignity of the Phillippines' cultural legacy through dance.

Dylan Rodriguez is an interdisciplinary scholar-activist whose interests traverse the fields of critical race studies and cultural studies, with focal attention to the intersections of race, state violence, and community/identity formation. His work attempts to engage with the field of radical and revolutionary praxis that has emerged in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, across the different sites and moments of struggle against global racism, white supremacy, and other forms of institutionalized dehumanization.

Among other political-intellectual collectives, he has worked with and/or alongside such organizations as Critical Resistance (a leading force in the contemporary prison abolitionist movement, see criticalresistance.org), INCITE! (a progressive antiviolence movement led by radical women of color, see incite-national.org), the Critical Filipino and Filipina Studies Collective (cffsc.focusnow.org), and the editorial board of the internationally recognized journal Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict, and World Order.

Rodriguez is the author of Forced Passages: Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals and the U.S. Prison Regime. His writings have appeared in such scholarly journals as Radical History Review, Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation, and Culture, The Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, and Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture. Some of his other written work has been included in such anthologies as Warfare: Prison and the American Homeland (ed. Joy Ann James), Positively No Filipinos Allowed: Building Communities and Discourse (eds. Tiongson, Gutierrez, and Gutierrez), Pedagogies of the Global: Knowledge in the Human Interest (ed. Arif Dirlik), and Radical Philosophy Today, Vol. 2: The Problems of Resistance, (Steve Martinot, ed.).

Dylan Rodriguez is an Associate Professor at University of California at Riverside, where he began his teaching career in 2001. He received his Ph.D. and his M.A. degrees in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and earned two B.A. degrees from Cornell University in Africana Studies (Magna Cum Laude) and the College Scholar Program, as well as a Concentration Degree in Asian American Studies