November 21, 2015, UC Berkeley

This panel was part of the Conference on Third World Multiracial Solidarity and Community Engagement. Following a film screening of On Strike: Ethnic Studies 1969-1999, by Irum Sheikh, the panel includes reflections from UC Berkeley alumni student organizers of the 1999 Ethnic Studies Strike. 

Ziza Delgado, UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies 
Prof. Roberto Hernandez, San Diego State University
Prof. Priya Kandaswamy, Mills College
Prof. Sara Clarke Kaplan, UC San Diego
Prof. Jeff Romm, UC Berkeley
Prof. Irum Shiekh, University of Oregon
Moderated by Prof. Paola Bacchetta, UC Berkeley

More info: http://crg.berkeley.edu/content/1999-strike


"On Strike: Ethnic Studies 1969-1999" Panel

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