FW: wed 11/16 discussion - intersectionality & CUNY/public education/OWS
Einat Manoff
FIY-/OWS
dear friends,
you are welcome to join us this wednesday 11/16 for an open discussion/teach in focused on theories of intersectionality and feminist geopolitics, as they connect to issues of public education and OWS more broadly.
11/16 9:30 - 11:30 am
room 6114, CUNY Graduate Center
The Env Soc Science III class - "Social & Cultural Theories of Place" has decided to focus our class as a teach in/discussion in the spirit of solidarity with the CUNY Student Week of Direct Action & Occupy Wall Street (OWS)'s 2nd month anniversary and the city wide day of action. the class will be co-facilitated with maria rodó de zárate (visiting scholar/student from Barcelona).
To prepare for our discussion please read (attached):
Kimberlee. W Crenshaw. (1995). Mapping the margins: Intersectionality, identity politics, and violence against women of color. In Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings that Formulated the Movement, ed. Kimberl. W. Crenshaw, Neil Gotanda, Gary Pellow, and Kendell Thomas. New York: New Press: 357–83.
Alison Mountz and Jennifer Hyndman 2006: Feminist approaches to the global intimate. Women’s Studies Quarterly 34, 446–63.
The zine “On The Recent Occupations #” (From Occupy Baltimore) made by feminists involved with the movement a few weeks ago.
optional reading : Judith Butler, 2005. Undoing Gender. New York: Routledge, pp. 17-39.
Please also watch the following speeches by Judith Butler and Angela Davis at Occupy Wall Street.
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/55403 (speech + questions&answers)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlvfPizooII (speech)
Judith Butler:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYfLZsb9by4
We also invite you to also peruse the incredible knowledge dossier created by the CUNY Graduate Center General assembly focused on CUNY’s history of struggle. This will help to ground our discussion more specifically on the issues of public education.
Resources for CUNY faculty and Students (easily accessible online – all are pdf or html):
***This dossier is broken into three sections: (1) a set of articles and primary documents depicting struggle at CUNY for open admissions, free speech, equal rights, and against downsizing and privatization; (2) a set of reports and plans commissioned by CUNY's administration and the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank; and (3) a list of frequently updated web sites and web resources.
1. Struggle at CUNY
1.1. CUNY's history of struggle, ordered chronologically:
The Struggle for Free Speech at CCNY, 1931-42. Textual and visual analysis.
Demands of the BPRSC of Harlem University (April-May 1969) What started the push for open admissions.
The Struggle for CUNY – Chritopher Gunderson’s narrative and analysis of student struggle at CUNY from 1969 and 1999.
The History of the City College of New York: 1969-1999 – A web page on the history of student struggle at City College.
Hostos Community College: Battle of the Seventies. A personal-historical account of the 1975-76 financial crisis by the Coordinator of the Coalition to Save Hostos Community College, Ramon J. Jimenez. pdf or html
Save Hostos: Politics and Community Mobilization to Save a College in the Bronx, 1973-1978. — A personal account by Gerald Meyer of the struggle to save Hostos College.
1.2. Open Admissions and Civil Rights at CUNY
The Struggle at CUNY: Open Admissions and Civil Rights 1992 article by Ron McGuire, who was expelled during the open admissions strike at CCNY in 69.
An Open Admissions Program For a Democratic City University. This 10 point program was put out by Hostos Students for Open Admissions and the Hostos Student Government in Spring 1998.
The CUNY Struggle: Class & Race In Public Higher Education. 1999 article by Nancy Romer, taken from the New Politics.
Smash Racist Purge of CUNY– Fight for Open Admissions, Free Tuition! Article on the 1999 Student Protests.
CLOSING CUNY’S DOORS. En espanol. Estan Cerrando Las Puertas de CUNY. On the end of open admissions and what it means for people of color and the working class.
Some Thoughts on the History of CUNY SLAM.
1.3. Privatization, austerity, and Governance
The Free Academy No More: Restoring CUNY’s Promise. Article arguing for reinstatement of free tuition at CUNY.
The Crisis at CUNY: Privatization and Downsizing (2001)
Another University is Possible: Academic Labor, the Ideology of Scarcity, and the Fight for Workplace Democracy. Discusses the PSC struggle to win a new contract during 2005-6 and situates it within the history of CUNY.
Turning back the right-wing attack on education: NYC ruling class targets Black, Latino City University students Short history of struggle against educational apartheid at CUNY, written in 2006.
CUNY Rising: College Activists Mobilize Campus-Wide 3-Day Social Forum Good Stats on CUNY
Occupy the Octopi Poster of CUNY being strangled by a Neoliberal mollusc
1.4. Articles from Love & Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation (1997) [good short articles on CUNY]
Students Fight Educational Apartheid
Hunter Students SEEK Justice
United Front Builds then Shuts Down Bridges
Hostos Students Under Attack in NYC
The Politics of Race and Class at CUNY
2. Management’s Perspective
2.1. Documents and Reports commissioned by CUNY
The City University of New York: An Institution Adrift (THE MASTER PLAN to restructure—that is, neoliberalize—CUNY, 1999)
The Governance of the City University of New York: A System at Odds with Itself (Report commissioned by the Mayor’s Advisory Task Force on the City University of New York:)
Issue of Tuition and Funding at the City University of New York (Discusses the history of Tuition at CUNY and the role of tuition at CUNY in the context of the overall funding of CUNY, numbers galore, 2003)
CUNY Compact (Chancellor Goldstein’s public-private partnership and financing plan to deal with ‘too little investment and too little revenue.’ In other words, how Goldstein and the trustees are going to neoliberalize CUNY. This is the promotional flyer.)
CUNY Master Plan 2008-12 (still adrift?)
The Chancellor’s Vision of Higher Education [New CUNY motto: Tracking for Life!]
2.2 Articles by the Manhattan Institute – a conservative free-market think thank — calling for transformation from "remedial backwater" to " "elite institution":
CUNY could be good again
Merit Pay for Prof’s
Room for Excellence
Setting a Higher Standard
Downward Mobility
2.3 On Manhattan Institute’s rise to power in NYC
Conservatives plant a seed in NYC: Think tank helps Giuliani set his agenda
The Manhattan Institute Nudges New York Rightward
3. Frequently updated web resources
CUNY Board of Trustee Minutes. From 1940 through today.
CUNY facts. Great resource for data on enrollment, admissions, degrees granted, race/ethnicity, SEEK/Discovery.
The Chancellor. Find out the Chancellor’s take on CUNY, his plans for its future, and his understanding of CUNY’s role in the future of NYC.
CUNY Budget. Information on the CUNY master plan, capital budget, CUNY compact, and numerous other finance and budget reports.
Invest in CUNY. Find all about the direct links between the power elite in NYC and CUNY; philanthropy abounds and is shaping the future of CUNY.
CUNY Matters. Magazine of CUNY.
PSC Clarion. Great for stats and information on CUNY, both present and historically. [Paper of the CUNY PSC Union]
GC Advocate. Helpful for stats and back information on CUNY. [Student Paper of the CUNY Graduate Center]
New York Times: Articles on CUNY. Subpage of NY Times articles on CUNY dating back to 198 - if you don't have a subscription.
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Caitlin Cahill, PhD
Assistant Professor, Urban Studies
New Community College
City University of New York