RMS
THE DARTMOUTH CONSORTIUM OF STUDIES IN RACE,MIGRATION, AND SEXUALITY
Artist: Chitra Ganesh, The Arrow 2015
RMS is an interdisciplinary research and teaching initiative aimed at deepening social and cultural analyses of worlds and works shaped by the colonial and transnational forces of race, migration, and sexuality.
Race
Migration
Sexuality
RMS Theme
RMS seeded important work that has taken root across departments and programs in the arts and sciences. While RMS’s activities concluded in April 2022, continued funding from the dean of faculty builds on its successes by expanding opportunities for postdoctoral fellows and undergraduate students studying race, migration, and sexuality to further research and collaborate. The commitment of resources to these opportunities builds on the energy and enthusiasm expressed by RMS’s postdoctoral and undergraduate fellows.
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The Consortium of Studies in Race, Migration, and Sexuality is pleased to announce our theme, “Our Moment of Danger: Studying Race, Migration and Sexuality in the 21st Century Academy,” for the Undergraduate Fellows program for the 2021-22 academic year.
News
Evan Barton: A Response to Wonder Gays, Ninja Queens & Pimps
kate-hers RHEE and Viêt Lê gave provocative performances on topics of othering, gendered experience as an adopted immigrant, and navigating and creating queer spaces in performance art. Transnationalism being a center piece of her artwork, RHEE's...
Transnational and Decolonial Humanities: U.S. Ethnic Studies and its Global Other
The Humanities Institute we proposed, “Transnational and Decolonial Humanities: U.S. Ethnic Studies and its Global Other,” has been selected and approved by the Leslie Center for Fall 2020! We will soon roll out the call for application...
WGSS 20.03: Introduction to Studies of Race, Migration, and Sexuality
A new course, WGSS 20.03 Introduction to Studies of Race, Migration, and Sexuality has been approved for Spring 2020, 3B. This course is an effort to constellate interdisciplinary and intersectional studies across the fields of Latinx,...
RMS Statements
RMS STATEMENT ON ANTI-ASIAN VIOLENCE
“The disturbing rise of anti-Asian violence must be reckoned with today, while ever clarifying our historical sight and rallying us further toward political solidarity.“
RMS STATEMENT ON CRITICAL RACE THEORY
“If systematic racism is a federal crime, the White House should lead by example and investigate itself. Instead, it is sanctioning assault on critical race theory which reveals rather than covers up those crimes.”
RMS STATEMENT ON U.S. SOCIAL UNREST
“At this time of societal crises, we, the faculty members of the Dartmouth Consortium of Studies in Race, Migration, and Sexuality want to reiterate our resolute stance against anti-Blackness and all forms of racism and xenophobia, and to urge awareness of the long history of state-authorized, unpunished killing of African American men, women, trans men and trans women that is central to the public’s current outrage.”
Upcoming Events
April 1-2 Symposium, 4-5 scholars, possibly George Lipsitz, Hazel Carby, Lorza & TBD
October 4th
Lorena Oropeza
Lorena Oropeza studies people who during the 1960s raised hell because they wanted to stop a war, or fight racial injustice, or overthrow patriarchy. She was attracted to history as a field because, like those 1960s activists, she wishes to harness the subversive potential of history to interrogate received wisdom. Learn More
October 11th
Ersula Ore
Ersula J. Ore is an associate professor of African and African American studies and rhetoric at Arizona State University. Her work examines the suasive strategies of aggrieved communities as they operate within a post-emancipation historical context.Learn More
October 26th
David Eng
David L. Eng is Richard L. Fisher Professor of English. He is also Professor in the Program in Asian American Studies, the Program in Comparative Literature & Literary Theory, and the Program in Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies. Learn More
February 21th-25th
Malinda Maynor Lowery
Malinda Maynor Lowery’s professional career began twenty-two years ago as a documentary film producer. In her film work she was concerned with transmitting knowledge visually and aurally to affect the viewer emotionally. Learn More
April 21-22 George Emilio Sanchez, performance at Hood
George Emilio Sanchez is a writer, performance artist and social justice activist. He was born in Los Angeles, raised in Orange County, California, and became a New York transplant in 1978. He began making original pieces in 1992 and has continued making performance work and social justice projects to this day. He is currently in the process of crafting a new performance series titled “Performing the Constitution.” Learn More