Urban Color-Lines

Inaugurating the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy

UCLA, February 4–5, 2016

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About This Event

Cities manifest the inequalities of our times. From the dispossessions wrought by neoliberal policy and global finance to the divides maintained by long histories of redlining and racial quarantine, the color-lines of the 20^th century endure and evolve. But it is in unequal cities that a powerful story is unfolding: that of worldwide struggles to resist evictions and foreclosures and to craft a politics of spatial justice in the face of repeated banishment. Connecting the South Side of Chicago with the Cape Flats of South Africa, linking ghetto and favela, scaling from local communities to the courtroom to the United Nations, thinking across the global South and global Los Angeles, these poor people’s movements claim and enact democratic rights. Inspired by such action, we inaugurate the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy by convening research and critical thought to confront urban color-lines. In doing so, we also seek to transform the global university, its canons of knowledge and its engagement with the lives and histories of subordinated peoples.

Ferguson by Eden McNutt

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Thank you to all who were able to join us for the inauguration of the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy. We hope that, for you, Urban Color-Lines provoked critical thinking, discussion, and alliances. For those who were unable to make it, very soon, we will post video recordings of the sessions and hope you will return to our website.

Most important, in the coming months, we look forward to sharing with everyone the research, public programs, and teaching promoted by the institute.

We invite you to stay engaged with our work.

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Program

Thursday, February 4, 2016

11:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.	Why Think About Inequality & Democracy Together? Room 2355, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs Welcome by Lois Takahashi, Dean, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs Opening remarks by Ananya Roy, Director, Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin
11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.	Markets, Race, and the Aftermath of Slavery Room 2355, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs Chair: Leobardo Estrada, Chair, Academic Senate, UCLA Speaker: Cheryl Harris, UCLA School of Law and Chair, African American Studies
12:30 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.	Lunch
1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.	The Right to the City: From South to North Room 2355, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs Chair: Chris Tilly, Urban Planning, UCLA Speakers: Toussaint Losier, Afro-American Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and co- founder, Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign Raquel Rolnik, Urban Planning, University of São Paulo, Brazil Richard Pithouse, Unit for Humanities at Rhodes University, South Africa Gautam Bhan, Indian Institute for Human Settlements, India
6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.	Black, Brown, and Banished: Ending Urban Displacement in 21st Century Democracies Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles (Round-trip transportation from UCLA will be provided.) 6 – 6:30 pm. Reception Performances Bodies on the Line: Artists Fight Back Curator: Dan Froot, 501 (see three) ARTS and UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/ Dance Dance by Bernard Brown Dance/Spoken Word by Sandy Vazquez and Ericka Jones Excerpts from Oral Histories of Displaced Angelinos, by Dan Froot with Dorothy Dubrule Eviction/Action Moderators: Laura Pulido, American Studies and Ethnicity, USC, and Ananya Roy, Director, Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin Speakers: Ashraf Cassiem, Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign, South Africa Willie (JR) Fleming, Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign Patricia Hill, Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign Pete White, LA Community Action Network

Friday, February 5, 2016

10:15 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.	What Do We Hope to Achieve Today and Now? Room 2355, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs Ananya Roy, Director, Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin
10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.	Debtors’ Prisons and Debtors’ Unions: Direct Action in Finance Capitalism Room 2355, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs Chair: Robin D.G. Kelley, African American Studies and History, UCLA Speaker: Hannah Appel, Anthropology, UCLA
11:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.	Lunch served in Room 2343, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
12:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.	Decolonizing the University Room 2355, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs Moderator: Ananya Roy, Director, Institute on Inequality and Democracy at UCLA Luskin Speakers: Gaye Theresa Johnson, African American Studies and Chicana/o Studies, UCLA Camalita Naicker, Political and International Studies, Rhodes University, South Africa Carlos Vainer, Chair, Forum of Science and Culture, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Marques Vestal, History, UCLA
7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.	The Audacity of Despair James Bridges Theater, UCLA Screening: Show Me a Hero Keynote Lecture: David Simon, writer and creator, The Wire, Treme, Show Me a Hero

Parking and Public Transportation

The Japanese American National Museum is easily accessible by public transportation, including the Dash and Metro lines. Union Station is a 15-minute walk or a short ride on a Dash bus. Contact your local public transportation agency for bus routes, times, and fees: www.ladottransit.com, www.metro.net. In addition, there are a number of public parking lots within walking distance of the museum. JANM recommends parking in City of Los Angeles Parking Lot 7: 140 N Judge John Aiso St Los Angeles, CA 90012.
For daytime UCLA campus events, we strongly encourage public transportation (Big Blue Bus, Culver City Bus, Metro) or carpooling. The Luskin School of Public Affairs is located in the Northeast part of campus and the nearest parking lot is Structure 3. Structure 3 has a limited number of Pay-by-Space parking spots. Otherwise, you may purchase an all-day permit from any UCLA parking kiosk: Instructions to Pick Up Parking Pass (Please plan extra time to purchase your permit and to find parking.)
Parking for the James Bridges Theater, UCLA is available for $12 in Parking Structure 3. Public Transportation is available through Big Blue Bus, Culver City Bus, Metro

The UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy thanks the following co-sponsors for their generous support:

The UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
UCLA Luskin Lecture Series
The Office of Interdisciplinary and Cross-Campus Affairs, UCLA
The James Irvine Foundation, for support of the Urban Fellow-in-Residence Program
The Relational Poverty Network
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