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• ‘Sometimes Race Is a Veil’: Professor Nathalie Etoke Interrogates the Notion of Race in ‘Shades of Black’

  

  Nathalie Etoke

  Identity is a living experience and an ever-evolving process, says Professor Nathalie Etoke. Read more

• Jacqueline Woodson on Writing ‘Another Brooklyn,’ a ‘Record’ of the Bushwick She Knew

  Poet and author ​Jacqueline Woodson spoke about her writing process and her latest novel, "Another Brooklyn." Read more

• Women’s History Month Books Guide: 10 Great Reads by Graduate Center Faculty and Alumni

  

  Books by Graduate Center faculty and alumni.

  From Georgia O'Keeffe to the ERA, here are some great books for Women's History Month.  Read more

• Punk’s Roots in the Blues: New Book by Alum Looks at How the Genre Was Shaped by Changing Ideas About Race

  

  Punk music album covers and the cover of alumnus Evan Rapport's book, "Damaged: Musicality and Race in Early American Punk"

  Alumnus Evan Rapport's book explores punk’s debt to what many might consider an unconnected genre, the blues, and the ways that punk emerged during the turbulence of the 1960s and 1970s.  Read more

• ‘Over-Policed and Under-Protected’: Michael Fortner on How to Safeguard Black Communities

  

  Michael Fortner

  Professor Michael Fortner spoke to The Graduate Center about the criminal justice system, Black Lives Matter, and his family’s own experience with the criminal justice system and as victims of crime.  Read more

• Professor Tanisha C. Ford on Dressed in Dreams, Her Memoir of a Life in Fashion, and Its Pending Adaptation for the Screen

  

  Professor Tanisha C. Ford (Photo credit Darcy Rogers)

  Ford discusses her acclaimed book, her writing process, new projects, and why she joined The Graduate Center. Read more

• Laura Limonic, Sociology Alum, on ‘Kugel and Frijoles’ and Latino Jewish Identity

  

  Alumna Laura Limonic and the cover of her book, Kugel and Frijoles (Photo courtesy of Limonic)

  Now a tenured professor at SUNY Old Westbury, Limonic turned her dissertation into an award-winning book. Read more

• Why ‘Queering Law and Order’ Is Urgent

  

  Kevin Nadal

  Professor Kevin Nadal talks about his latest book, which looks at how the criminal justice system has treated LGBTQ people, including LGBTQ people of color, and the consequences. Read more

• Emily Drabinski on Leading the Library During a Pandemic and on Social Justice

  

  Emily Drabrinski (Credit: Alex Irklievski/The Graduate Center)

  Emily Drabinski, interim chief librarian, speaks about the resources available to researchers, the library’s commitment to social justice, and how much she’s looking forward to leaving her home office and returning to the Mina Rees Library. Read more

• Exploited Citizens: The Puerto Ricans Who Migrated to Grow Our Food

  

  Chartered flight with Puerto Rican migrant farmworkers, circa 1948. Courtesy of the Records of the Migration Division, Archives of the Puerto Rican Diaspora, Centro de Estudios Puertorriquenos, Hunter College, CUNY.

  Professor Ismael García-Colón had family members who came to the U.S. to harvest produce. His new book reveals the contributions and the mistreatment of Puerto Rican farm laborers. Read more