The Department of Sociology & Anthropology invites you to join us for the next discussion of our fall series, “Race and Immigration Status in Warehouse Labor” on Thursday, October 1 at 4pm. We encourage SoAn majors, minors, and alums to attend, along with anyone interested in sociological and anthropological perspectives on race.
Jason Struna will lead a discussion of the ways that race, gender, employment, and immigration status collude to create exploitative conditions for workers in the sprawling warehouse and logistics industry in Southern California. You can read an article on “The Matrix of Exploitation” by Struna and coauthors in the Journal of Labor and Society here.
If you’d like to join the conversation, please RSVP here: https://forms.gle/MbX6GDSweS3zkXyV7 to receive the Zoom link.
We’ll send a reminder email to everyone who registers on the day of the event. Please forward this invitation far and wide!
Some questions to consider for this discussion include:
- What does intersectionality mean to you?
- How can different inequalities, modes of oppression, or social difference manifest in different ways in different contexts?
- Why can two workers doing the exact same job with the same skills, experience, and capacities be paid strikingly different wages?
- What are the most effective ways to overcome inequalities and inequities in various forms—especially in workplaces?
The Department of Sociology and Anthropology is committed to promoting the values of diversity, equity, and human rights and to confronting racism in our fields of research, our institution, and our classrooms.
As part of these efforts and to support our students, colleagues, and communities, we are undertaking a series of discussions in the Fall, 2020 semester, to explore anthropological and sociological perspectives on race and ethnicity, constructions and experiences of race and racism, and efforts to confront structural formulations of white supremacy. The series will also explore the ways these categories intersect with other social cleavages and dimensions of inequality, including gender, sexuality, citizenship, education, health, and social class.
Discussions will be led by department faculty members in collaboration with SoAn majors and minors to build conversation within and beyond the SoAn Department. The series is open to all in the Puget Sound community and will be held on Zoom semi-weekly on Thursdays at 4PM (see below for a detailed schedule). Details and readings will be emailed and posted on our series page a week before each discussion.
You can read more about the series and the SoAn Antiracism Initiative here.
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