Division of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Annual Business Meeting Minutes 


Co-Chairs: Amani Awwad, Rahsaan Mahadeo, and Watoii Rabii


Members in attendance:


Jason Smith, Raphila Mallick, Lisa Covington, Annie Ferguson, Peter Kent-Stoll, Michell Jacobs,Leia Belt, and Barbara (add the last name).


The CRES business meeting took place on Wednesday July 26th, 2023. The meeting was called to order by Rahsaan at 2:02 pm.


1. Intro (10 minutes)
1. Rahsaan welcomed the new incoming -Co-chair-Dr. Awwad.
2. Attendees were asked to introduce themselves and their affiliations. 


       2.  Watoii provided a reminder about this year’s conference theme and sponsored sessions (5  
            minutes)


1. Sessions for this year’s meetings were discussed. 


               CRES Sponsored
   1. We are here because you were/are there! Race and (im)migration
   2. When the “Scholar Denied” becomes the Scholar Admitted: Critiques and counternarratives to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) regimes
   3. Race and Politics 


                 Co-sponsored 
   4. Decolonizing Global health care systems and health care delivery.
   5. Race and the Environment: Critical Reflections on Environmental Justice?
   6. "Nothing About Us, Without Us, Is For Us," critical disability studies, and race (or intersectional considerations?)
   7. Addressing Institutional Racism and Sexism in Higher Education
   8. The academy to police academy pipeline


       3.    Discuss division’s proposed budget (5 minutes)
1. The budget for next year was discussed.
2. Further, suggestions were discussed regarding funding opportunities to beef up our budget. 
        4.    Brainstorm topics for next year’s sessions  (10 minutes)
1. Brainstorming for our next year's sessions was conducted after a discussion of next year’s meeting theme “Toward a Sociology of Violence. Below are some of the themes:
* Violence as a dynamic. Curricular violence (i.e.bans)
* Cracking down on DEI and CRT
* Digital sociology, AI, and technology
* Violence as a dynamic
* Epistemological research
* Epistemological and ontological violence within social sciences
* Concurring uses of violence
* Social foundations of violence
* Legalized violence and state-sanctioned violence
* AAPI hate crimes
* Digital Imperialism
* Digital and knowledge divides
* Corporate interests in co-opting digital talents of Black and Brown youth
* Revolution, not repetition/replication
* Creating technologies that reproduce servitude
* Violence within anti-racist social movements
* Contesting narratives in the Arab-Israeli-Palestinian conflict


      5. Awards (10 minute)


1. Award recipients were announced.
   1. Graduate Student Paper Award 
Winner: Olivia Y. Hu "Let’s Talk About Race, Baby: How Interracial and Interethnic Relationships Affect East Asian Women’s Racial Ideologies” 
   2. Kimberlé Crenshaw Outstanding Article Award
Winner: Shannon Malone Gonzalez and Faith M Deckard. 2022. “We Got Witnesses” Black Women’s Counter-Surveillance for Navigating Police Violence and Legal Estrangement,” Social Problems.
   3. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Outstanding Book Award  
Winner: Nadia Kim. 2021. Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA
The meeting was adjourned at 3:01 pm.