07/24/2025 Annual Business Meeting

Attendees: Raphia Mallick, Gunercindo Espinoza, Miltonette Craig, Amani Awwad, Olivia Perlow, Nicolas R. Howard, Hyeyoung Kwon, Nicolas Israel Juarez, Abass Muhammed, Marta Maldonado	

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The CRES business meeting took place on Thursday July 24th, 2025. The meeting was called to order by Marta at 1:02pm.

1. Intro
a. Marta welcomed attendees 

2. Marta reminded attendees about the 2025 conference theme and sponsored sessions       a. Sessions for this year’s meetings were named. 

? Session 039: Category Crisis: South Asian Immigrant Experiences in the US
? Session 002: The Perpetual Crisis of Mass Incarceration
? Session 012: Intersectionality in the Classroom: Theory and Practice
? Session 047: Reparations, Reckoning, and Regeneration from Global and Local Contexts
? Sessions 053 and 080: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Right to Resist I & II- Insurgent Counter-Hegemony and Agency of the Unapologetic, Emancipatory, Revolutionary, and Transformative Kinds
? Session 087: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Resistance on College Campuses
Marta exhorted everyone to attend these sessions and thanked the organizers for their work this year.
3. Presentation of division’s proposed budget, discussion of SSSP financial challenges and proposed solutions 
       a. The budget for next year remained similar to last year’s ($600)
b. SSSP Financial Challenges, Member Survey, and the proposals developed by various Task Forces. Marta agrees to share with members the notes shared after Council of Divisions meeting
4. Brainstorm topics for 2026 sessions 
a. Brainstorming for our next year's sessions was conducted after a discussion of next year’s meeting theme “Resisting Colonization of Lifeworlds”. Below are some of the themes that emerged:
* Amani suggests two possibilities: A session on the ongoing attacks on trans athletes (Discuss/develop explicit link with race/ethnicity), with Sports Division? A session focused on how to deal with attacks to DEI in Higher Education in our teaching… de-escalation and non-violent strategies, co-sponsored with Educational Problems Division.
* Raphia suggests Beyond the Colonial Rule: Coloniality, Race and Caste in the Present
* Gunercindo suggests a session on the social consequences of the ending affirmation action and attacks on DEI programs within social insitutions, co-sponsored with Law & Society Division.
* Nicolas Juarez suggests a session focused on the selling of federal lands, new forms of dispossession, and the spectacular nature of racialization they entail. Racial capital, the centering of the narrative of race as an explicitly economic question. 
Everyone who shared ideas was willing to follow up to develop fuller session proposals. Abbas Muhammad said he’s willing to support the Division in any way needed, maybe as /presider/discussant in a session?

5. Marta thanked the award committee chairs and members and introduced the 2025 award recipients:
a. Student Paper Award winner: Alize Hill.” Complicating Conceptualizations Of Anti-Racism Within The Abolition Movement Through Monoracism And Black/White Multiraciality."
b. Kimberlé Crenshaw Outstanding Article Award: Malone Gonzales, Shannon, Shantel Gabriel Buggs and J’Mauri Jackson. (2024).  “Mourning for Strangers: Black Women, Sequelae, and the Digital Afterlife of Police Violence.” Feminist Criminology, 20(2): 132-162, https://doi.org/10.1177/1557085124125
c. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Outstanding Book Award: Hyeyoung Kwon. Language Brokers: Children of Immigrants Translating Inequality and Belonging for Their Families. Stanford University Press. 

Hyeyoung was present and conveyed her gratitude to the Committee and noted the longstanding influence of EBS’ work on her work. Marta congratulated all the winners.

The meeting was adjourned at 1:55pm.