Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies

April 16th – April 29th Welcome Message Welcome to this week’s installment of the CRES News Digest. The CRES Student Research and Creativity Symposium and Spring Banquet was held on Monday, April 15th. Click on the link to see the faculty, staff, and student award winners! If you are looking for volunteer opportunities, Harmony Science… Read more »

2019 Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies Student Research and Creativity Symposium The CRES Student Creativity and Research Symposium was held on Monday, April 15th at the Dee J. Kelley Alumni and Visitor’s Center. Undergraduate and graduate students competed in four categories: Creativity, Undergraduate Research, Graduate Research, and Community Engagement.     We would like to… Read more »

April 2nd – April 16th Welcome Message Welcome to this week’s installment of the CRES News Digest.   This week, we want to encourage you to attend our inaugural CRES Student Research and Creativity Symposium and our CRES Spring Banquet. Everyone who is part of the CRES community, Core, Associated, Supporting Faculty and Staff, as well… Read more »

March 19th – April 1st Welcome Message Welcome to this week’s installment of the CRES News Digest. This week we have a blog post from CRES students who just came back from this year’s TCU Justice Journey, which explored Chicana/o civil rights history. Please note the CRES Colloquium, which continues this week on the subject… Read more »

We started this trip armed with knowledge, feeling empowered, and ready to meet the legends of the Chicano Movement from our books. It isn’t every day that you get to meet people that were a part of history in a big way, especially those who have been erased from “American” history textbooks. We got to… Read more »

  Emily Farris, assistant professor of political science, co-authored with Mirya Holman (Tulane University) an article in The Washington Post in The Monkey Cage, a compelling forum to connect political scientists and political conversation. In “Sheriffs are enthusiastic about enforcing U.S. immigration law. That makes a big difference.,” Farris and Holman shared their research that shows that sheriffs matter… Read more »

Max Krochmal, associate professor of history and director of Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies, has received the Frederick Jackson Turner Award for the author of a first scholarly book dealing with some aspect of American history for his book, Blue Texas: The Making of a Multiracial Democratic Coalition in the Civil Rights Era (University of North Carolina Press)…. Read more »

Max Krochmal (History) will speak today at the Southern Historical Association’s 83rd Annual Meeting in Dallas, Texas. His lecture “Toward a Blue Texas: Community Organizing and Coalition-Buildling, Past, Present, and Future”, focuses on the changing political demographics in Texas. Krys Boyd of KERA’s Think will host the opening plenary. Professor Krochmal will also be appearing… Read more »

Dr. Darren J. N. Middleton was recently invited to present The Pearl Blizek Lecture on Religion and Art to the Black Studies and Religious Studies programs at the University of Nebraska Omaha. The lecture explored the aesthetic dimensions of black somebodiness in Rastafari religious art, using the music of Tarrus Riley, the paintings of Ras Terms, and the novels of… Read more »

Reposted from NBC DFW TCU is working to make its student body more diverse. Last year, a group of students sent a demand letter calling on administrators to make the campus more inclusive. In response, the University added a “cabinet-level” diversity official and now for the first time, students can enroll in a new major called… Read more »