Announcing the 22nd Annual California Studies Conference
"How Democratic is California?"
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Oakland Museum of California
Panels will include presentations on subjects such as:
- A Century of Progressivism: The Mixed Legacy of 1911
- The Underrepresented: People of Color in Electoral Politics
- Government by Proposition: More Harm than Good?
- It's All About the Money: The Corruptions of Public Finance
- The Decline of Public Education and the Erosion of Democracy
- Citizenship and its Discontents: Denial of Rights, from Japanese Internment to Anti-Terrorism
- Where is the Popular Protest? Grassroots Activism in Hard Times
- Popular Media Organizing: From Posters to the Blogisphere
Details and schedule forthcoming.
CSA thanks the California Council for the Humanities for funding to support documentation of this event.
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