CSER | Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race

Depicting Difference: Race and Ethnicity in Graphic Design, Illustration, and Comics

Join the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race (CSER) for Depicting Difference: Race and Ethnicity in Graphic Design, Illustration, and Comics. The panel will focus on racial and ethnic identity in graphic design, illustration, and comics, featuring artists and scholars who deal with visual representations of marginalized groups.

Antipodes: Gary Okihiro & Ethnic Studies

Join CSER for a gallery exhibition opening in celebration of the life and legacy of Gary Okihiro (1945-2024). Okihiro, a foundational scholar of Asian American and Ethnic Studies, served as the founding director of CSER from 1999 to 2007. This exhibit examines Okihiro’s life and scholarship, the history of CSER, and the future of Ethnic Studies.

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The Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race (CSER) is Columbia’s main interdisciplinary space for the study of ethnicity, race and indigeneity and their implications for thinking about culture, power, hierarchy, social identities, and political communities, in the U.S. and around the world.

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