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Journalist and author Eric Lichtblau will discuss his latest book, “American Reich: A Murder in Orange County, Neo-Nazis, and a New Age of Hate,” at the Jan. 28 Conversations on Race and Policing. The free program on Zoom kicks off the series’ spring 2026 slate.
Brianna Nofil, assistant professor of history at William & Mary, will discuss her book, “The Migrant’s Jail: An American History of Mass Incarceration,” at the Nov. 12 program, which will begin at noon on Zoom.
Cristina Mora, the Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley, will present “Normalizing Inequality: How Californians Make Sense of the Growing Divide,” at noon Thursday, Oct. 16, in person at CSUSB’s Faculty Center for Excellence.
Scheduled to present this month are Rahim Kurwa on Oct. 8, Stefan M. Bradley on Oct. 15, Alec Karakatsanis on Oct. 22, Menika Dirkson on Oct. 29, and Brianna Nofil on Nov. 12. All have recently published books on the topic of race and policing. The programs will be streamed on Zoom and are free and open to the public.
The donation by Anne and George Stoll, along with a $10,000 gift to the library’s Special Collections & University Archives — the largest monetary contribution in the department’s history — promises to enrich teaching and research at CSUSB well into the future.
To help kick off Hispanic Heritage Month on campus, the “Pop-Tart, Pop-In!” event at noon Monday, Sept. 15, will feature free copies — on first-come, first-served basis — of Julia Alvarez’s “How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents,” a novel that explores the lives of two sisters who emigrate from the Dominican Republic to New York.
The presentation, “Sexual Violence as a Pretext for Disposal: Rape, Race and Carcerality,” will take place at an earlier time, 10 a.m. Wednesday, April 30, on Zoom. The program is free and open to the public.
Simon Balto, a University of Wisconsin-Madison associate professor of history, is the author of “Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power.” His talk, free and open to the public, will begin at noon Wednesday on Zoom.