University Scholar Series: Danelle Moon

Daily Life of Women During the Civil Rights Era On September 28, 2011, Danelle Moon spoke in the University Scholar Series hosted by Provost Gerry Selter at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library. Danelle Moon is the Director of Special Collections & Archives, a Full Librarian, and Adjunct Professor of History at SJSU. In this seminar, she talks about her book, Daily Life of Women During the Civil Rights Era, which looks at the variety of women\u27s experiences in promoting social justice and human rights into the United States from 1920 to the 1980s. It gives the audience a deeper understanding of the complexity of gender, class, and race in America.https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/uss/1009/thumbnail.jp

Difficult Dialogues: The Technologies and Limits of Reconciliation

Projects known as dialogue or reconciliation build on the common ground between members of historically adversarial groups to help overcome vicious cycles of retaliation. This chapter compares observations from two studies of religious and religio-ethnic communities. The more recent is a qualitative study of American Jews\u27 understandings and experiences of anti-Semitism and how it relates to politics, particularly around the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. It compares some of the findings from this study with findings that emerged in earlier ethnographic research on debates about homosexuality within the United Methodist Church. The chapter explores the intersection of politics with the self, which sociological theories of the self have generally ignored