(Name-mce) ListServ Race and Pedagogy Conference September 14-16 Tacoma WA

[Villanueva Anselmo]

I've posted some information below about our plenary speakers for the upcoming Race and Pedagogy Conference at the University of Puget Sound in September. In addition to the Cornel West lecture on 9/14 preceding the conference, we're honored to have plenary lectures by Professor Lucius Outlaw, Beverly Daniel Tatum, and Robert Moses. These three events are only $10 each and are open to the public--tickets are first come, first serve. Please let me know if you have questions about the conference, or if you would like me to send you flyers for the events in .pdf format 

Thanks for your help in spreading the word!

--Tamiko

 

Tamiko Nimura

Assistant Professor, English and African American Studies

tnimura at ups.edu <javascript:main.compose('new','t=tnimura at ups.edu')> 

 

 

Lucius Turner Outlaw 

Educating for Ignorance:  Race and Social Ordering 

Friday, September 15, 11:30 a.m. 

University of Puget Sound Fieldhouse 

A profound teacher, researcher, and author, Outlaw's books include On Race and Philosophy and Critical Social Theory in the Interests of Black Folk. He currently serves as Professor of Philosophy and African American and Diaspora Studies at  Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. 

 

Beverly Daniel Tatum 

Connecting the Dots: Race, Expectations, and Achievement 

Friday, September 15, 4 p.m. 

University of Puget Sound Fieldhouse 

Scholar, teacher, author, administrator, and race relations expert, Beverly Daniel Tatum is the ninth president of Spelman College and the author of Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race. Tatum is a clinical psychologist whose areas of research interest include black families in white communities, racial identity in teens, and the role of race in the classroom. For more than 20 years, Tatum has taught a course on the psychology of racism. She has also toured extensively, leading workshops on racial identity development and its impact in the classroom. 

 

Robert P. Moses 

Quality Public School Education as a Civil Right 

Saturday, September 16, 10:45 a.m. 

University of Puget Sound Fieldhouse 

Moses was a pivotal organizer for the civil rights movement as a field secretary for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and was director of SNCC's Mississippi Project. From 1969 to1976, he worked for the Ministry of Education in Tanzania, East Africa, where he was chairperson of the math department at the Samé school. Moses returned to the U.S. in 1976 to pursue doctoral studies in philosophy at Harvard. A MacArthur Foundation Fellow from 1982 to 1987, Moses developed the concept for the Algebra Project to improve educational access for inner city and rural poor students. Together with Algebra Project Inc. board member Danny Glover, Moses and others recently launched a national 

discussion calling for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution for Quality Public School Education as a civil right. 

 

Ticket details for all 3 events

$10 general public, per lecture; free with conference registration 

Register today! 

For a complete list of presentations, exhibits, performances, and public events, 

contact: 

www.ups.edu/rpc.xml 

253.879.3483 

 

 

Tamiko Nimura

Assistant Professor, English and African American Studies

tnimura at ups.edu <javascript:main.compose('new','t=tnimura at ups.edu')> 

 

Race & Pedagogy Conference Steering Committee

University of Puget Sound

Conference date: September 14-16, 2006

For more information about the conference, visit http:www.ups.edu/rpc.xml <http://www.ups.edu/rpc.xml>