(NAME-MCE) Upcoming Diversity Conferences

Tue Mar 6 10:04:57 EST 2007

Upcoming Diversity Conferences

March 31, 8:30 am – 6 pm   
1st Annual Northeast Student Diversity Leadership Conference
Sage College of Albany, Albany, NY
Kahl Campus Center
College students from all over the Northeast will come to hear workshops given by diversity experts, professors, and students about diversity and leadership.  Full day of fun, food and facts.

April 11, 8:30 am – 4:30 pm 
1st Annual Successful Women of Color Conference 
Russell Sage College, Troy, NY
Bush Memorial
Professionals and college students are invited to attend a conference where Asian American, African American and Hispanic women discuss issues about their family and career lives.

Spread the word to all your friends and colleagues. Check out our website for more information about these 2 conferences at www.sage.edu/current/diversity.  For additional information, contact Michelle Lawson, Director of Cultural Enrichment and Diversity, The Sage Colleges at (518) 244-6891 or lawsom1 at sage.edu.

Michelle Lawson
Director of Cultural Enrichment and Diversity
The Sage Colleges 
45 Ferry Street
Troy, NY 12180
(518) 244-6891

Visit our Diversity Calendar to find out about current Capital Region multicultural events.  

Visit The Sage Colleges employment page to find out about current faculty and staff 
employment opportunities.

“We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.”
- Maya Angelou 

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Today's Topics:  

1. Re: Children's book - poll (Andrew Jackson)  
2. A Campus Event (Bertha Mo)  
3. Re: Children's Books Poll: Results (Paul C. Gorski)  
4. Re: Yolen's book (Cindy Lutenbacher)  
5. East-West Center Opportunity (Anselmo Villanueva)  
6. American Indian - Dads and Daughters Survey (Paul C. Gorski)  

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Message: 1  
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 14:16:20 -0500  
From: Andrew Jackson  
Subject: Re: (NAME-MCE) Children's book - poll  
To: NAME-MCE - National Association for Multicultural Education Email  
Discussion Group , ,  
"'NAME-MCE - National Association for Multicultural Education  
EmailDiscussion Group'"  
Cc: ddh2 at psu.edu, tdy1 at psu.edu, jmm5 at psu.edu  
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I'll see if my colleagues in Early Childhood agree.  

At 11:26 AM 3/4/2007, Paul C.Gorski wrote:  

>Thanks Debbie.  
>  
>One reason I'm doing these polls is to look closely at what people are  
>recommending. This is exactly the kind of dialogue I was hoping would  
>emerge.  
>  
>And this is particularly an issue with what people call "multicultural  
>children's literature"--a term that seems to be used whenever a book  
>includes at least one character who isn't a white male, regardless of the  
>content of the story or the way the characters are portrayed. And it's very  
>difficult to find young children's books that do anything beyond  
>"appreciating difference," often in a stereotypical way.  
>  
>Paul  
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>-----Original Message-----  
>From: name-mce-bounces at nameorg.org [mailto:name-mce-bounces at nameorg.org] On  
>Behalf Of Debbie Reese  
>Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2007 11:19 AM  
>To: name-mce at nameorg.org  
>Subject: (NAME-MCE) Children's book - poll  
>  
>  
>  
>  
>I don't like Peter Spier's PEOPLE because it exoticizes everyone in the  
>world, especially people of color, while making white America seen quite the  
>norm, quite natural.  
>  
>AMAZING GRACE is also problematic, in that it shows a stereotypical American  
>Indian (Grace in headdress, arms crossed in stoic Indian theme).  
>  
>KNOTS ON A COUNTING ROPE is messed up in several ways. For example, the Hopi  
>Indian people are shown wearing traditional clothing to watch a horse race,  
>as though that were everyday wear.  
>  
>I don't know the Douglas Wood book on the list, but Wood's other books on  
>American Indians are not recommended.  
>  
>If you're looking for book about American Indians, please visit my site:  
>http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com  
>where you can see my lists of books, plus links to articles on this topic.  
>  
>Debbie  
>Debbie A. Reese, (Namb? Pueblo)  
>Assistant Professor  
>American Indian Studies  
>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  
>1206 West Nevada  
>Urbana, IL 61801  
>  
>Email: debreese at uiuc.edu  
>  
>Internet Resource & Blog: American Indians in Children's Literature, located  
>at http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com  
>  
>UIUC's Native American House http://www.nah.uiuc.edu  
>TEL 217-265-9870  
>FAX 217-265-9880  
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Message: 2  
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 12:41:47 -0500 (EST)  
From: Bertha Mo  
Subject: (NAME-MCE) A Campus Event  
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Message: 3  
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 11:59:19 -0600 (CST)  
From: "Paul C. Gorski"  
Subject: Re: (NAME-MCE) Children's Books Poll: Results  
To: "NAME-MCE - National Association for Multicultural Education Email  
Discussion Group"  
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Mark,  

Yes. Nicely said. In fact, it would be great if whoever is familiar with  
children's books could go through the list and mention some of the books  
you've found problematic. This is a desperately needed conversation in  
relation to "multicultural" children's literature.  

Paul  
>  
>  
>  
> I am not a big fan of Encounter either. When I finish reading the book I  
> think to myself, "If only the Native Americans had listened to the boy.  
> All  
> would be saved!" The Taino are blamed for being colonized by their  
> failure to  
> listen to the boy and his dream/vision. Once again, the victims are  
> blamed  
> for their demise not because of colonization but by their failure to act.  
> I am  
> not sure Jane Yolan is an "authentic" voice.  
> Mark  
>  
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Message: 4  
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 15:05:30 -0500  
From: Cindy Lutenbacher  
Subject: Re: (NAME-MCE) Yolen's book  
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>From Children's Literature re Encounter:  

"This children's picture book tells about the encounter of the Taino  
people with Columbus. The story is told from the point of view of a  
small Taino boy frightened by three dream birds who come to him in  
sleep. When he wakes, he finds three "great canoes" anchored off the  
shores of his island and tries to warn his chief. He is ignored and  
the strangers are welcomed, much to everyone's eventual sorrow. Yolen  
may believe that she envisioned life through the eyes of a Taino boy,  
but the feelings she attributes to him run counter to Taino society.  
To explain why the boy is ignored, she repeats five or six times, "I  
was but a child." This makes the story gain power, but it is based on  
a European, not an Indian model of society. Indian society is built  
on mutual respect. Yolen's word choices are another slap in the face.  
She talks of how the Indians "gave" their souls, or "took" European  
words, as if the victims were to blame. Encounter may have been  
well-intentioned, but I wonder why it wasn't reviewed before  
publication by an organization familiar with the culture, such as  
OYATE. The book is an overly-sentimental, off-kilter story and one  
more betrayal to Native people. Its half-truths make it more  
insidious than books that have obvious misrepresentations."  

Cindy Lutenbacher  
Morehouse College  

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Message: 5  
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 12:29:37 -0800  
From: "Anselmo Villanueva"  
Subject: (NAME-MCE) East-West Center Opportunity  
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Please contact the East-West Center directly if you are interested.  

TRAVEL AND TEACH: CAMBODIA and THAILAND  

Program Dates: July 1 ? 25, 2007  

The East-West Center's "Travel and Teach" program offers U.S. teachers  
the opportunity to develop meaningful real-life connections to world  
cultures, religions, economies, ecologies, and more through  
experiential professional learning, enriched by one-on-one  
interactions with people in local communities.  

The 2007 "Travel and Teach" itinerary provides knowledge-enhanced  
immersion experiences in Cambodia and Thailand. The program takes a  
multifaceted approach to exploring the incredible diversity of  
Southeast Asia, as exemplified by Thailand and Cambodia, while  
enabling participants to make "connections" between these two  
societies/cultures.  

Application deadline is April 15, 2007.  

Questions? Applications?  

Please contact the East-West Center directly:  
SteinemN at EastWestCenter.org or visit the  
http://education.eastwestcenter.org/asiapacificed/APED/2007programs.htm  
website.  

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Message: 6  
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 16:50:35 -0600 (CST)  
From: "Paul C. Gorski"  
Subject: (NAME-MCE) American Indian - Dads and Daughters Survey  
To: jengoepfert at hotmail.com, mcp at edchange.org, name-mce at nameorg.org  
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FYI...  

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Subject: AI-DADS Research Study Announcement  
From: "Reinhardt,Martin"  
Date: Mon, March 5, 2007 16:44  
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Please forward, display, and publish as appropriate. The AI-DADS flyer  
is in MS Publisher format.  

Research Study Announcement  

Colorado State University  

TITLE OF STUDY: American Indian - Dads and Daughters Survey (AI-DADS)  

Principal Investigator: Dr. Irene Vernon, 970-491-2642,  
IRENE.VERNON at COLOSTATE.EDU  

CO-Principal Investigator: Dr. Martin Reinhardt, 303-623-5531,  
MARTINR at CAHS.COLOSTATE.EDU  

This study is being conducted in partnership between the Interwest  
Equity Assistance Center (IEAC) and the Center for Applied Studies in  
American Ethnicity (CASAE) at Colorado State University. Our advisory  
group for this study is composed of members of the IEAC American Indian  
Advisory Council, and Joe Kelly of the Dads and Daughters organization.  

We are requesting your assistance in recruiting American Indian fathers,  
step-fathers or adoptive-fathers, 18 years or older, of at least one  
American Indian daughter to participate in this study by filling out a  
paper based, or web-based, copy of the AI-DADS. A recruitment flyer is  
attached to this announcement for public posting.  

Very little research based data currently exists regarding the  
relationships between American Indian fathers, step-fathers, and  
adoptive-fathers and their American Indian daughters. The purpose of  
this study is to collect information about those relationships and the  
data will be compared with results of a 2004 Roper Poll conducted on  
behalf of Dads and Daughters organization that focused on fathers in  
general.  

This study is being conducted both on-site and on-line. The paper based  
survey will be administered at various conferences/meetings by the  
primary or co-primary investigator. The web-based survey will be  
available by clicking on the AI-DADS link at  
http://www.colostate.edu/programs/EAC/  
All participants are required  
to read a consent form and check a box if they agree to allow their  
survey to be used in this study.  

There are 50 questions that will take an estimated 15-30 minutes to  
answer. Participants can begin the survey at any time, and if they do  
not complete it, they are able to save it and come back later to finish.  
The survey will be available for a period of 30 days once participants  
sign-in for the first time. Once they complete the web-based survey and  
hit the submit button, the survey will no longer be available. All  
surveys must be completed by June 15, 2007 by 12pm Mountain Time.  

Miigwech (Thank you),  

Martin Reinhardt, Ph.D.  
Research Associate  
Interwest Equity Assistance Center  
Colorado State University  
410 Seventeenth Street, Suite 1690  
Denver, Colorado 80202  
(303) 623-5531  
Cell: (720) 209-5190  
Fax: (303) 623-9023  
martinr at cahs.colostate.edu  
http://www.colostate.edu/programs/EAC/  

"What is called education today was, for American Indians, a journey for  
learning to be fully human. Learning about the nature of the spirit in  
relationship to community and the environment was considered central to  
learning the full meaning of life" (Cajete, 1994).  

--  
Paul C. Gorski  
EdChange Workshops & Consulting: http://www.EdChange.org  
Multicultural Pavilion: http://www.EdChange.org/multicultural  
Social Justice Store: http://www.cafepress.com/edchange  
Multicultural Poster Store: http://www.EdChange.org/posters  
Social Justice Bookstore: http://www.EdChange.org/transformations  
Personal Page: http://home.earthlink.net/~gorski  
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