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Open Dialogue VI -A Symposium
on Cultural Diversity in the arts:
June 9-12, 1994 Columbus, Ohio
presented by
The Association of American Cultures
You are invited to participate in OPEN DIALOGUE VI ONLINE! This symposium
is organized by The Association of American Cultures (TAAC) through
technical assistance of Arts Wire, a project of the New York Foundation of
the Arts. Keynote speeches and summaries of panel discussions will be
broadcast on Arts Wire during the conference and will be available on Arts
Wire's gopher soon after.
"OPEN DIALOGUE VI" (OD6X) is the sixth edition a series of national
symposiums on cultural diversity in the arts. The purpose of the
Dialogues is to increase visibility of the issues and concerns of
culturally diverse arts programs and public arts policy in the United
States. These Dialogues are presented every two years by the Association
of American Cultures (TAAC).
The purpose of The Association of American Cultures is to encourage the
development, growth, and preservation of the arts among the various
American communities of color (including, but not limited to, African,
Asian, Native and Latin American). TAAC also encourages the growing public
awareness and appreciation for the contributions of culturally diverse
arts organizations and artists to American culture and to world culture.
Activities also include the creation and development of research,
communications, educational, networking programs and the sponsorship of
conferences and symposia to facilitate fundamental changes in the manner
in which the concerns of arts organizations and artists of color are
addressed.
OPEN DIALOGUE VI ONLINE is the first TAAC symposium to utilize the
electronic media to increase the visibility of cultural diversity in the
arts in America. Cultural diversity in the arts is a phrase used to
describe a new movement in America which advocates the retention of ethnic
cultural identity with all Americans. This symposium serves to educate,
inform and advocate the use of the arts as a tool for all people to take
pride in their cultural roots. Please share the information provided here
with others, and support those culturally diverse arts organizations in
your area with your membership and attendance. Its not about art, its
about the return of dignity and worth to all people of color.
We'd like to have your feedback and comments concerning some of the issues
that will be raised during panel discussions at the conference. Some of
the issues being discussed:
How do we define & address the crisis of diversity
Discipline Worktable-THEATER
Discipline Worktable-DANCE
Discipline Worktable-MULTI-ARTS
Discipline Worktable-LITERATURE
Discipline Worktable-MUSIC
Discipline Worktable-MEDIA
Discipline Worktable-FOLK ART
Discipline Worktable-VISUAL ARTS
Aids-Not an Open Dialogue
Technology and Color
Audience Development
Arts Education into the Community
Accessibility & American Disability Act (ADA)
Preservation of Our Cultures
Beyond Survival: A Call To Action
Voices from the Battlefront: A Global Perspective
Where are Tomorrow's Arts Administrators ?
Networks of Color
Imaging Our Culture
Disease of Racism & Anatomy of Denial
Current Cultural Development Asian American Community
If you believe there are specific issues that should be discussed or
information you would like to contribute to the dialogue in any of these
panels, please do so via email.
Our email address is:
email: OD6@tmn.com
Deadline: June 11, 1994
Louis LeRoy, Executive Director
Association of American Cultures
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-- ----------------------------- Art McGee [amcgee@netcom.com] ----------------------------- ************************************************************************** Subject: Race & Politics at APSA ConferenceCONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT ------------------------ Race and Politics Panels ------------------------ American Political Science Association 90th Annual Meeting New York City (New York Hilton) September 1-4, 1994
At this year's 1994 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), several panels will be devoted to the study of race, and to politics in African, Latino, Native and Asian American communities. If you're interested in attending, please contact the APSA at 1527 New Hampshire Ave. NW, Washington DC, 20036 * (202) 483-2512.
A brief sampling of these panels follows, beginning with a description of the roundtable I've organized. Hope to see you there (your online input is also appreciated!).
This is not an exhaustive list; with more than 600 panels, I've just sampled those which are most obviously related to race & politics. There are many others on urban politics, public policy, social and political theory, gay & lesbian politics, gender issues, Latin American and African studies, political participation, etc. which may be of interest to list subscribers. If you need more information, I encourage you to contact the APSA directly.
Tony Affigne Dept. of Political Science Providence College affigne@brownvm.brown.edu
------------------------------------------------- RACE AND POLITICS IN THE AMERICAS The Continuing Search for Theoretical Foundations (Friday, September 2, 3:30 p.m.) -------------------------------------------------
Panelists: Manning Marable, Columbia Univ. Dianne Pinderhughes, Univ. of Illinois Don Nakanishi, UCLA Carlos Munoz, Jr., Univ. of Calif. Berkeley John Mohawk, SUNY Buffalo Franke Wilmer, Montana State Univ. Anthony DeSales Affigne, Providence College Manuel Avalos, Arizona State Univ.-West Gerald R. Alfred, Concordia Univ.
During more than 500 years since the Arawak people of the Caribbean encountered Europeans sailing with Columbus, many of the most important transformations in American political life have been driven by conflicts over race. The continued importance of racial questions throughout the Western Hemisphere suggests that race relations in the most recent century--since Emancipation--still bear significant scars from the prior four centuries of racial dominance by Europeans and European Americans.
In those 400 years an array of political, military, religious, cultural, educational, and economic institutions--many of which still exist--was bent to the task of perpetuating racial stratification of life in the Americas. At the same time, the hemisphere's large non-European population has not been powerless. Extensive interracial contact and interaction have created a complex and distinct blend of political cultures, born in Europe, Africa, America itself, and Asia. Everywhere in the Americas--from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego--it is exactly this unique melding of multi-racial and multi-cultural influences which we typically mean when we talk about "American politics."
Scholars who study the political life of America's Native, African, Latino, and Asian American peoples, however, are often frustrated, personally and professionally, by the limitations of "normal" science in addressing questions of race and politics. In the field of political science, dominant conventional approaches including behavioral, structural, and political cultural analysis, have often produced de-racialized models of political action which systematically understate the potency of racial hierarchies, while locating both the oppression and the accomplishments of non-European Americans at the periphery of historical and explanatory accounts. Consensus on alternative theoretical and organizational approaches, however--while such alternatives clearly exist--has not yet emerged.
The primary purpose of this Roundtable is to help bring such alternatives into focus, with a discussion centered on the value of three key changes in conventional political scientific analysis of race and politics:
1) a broad historical context, beginning in 1492 (if not earlier); most accounts--and American Politics textbooks-- begin with 1776 2) an explicitly hemispheric frame of reference, recognizing common practices and institutions of racial dominance, in the past and in the present; Europeans and their white descendants have *never* been a population majority in the Americas as a whole 3) an openness to multidisciplinary research agendas and cross disciplinary theoretical constructions; no single social science discipline can claim to adequately describe or explain racial politics
The greatest promise of such "American," historical, multidisciplinary approaches is that they might structure on firmer theoretical grounds research efforts in which questions of race and power were no longer marginal subtexts, but were made central to the most accurate depictions and explanations of social and political power in the broader society.
------------------------------------------- Other Race and Politics Panels ------------------------------------------- THEORETICAL CONTROVERSIES IN URBAN POLITICS (Saturday, September 3, 10:45 am)
Authors/Panelists: Barbara Ferman, Temple Univ. William Grimshaw, Illinois Inst. of Technology Dianne Pinderhughes, Univ. of Illinois Rodolfo de la Garza, Univ. of Texas Rufus Browning, San Francisco State Univ. David Tabb, San Francisco State Univ. Dale Rogers Marshall, Wheaton College
------------------------------------------- THE POLITICS OF NEW IMMIGRANT GROUPS IN THE UNITED STATES (Saturday, September 3, 1:30 pm)
Authors/Panelists: Paula McClain, Univ. of Virginia Pei-te Lien, Univ. of Florida Louis DeSipio, Wellesley College Harry Pachon, Claremont Graduate School Michael Jones-Correa, Harvard Univ. John Pelissero, Loyola Univ. Chicago Timothy Krebs, Loyola Univ. Chicago John Garica, Univ. of Arizona
------------------------------------------------- ISSUES AND STRATEGIES IN TEACHING LATINO POLITICS (Friday, September 2, 10:45 am)
Authors/Panelists: Benjamin Marquez, Univ. of Wisconsin Anthony DeSales Affigne, Providence College Dario Moreno, Florida International Univ. Ronald Schmidt, Calif. State Univ., Long Beach
------------------------------------------- INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S POLITICS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE (Sunday, September 4, 8:45 am)
Authors/Panelists: Ted Robert Gurr, Univ. of Maryland Joanna Drzewienicki, State Univ. of New York, Buffalo Jennifer Arnott, Univ. of Ontario Greg Poelzer, Univ. of Northern British Columbia Gerald Alfred, Concordia Univ. Franke Wilmer, Montana State Univ.
--------------------------------------------- THE ROLE OF GENDER AND RACE IN PARTY POLITICS (Friday, September 2, 8:45 am)
Authors/Panelists: Linda Faye Williams, Univ. of Maryland Kenneth Williams, Michigan State Univ. Simeon Brodsky, Univ. of Pittsburgh David Brodsky, Univ. of Tennessee, Chattanooga Benjamin Marquez, Univ. of Wisconsin Toni-Michelle Travis, George Mason Univ. Mark Rozell, Mary Washington College Thomas Stewart, Society of Fellows
----------------------------------------------------- CONSTRUCTING TRIBAL IDENTITY WITHIN THE NATION STATE: INDIANS IN AMERICA (Sunday, September 4, 10:45 am)
Authors/Panelists: Anne McCulloch, Columbia College LaDonna Harris, Americans for Indian Opportunity Stephen Sachs, Indiana Univ. Ronald Steiner, Chapman Univ. Darryl Richardson, Chapman Univ. Paula Arledge, Northeast Louisiana Univ. David Wilkins, Univ. of Arizona Margaret Murdock, Univ. of Wyoming Michael Melody, Barry Univ.
--------------------------------- ETHNICITY, RACE, CONFLICT AND WAR (Thursday, September 1, 8:45 am)
Authors/Panelists: Deborah Ball, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory Allan Stam, American Univ. Sean Byrne, Syracuse Univ. Michael Gunter, Tennessee Tech Stuart Kaufman, Univ. of Kentucky
------------------------------------------ RACE, GENDER, AND THE POLITICS OF IDENTITY (Thursday, September 1, 8:45 am)
Authors/Panelists: Nancy Kwang Johnson, Cornell Univ. Jocelyn Sargent, Univ. of Michigan Gerard Bushell, Columbia Univ. Joseph Schwartz, Temple Univ. Abigail Spangler, Columbia Univ. James Jennings, Univ. of Massachusetts, Boston
----------------------------------------------- RECONCEPTUALIZING RACE AND POLITICS: MOVEMENTS, INSTITUTIONS AND COMMUNITIES (Thursday, September 1, 1:30 pm)
Authors/Panelists: Cathy Cohen, Yale Univ. Gerald Gamm, Univ. of Rochester Richard Valelly, Swarthmore College Mark Warren, Harvard Univ. Sylvia Tesh, Univ. of Michigan Bruce Williams, Univ. of Kentucky Michael Dawson, Univ. of Chicago
------------------------------------------------- AFRICAN-AMERICAN POLITICAL LEADERSHIP: CHALLENGES AND STRATEGIES (Thursday, September 1, 3:30 pm)
Authors/Panelists: Lucius Barker, Stanford Univ. Michael Preston, Univ. of Southern Calif. Cheryl Miller, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore Mack Jones, Prairie View A&M Univ. Georgia Persons, Georgia Inst. of Tech. Michael Combs, Univ. of Nebraska James Jennings, Univ. of Massachusetts, Boston
------------------------------------------------------- VOTING SYSTEMS, REDISTRICTING, AND THE REPRESENTATIONAL STYLES OF BLACKS AND WOMEN (Friday, September 2, 8:45 am)
Authors/Panelists: Twiley Barker, Jr., Univ. of Illinois, Chicago Kenneth Betsalel, Univ. of North Carolina, Asheville Dwight Mullen, Univ. of North Carolina, Asheville Sherral Brown-Guinyard, Univ. of South Carolina Katheleen Bratton, Univ. of North Carolina Kerry Haynie, Univ. of Pennsylvania Richard Clucas, Univ. of Wisconsin, Eau Claire David Lublin, Harvard Univ. Lisa Handley, Election Data Services
----------------------------- THE IMPACT OF MINORITY MAYORS (Friday, September 2, 1:30 pm)
Authors/Panelists: Georgia Persons, Georgia Inst. of Technology Robert Brown, Univ. of Michigan Rowan Miranda, Univ. of Pittsburgh Christopher Mobley, DePaul Univ. John Pelissero, Loyola Univ. Chicago David Holian, Loyola Univ. Chicago Basil Wilson, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
-------------------------------------------- RACE, CLASS AND PUBLIC POLICY: GOVERNING AND THE "UNDERCLASS" (Friday, September 2, 3:30 pm)
Authors/Panelists: Mitchell Rice, Louisiana State Univ. Yvette Alex, Indiana Univ. Susan Clarke, Univ. of Colorado Bradley Gitz, Lafayette College Robert Maranto, Lafayette College Todd Shaw, Univ. of Michigan Judity Russell, Barnard College
--------------------------------- RACE AND POLITICS IN THE AMERICAS (Friday, September 2, 3:30 pm)
>> See description above <<
-------------------------------- ETHNICITY AND RACE IN URBAN REGIMES (Saturday, September 3, 8:45 am)
Authors/Panelists: William Nelson, Jr., Ohio State Univ. Martin Gruberg, Univ. of Wisconsin, Oshkosh Sharon Wright, Univ. of Louisville Kimberly James, Univ. of Michigan Phil Thompson, Barnard College
--------------------------------------- THE POLICY AGENDAS OF BLACKS AND JEWISH AMERICANS IN THE 1990S (Saturday, September 3, 8:45 am)
Authors/Panelists: Michael Dawson, Univ. of Chicago R. Scott Cooley, Illinois State Univ. Terri Susan Fine, Univ. of Central Florida Andrea Simpson, Univ. of Washington Marcus Pohlmann, Rhodes College
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