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Angela
E. Oh
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The
Future Of Race Relations in America
Thursday, January 25, 2001
7:00p.m. Hall Auditorium, Oxofrd
Campus |
Angela E. Oh examines issues of race,
diversity and the future of American
society using her unique experiences
of growing up in Los Angeles, working
as a trial attorney, and advancing the
work of creative public, private, and
non-profit partnerships. Oh serves on
select commissions and boards, including
the California Commission on Access
to Justice, the Asian Pacific American
Women's Leadership Institute, and the
Western Justice Center Foundation. Over
the past ten years, she has worked several
business collaborations involving companies
such as Merrill Lynch, Southern California
Edison, Washington Mutual Bank and the
Lawyers Mutual Insurance Company.
Between June 1987 and July 1998, Oh
was a member of a prestigious Los
Angeles law firm that specialized
in trial advocacy. She became a named
partner in 1993. In June 1997, she
was appointed by President William
Jefferson Clinton to the President's
Initiative on Race. The experience
of working on the subject of racial
reconciliation with the White House
inspired Oh to focus on assisting
organizations and individuals to deepen
their understanding about today's
race relations issues, to create new
leadership strategies that improve
the quality of cross-racial/ethnic
partnerships, and to develop a new
language that recognizes and
incorporates the findings of current
research about race relations in
America. Her speeches and writings
reflect the opportunities and
challenges that diversity presents.
Oh's lectures have taken her into
both national and international arenas.
In the spring of 2000, Oh was appointed
the Chancellor's Distinguished
Fellow at the University of California,
Irvine. She is a graduate of
University of California, Los Angeles,
where she earned her Bachelor of
Arts and Master's degrees. her Juris
Doctorate is from King Hall, the
University of California Davis Law
School. In 1996, she was awarded the
Distinguished Alumni Award of King
Hall.
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William
Bowen
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The
Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences
of Considering Race in College and University
Admissions
Thursday, February 15, 2001
7: 00 p.m. Hall Auditorium
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Mr.
Bowen is President of the Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation, and will speak
about his book untitled The Shape of
the River: Long-Term Consequences of
Considering Race in College and University
Admissions. |
Neil
Foley
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"Beyond Black and White"
Thursday, March 8, 2001
7:00 p.m. Hall Auditorium |
Dr. Foley is an associate professor
in the Department of History and
American Studies, University of Texas,
Austin. He serves as a Research
Associate of the Center for Mexican
American Studies, UT Arlington, and
has previously served as Consulting
Director and Associate Director of
that agency. He has two forthcoming
publications "Closing the Back
Door
to Whiteness: Immigration and 'Racial
Hygiene' in Late Twentieth-Century
American West" in The Blackwell
Companion to the History of the American
West (Blackwell Press) and "Immigration
and Ethic Mexicans after 1960"
in
Columbia History of Latinos in the
United States, 1960 to Present
(Columbia University Press). Dr. Foley's
teaching fields of specialization
include: US history; twentieth-century
politics; Mexican Americans and the
American Southwest; Comparative race
relations, race and citizenship; Race
citizenship, and the national identity
in German and the U.S.; and Social
history of the American West and the
Spanish-Mexican Borderlands.
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Ruth
McRoy
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Racial
Identity Issues in Transracial
Adoptive Families
Thursday, April 19, 2001
7:00 p.m. Presser Hall |
Dr. McRoy is Distinguished Teaching
Professor, Director of the Center
for
Social Work research, and Ruby Lee
Piester Centennial Professor in
Services to Children and Families
in the School of Social Work and center
for African and African American Studies,
The University of Texas at
Austin. Her most recent publications
are entitled Adoption Policy, (in
press Georgetown University Press)
and Special needs adoptions: Practice
issues (Garland Publishing, NY 1999).
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