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Tijuana
Jews
"Intersecting
Lives: Globalization is Diversity
in the 21st Century" Film
Festival
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Advertising
Missionaries
"In
Papua New Guinea, where over
three quarters of the population
cannot be reached by the regular
advertising mediums of television,
radio or print, "the market"
must be developed by other means.
Small
theater groups travel the remote
highlands performing soap operas
devised around advertising messages
for a variety of products.
Advertising Missionaries follows
the mission of one theater company
to
bring the consumer revolution
to the people of the highlands.
In bigger
and more modern towns, the company
plugs the qualities of farming
products or car parts. In the
more remote villages, a set
is unfolded on
the back of a flat-bed truck,
portraying a modern Western
living-room
where the advantages of Coca-Cola,
Colgate, clothing, canned food,
and
washing powder are touted. The
film observes the impact of
the
advertising theater on a previously
"untouched" village
in the remote
valley of Yaluba, where it enters
the lives of Aluago, Tintiba
and their
two children. We see the village
before, during and after first
contact
by the new missionaries -- and
what happens as a result of
their
visit" (http://www.frif.com/new97/advertisi.html)
*Topics:
"bringing the global to
the local", commodification,
advertising, creating markets
Darwin's Nightmare
"In
the 1950s or 1960s, the Nile
perch was released into the
Lake
Victoria. In just a few decades,
the large, voracious predator
has all
but eliminated the other species
of fish, turning the lake into
an
ecological wasteland. "But
economically, it's good"
-- and indeed, perch
fillet is Tanzania's best selling
export to Europe. Fishermen,
factory
workers, civil servants, pilots
of cargo aircrafts, delegates
of the
European Commission, communities
living around Lake Victoria:
plenty of
people are involved in some
way in this new industry. But
if Africa
exports hundreds of tons of
premium-priced fish each day,
what exactly
do Africans get in return?"
Summary written by Eduardo Casais
{casaise@acm.org}
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424024/plotsummary]
*Topics: globalization and ecology,
arms trade, HIV Aids, bringing
the local to the global, bringing
the global to the local
For more
information:
http://www.coop99.at/darwins-nightmare
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424024
Dangerous
Living
This film "is the first
documentary to deeply explore
the lives of gay
and lesbian people in non-western
cultures. Traveling to five
different
continents, we hear the heartbreaking
and triumphant stories of gays
and
lesbians from Egypt, Honduras,
Kenya, Thailand and elsewhere,
where most occurrences of oppression
receive no media coverage at
all. By sharing the personal
stories coming out of developing
nations, Dangerous Living sheds
light on an emerging global
movement striving to end
discrimination and violence
against gay, lesbian, bisexual
and transgendered people"
[http://firstrunfeatures.com/dangerousliving.html
]
Concepts: sexual orientation,
human rights, oppression, discrimination,
does globalization impose greater
restrictions on the expression
of sexual orientation or does
globalization allow for freer
expression? Why in some places?
Why not in others?
For more information:
http://www.afterstonewall.com/dangerous.html
Daughter of
Keltoum
"A young
woman, Rallia, raised in Switzerland,
travels to an isolated
and barren Berber settlement
located in the rocky Atlas Mountains
of
Algeria. Rallia's journey is
one of multi-tiered discovery
in terms of
her relationship to her extended
family, traditional Berber culture,
and
her desperate need to locate
her biological mother. Through
her eyes,
the viewer is immersed in a
world virtually untouched by
contemporary
society, one that still clings
to tribal mores and strict religious
codes of conduct. Mehdi Charef
skillfully captures the windswept
vistas of a faraway mountain
range with wide camera angles
that frame the harsh
environs and the desperate daily
search for water, the responsibility
of
the resilient women of the Berber
tribe"
[http://www.frif.com/new2005/dau.html]
Concepts: rural to urban migration,
North Africans to Europe migration,
traditional Islam vs. modernity,
females in Islam, Islamic terrorism,
bringing the global to the local
For more information:
http://www.globalfilm.org/film_library/daughter/daughter.html
"Dirty
Pretty Things"
"How
come I've never seen you before?"
demands the Englishman of Okwe(Chiwetel
Ejiofor), an illegal immigrant
from Nigeria living in London.
"Because we're the people
you do not see," replies
Okwe. It's the most
explicit statement in Dirty
Pretty Things, an intensely
political film
from veteran director Stephen
Frears (My Beautiful Laundrette,
Dangerous Liaisons, High Fidelity),
set in the confining and desolate
world of London's marginal inhabitants-the
ones who aren't supposed to
be there, whose every moment
of survival is a hard-won victory
in an endless
battle that often ends in deportation
or death. Did I say living in
London? Hiding out in London
is more like it. Okwe works
two job, dodges immigration
officers, and grabs a few hours'
rest anywhere he can, like in
the mortuary at the hospital
where his buddy Guo Yi (Benedict
Wong)
works as a porter. Okwe is a
doctor by training, but now
he's driving a
cab, and working the redeye
shift at the front desk of the
seamy Baltic
Hotel. Okwe shares a flat and
some kind of a bond with lovely
Senay
(Audrey Tautou), a young Turkish
illegal who makes beds and swabs
toilets at the Baltic, but there
is no time or energy for love
when you're trying just to get
from one day to the next. Okwe
keeps to himself and stays out
of other people's business,
but medical services are in
demand among the city's disenfranchised.
Other people's business tends
to come to him. One night, in
room 510 of the Baltic Hotel,
Okwe discovers something that
would make even David Lynch
queasy. The discovery draws
him from his everyday dangers
into deeper peril"
(http://www.aboutfilm.com/movies/d/dirtyprettythings.html
Concepts: commodification of
the body (organ harvesting),
illegal
immigration/guest workers, Europe's
new ethnic composition, nostalgic
For more information:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0301199/
In America
"An
aspiring Irish actor and his
family illegally immigrate in
the
United States with the dreams
of the father breaking into
the New York
City theatrical scene. Once
they arrive in the big city,
they move into a flop house
and try to make it truly their
home. While they struggle to
fit in their new country, the
family finds new friends like
the reclusive neighbor, Mateo,
who provide help in the most
unexpected ways in America"
Summary written by Kenneth Chisholm
(kchishol@rogers.com)
[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298845/plotsummary]
Concepts: Immigration, identity
(Irish), nostalgia/longing
For more information
http://www2.foxsearclhlight.com/inamerica
http://movie-reviews.colossus.net/movies/i/in_america.html
Bend It Like
Beckham
"Like
most everyone else in England,
Jess Bahmra (Parminder Nagra)
idolizes professional British
football player David Beckham.
But Jess is
different from most fans; she's
a talented player in her own
right.
Unfortunately, her traditional
Indian parents (Anupam Kher
and Shaheen
Khan) have other plans for their
youngest daughter. They expect
Jess to
follow in the footsteps of her
sister, Pinky (Archie Panjabi),
who is
preparing to marry in a traditional
Indian wedding. When Jess meets
Jules (Keira Knightley), who
plays for a local female football
team, she
pursues her own dream and begins
to play, keeping her participation
a
secret from her parents and
often leading to disastrous
results. To
complicate matters even more,
both Jess and Jules are enamored
with
their coach, Joe (Jonathan Rhys
Meyers). Ultimately, Jess has
to decide
whether to live life on her
terms or act in accordance with
her parents'
wishes. This charming coming-of-age
tale is also an intriguing look
at
Indian culture in England. Juliet
Stevenson is superb as Jules'
tarty,
ultra-feminine mother. BEND
IT LIKE BECKHAM is directed,
written, and produced by Gurinder
Chadha"
(http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1119809-bend_it_like_beckham/about.php)
Concepts: South Asian diaspora,
transnationalism, Western vs.
Eastern
(South Asian) values, feminism,
love
For more information
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286499/
http://www2.foxsearchlight.com/benditlikebeckham/
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Kamari
Maxine Clarke
Jorge
G. Castaneda
Teddy
Cruz
Paul
Stoller
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Suggested
readings:
Stranger in the Village of the
Sick: A Memoir of Cancer, Sorcery
and Healing (Beacon Press)
Arthur Frank’s The Wounded Storyteller
(U of Chicago Press) and Susan
Sontag’s classic, Illness as
Metaphor.
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Carnaval
in Rio
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For
more information :
Suggested Readings:
Raphael, Alison.
“From Popular Culture to Microenterprise:
The History of Brazilian Samba
Schools.” Latin American Music
Review 11 (1 (spring/summer)
1990): 73-83.
Philip Galinsky.
“C-option, Cultural Resistance,
and Afro-Brazilian Identity:
a History of the ‘Pagode’ Samba
Movement in Rio de Janeiro.”
Latin American Music Review
/ Revista de Música Latinoamericana
Vol. 17, No. 2 (Autumn, 1996),
pp. 120-149.
Robin E. Sheriff.
“The Theft of Carnaval: National
Spectacle and Racial Politics
in Rio de Janeiro.” Cultural
Anthropology > Vol. 14, No.
1 (Feb., 1999): 3-28
Philip Galinsky.
"Co-option, Cultural Resistance,
and Afro-Brazilian Identity:
A History of the 'Pagode' Samba
Movement in Rio de Janeiro."
Robin E. Sheriff. "The
Theft of Carnaval: National
Spectacle and Racial Politics
in Rio de Janeiro." Cultural
Anthropology Vol. 14, No. 1
(Feb. 1999): 3-28.
J. Lowell Lewis.
"Sex and Violence in Brazil:
Carnaval, Capoeira, and the
Problem of Everyday Life."
American Ethnologist > Vol.
26, No. 3 (Aug. 1999): 539-557.
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Michael
Blakey
Chinese
Golden Dragon Acrobats
Paul
Farmer
Evelyn
Hu-Dehart
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For
more information:
2005 Opium
and Social Control: Coolies
on the Plantation of Peru
and Cuba. Journal of Chinese
Overseas 1, 2: 169-183.
2002 Asian Women Immigrants
in the US Fashion Garment
Industry. Women and Work
in Globalising Asia, edited
by Dong-Sook S. Gills
and Nicola Piper, pp.
209-230. Routledge, New
York.
2002 Huagong and Huashang:
the Chinese Laborers and
Merchants in Latin America
and the Caribbean. Amerasia
Journal 28 (2): 64-90.
2000 Introduction, Asian
American Formations in
the Age of Globalization.
In Across the
Pacific: Asian Americans
and Globalization, edited
by Evelyn Hu-DeHart, pp.
1-27.
Temple University Press,
Philadelphia.
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Columbus'
failed search for a new route
to "Las Indias" might
have ended
up in the Americas, but shortly
after 1492, Spaniards did find
their way
to Asia and launched the global
Manila Galleon Trade that endured
for
250 years; along with all sorts
of luxury and consumer goods
that
flowed from Asia to Europe via
America came the first Asian
migrants to
Latin America. This migration
accelerated by the mid-19th
century when
Spanish (Cuban) and British
Caribbean and Peruvian plantation
owners
turned in desperation to Chinese
and East Indian coolies or contract
workers to supplement or replace
slave labor on their sugar estates.
By
the turn of the 20th century,
with the US barring most Asian
immigrants
from entry, Chinese and Japanese
migrants turned to Latin America
as
final destinations to create
new lives and livlihoods, producing
variations of race mixture and
hybridity in identity and cultural
expression. More recently, Koreans
have also found their way to
Latin
America, while Japanese Brazilians
and Japanese Peruvians have
embarked
on a return migration to their
ancentral homeland, Japan, for
factory
jobs and manual labor, similar
to the kind of work that, ironically,
had
attracted their forebears to
migrate to Latin American in
the first
place two or three generations
ago.
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Peter
Wells
Reza
Aslan
Héctor
Tobar
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The son of Guatemalan immigrants,
Héctor Tobar is a National Correspondent
for the Los Angeles Times and
was part of the writing team
that won a Pulitzer Prize for
coverage of the 1992 riots.
He holds an MFA from the University
of California at Irvine and
lives in Mexico City.
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Nicaraguan
Panel
Karen
Kupperman
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For suggested
readings, here is a list:
Robert Appelbaum
and John Sweet, editors, Envisioning
An English
Empire: Jamestown And The Making
Of The North Atlantic World,
Early
American Studies series (University
of Pennsylvania, 2005)
Frederick W. Gleach, Powhatan's
World and Colonial Virginia:
A
Conflict of Cultures, Studies
in the Anthropology of North
American
Indians Series (University of
Nebraska Press, 1997)
Karen Kupperman, The Jamestown
Project (Harvard University
Press,
2007)
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Kuiyi
Shen
|
Recommened
Reading:
A
century in crisis : modernity
and tradition in the art of
twentieth-century China
/ Julia F. Andrews and Kuiyi
Shen ; with essays by Jonathan
Spence ... [et al.] New York
: Guggenheim Museum : Distributed
by Harry N. Abrams, c1998
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HUMAN
RIGHTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE DAY at
Miami University
|
Proclamation
Multipurpose Rooms A and B,
Shriver Center
1:00 p.m. “Human
Rights and Social Justice Day
Proclamation”
Prue
Dana, Vice-Mayor,
City of Oxford
The
Address
Multipurpose
Rooms A and B, Shriver Center
1:15 p.m.
"The
Social Justice of Human Rights"
Steven
DeLue,
Senior Associate
Dean, College of
Arts and Science and Professor
of Political Science
Third
Annual Human Rights and Social
Justice Information Fair
Multipurpose Rooms A and B,
Shriver Center
9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
As an educational
opportunity, the Third Annual
Human Rights and Social Justice
Information Fair:
- joins forces with organizations
devoted to the elimination of
hunger, homelessness, poverty,
modern slavery,
forced migrations, physical
and mental abuse, ethnocide,
and genocide- to communicate
information that raises
awareness about human rights
and social justice efforts and
action in our communities and
around the world; and
- creates opportunities for
students and the large community
to be engaged on human rights
and social justice
networks and service programs
(volunteer programs, social
service programs, learning service
programs,
professional development programs
and others).
Come and join
us!
America
Second Harvest, Center for Holocaust
and Humanity Education, Miami
University Center for
Community Engagement in Over-the-Rhine,
Cultural Survival, Darfur Coalition,
Doctors Without Borders,
Family Resource Center, Greater
Cincinnati Coalition for the
Homeless, Hamilton Living Water
Ministry,
Hope House Rescue Mission, Hunger
Network in Ohio, MU Hillel,
Miami University's Office of
Community
Engagement and Service, Office
of Residency Life and Community
Development, Myaamia Project,
National
Center for Homeless Education,
OXFAM America, Planned Parenthood,
Pro-Choice Miami, Seva Foundation,
Students for Free Tibet, Students
for Peace and Justice, Teach
For America
Third
Annual Human Rights and Social
Justice Film Festival -
Multipurpose Room C, Shriver
Center
9:00 a.m. – 11:00
a.m. Turtles
Can Fly, 2005 - Kurdish
film with English subtitles
(98 minutes), Directed by Bahman
Ghobadi
Discussion led by Carl
Dahlman, Department
of Geography
Web link: http://www.users.muohio.edu/dahlmac/
11:30 a.m. – 1:00
p.m. "Peace,
propaganda and the promise land:
U.S. Media and the Israeli-Palestinian
Conflict" - In English
(80 minutes) Directed by Bathsheba
Ratzkoff and Sut Jhally. Discussion
led by Sahar
Qawasmi, Department of Architecture
and Interior Design
2:00 p.m. – 4:30
p.m. A
Peck on the Cheek, 2002,
Tamil film with English subtitles
(130 minutes), Directed by Mani
Ratnam
Discussion led by Srinivas Krishnan,
Artist in Residence, Center
for American and World Cultures
Special Presentations
- Multipurpose Room C, Shriver
Center
11:00 a.m.
– 11:30 a.m. “Miami’s Over-the-Rhine
Residency Program”
Thomas
A. Dutton,
Director, Center for Community
Engagement in Over-the-Rhine
Web links: http://www.fna.muohio.edu/cce/
http://www.fna.muohio.edu/otr/
1:30 p.m.
– 2:00 p.m. “Service Opportunities:
How Miami Students Can Get Involved”
Lauren
Spero, Community
Outreach Coordinator, Office
of Community Engagement and
Service
Web link: http://www.units.muohio.edu/saf/service/
Keynote- Multipurpose
Room C, Shriver Center
4:30 p.m. – 6:00
p.m. "Fighting for Justice
in a Changing World"
Xavier
Benavides, Training
and Outreach Coordinator, OXFAM
America
Web link: http://www.oxfamamerica.org/
Workshop - MacMillan
Hall, Room 212
9:30 a.m. – 11:00
a.m. "Creating a Campaign
for Social Justice"
Xavier
Benavides, Training
and Outreach Coordinator, OXFAM
America
Web link: http://www.oxfamamerica.org/
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William
Leap
Jan Gross
|
Close to
five million Polish citizens
lost their lives during Nazi
occupation, more than half of
them Polish Jews. Despite this
unprecedented calamity, Jewish
Holocaust survivors returning
to their
hometowns in Poland experienced
widespread hostility - including
murder
- at the hands of their neighbors.
How was such anti-semitism possible?
|
Robert
McRuer
Minxin
Pei
Daniel
Schowalter
 |
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Abstract
In 1987,
Senator Daniel K. Inouye introduced
a bill to authorize the National
Museum of the American Indian
(NMAI) and to establish a
memorial to the American Indian.
Later, Representative Ben Nighthorse
Campbell envisioned the museum
as a living memorial. In
2004, founding director W. Richard
West conceded that American
Indians "have not always
dwelt on the sunny hillsides
of
history." About a week
later, two days after the museum
had opened, President George
W. Bush declared that "the
sun is rising on Indian
country." Finally, American
Indian scholar-activist Ward
Churchill incurred wrath from
all sides when he characterized
9/11 victims as
"little Eichmanns."
These four
fragments highlight American
Indian visibility, memory, and
trauma and situate NMAI amidst
these tensions. Three questions
guide my presentation. First,
how can North American Indian
experiences and identities be
reimagined and rearticulated
within the
NMAI? Second, to what extent
can this museum function as
a case study for the complicated
relationship between visibility,
memory,
and trauma? And, third, to what
extent can this case study provide
a theoretical model for visual
representations and discussions
of
traumatic histories?
|
African
Childrens Choir
Pieces
of Power Symposium
Cecelia Cutler
Thomas
George Caracas Garcia
|
Popular music
in the Andes has for many years
been dominated by bands of panpipes,
reed flutes, and guitars performing
music for local consumption.
Many of the poor youth of the
region, a majority of whom are
of mestiço or Indian heritage,
found music as a means by which
to express themselves, generally
for local or regional audiences.
In recent years, however, Andean
bands have expanded into the
international market, reflecting
the tendency towards globalization
of popular and ethnic music
in general. Today it is possible
to see Andean bands in traditional
garb playing traditional instruments,
in major and indeed some minor
cities throughout the world.
What prompted this move from
regional to global audiences?
What are the economic and social
implications of this trend?
How has the music been impacted?
These and other issues will
be discussed in this presentation.
Suggested readings:
García, María
Elena
2003. The Politics of Community:
Education, Indigenous Rights,
and Ethnic Mobilization in Peru.
Latin American Perspectives
30(1):70-95.
Turino, Thomas
1988. The Music of Andean Migrants
in Lima, Peru: Demographics,
Social Power, and Style. Latin
American Music Review / Revista
de Música Latinoamericana 9(2):127-150.
2003. Nationalism
and Latin American Music: Selected
Case Studies and Theoretical
Considerations. Latin American
Music Review / Revista de Música
Latinoamericana 24(2):169-209.
For photos and
descriptions of Peruvian cuisine,
please see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peruvian_cuisine
For a video
of popular Peruvian dishes,
please see, “Perú, Mucho Gusto,”
The Peruvian Cuisine. La Gastronomía
del Perú:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jl-S85BtUGs,
produced by PromPerú, the Peruvian
Commission for the Promotion
of Peru.
|
Rob
Gifford
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Patrick
Fraser, Photographer |
|
Global
Rhythms
|
Global Rhythms
will celebrate their 10th Anniversary
Concert at Hall Auditoirum on
September 29th 8.00 PM with
a total of 84 artists.
In this 10th Anniversary
Concert, Global Rhythms will
feature guests from Broadway
along with artists from India
and Afghanisthan for the first
time. Jeff Queen from the Broadway
show Blast will combine with
8 hip hop dancers as well as
a 15 year female prodigy from
India, Rajna Swaminathan, and
a 14 member All Stars drumline
featuring Jason Koontz, James
Sparling and Mariane McAdam's
Modern Dance company of 12 dancers.
Sitar virtuoso Ms Anupama Bhagwat
who resides in Italy and India
will be featured with Habib
Wardak from Afghanisthan. Two
acts of Clown Logic, a sketch
of comedy theater will be presented
by Tim Simeone, Darren and Beth.
Two pieces of India's Mozart
AR Rahman will be premiered
by the Misfitz, a 14 member
all female A Capella Team from
Miami University and more music
from Andrew Lloyd Webber's Bombay
Dreams will be featured by a
20 member percussion ensemble
with Bollywood style dancing
choreographed by Meera Seshadri
and Tami Robinson (This team
has recently returned after
a successful concert tour in
India earlier this year). A
taste of Carnatic saxophone
by Sid and Shyam from India
as well as Latin percussion
by Pat Hernly will combine with
Leon Enneking's 16 member Gyle
Ensemble (from the percussion
traditions of Ghana). India's
most celebrated classical ballet
dancer Roja Kannan will choregraph
two pieces set to an arrangement
on the steel drum, tabla and
sitar. The Rock-It String Quartet
immersed in Western Classical
tradition will be featured for
the first time performing a
piece set to nine scales with
a voice quartet from India while
Bill Albin has a folk West African
piece choreographed with pumkins!
The show is directed by Srinivas
Krishnan, Artist in Residence
at the Center for World and
American Cultures.
Suggested reading
at:
http://www.units.muohio.edu/globalrhythms
To learn
more about this event, visit
the Center for American and
World Cultures website at http://www.muohio.edu/cawc,
click on the calendar of events
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Mark
Hauser
|
Hauser, Mark
2006. Hawking your wares: Determining
the scale of informal economy
through the distribution of
local coarse earthenware in
eighteenth-century Jamaica.
In African Re-Genesis: Confronting
Social Issues in the Diaspora,
K. C. MacDonald, ed. Pp. 160-175.
New York: University College
London Press.
Higman, Barry W.
1998. Montpelier, Jamaica: a
plantation community in slavery
and freedom, 1739-1912. Mona,
Jamaica: University of the West
Indies Press.
Kelly, Kenneth
G.
2004. Historical Archaeology
in the French Caribbean: An
Introduction to a Special Volume
of the Journal of Caribbean
Archaeology. Journal of Caribbean
Archaeology (Special Publication
#1):1-10.
Pérotin-Dumon, Anne
1991 Cabotage, Contraband, and
Corsairs: The Port Cities of
Guadeloupe and Their Inhabitants,
1650-1800. In Atlantic Port
Cities: Economy, Culture, and
Society in the Atlantic World,
1650-1850, Franklin W. Knight
and Peggy K. Liss, eds. Pp.
58-86. Knoxville: University
of Tennessee Press.
|
Fourth
Annual Human Rights and Social Justice
Information Day
|
Program
Human Rights and
Social Justice Day Proclamation
and Address
1:00 p.m.
Fourth Annual Human Rights and
Social Justice Information Fair
Multipurpose Rooms A and B,
Shriver Center
10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
As an educational
opportunity, the Third Annual
Human Rights and Social Justice
Information Fair:
- joins forces with organizations
devoted to the elimination of
hunger, homelessness, poverty,
the effects of environmental
degradation/deterioration on
human livelihoods, modern slavery,
forced migrations, physical
and mental abuse, ethnocide,
and genocide- to communicate
information that raises awareness
about human rights and social
justice efforts and action in
our communities and around the
world; and
- creates opportunities for
students and the large community
to be engaged on human rights
and social justice networks
and service programs (volunteer
programs, social service programs,
learning service programs, professional
development programs and others).
Fourth Annual Human Rights and
Social Justice Film Festival
- Multipurpose Room C, Shriver
Center
A.M./P.M (TBA)
Special Presentations
–
Multipurpose Room C, Shriver
Center
Keynote-
Anna Bosseman, Ghana Commission
on Human Rights
4:30 p.m. 212 MacMillan Hall
“Human Rights and Social Justice”
Writing Contest
For more information visit:
CAWC website at www.muohio.edu/cawc,
click on Calendar of events,
November.
The Center for Writing Excellence
website at http://www.units.muohio.edu/cwe/
MacMillan Hall Photo Exhibit
– Contest
The Photo Exhibit is part of
the Study Abroad Photography
Contest organized by the Office
of International Education OIE
which this year added the View
of Human Rights and Social Justice
as a new category of the contest.
For more information about the
contest and the exhibit visit
the OIE website http://www.units.muohio.edu/internationalprograms/photocontest.php
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John
Jackosn
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Abstract
Jackson uses
the recent controversies surrounding
the public "meltdowns"
of comedians Dave Chappelle
and Michael Richards to explain
some of what makes contemporary
racism in America so different
from just about anything this
nation has experienced in the
past. Racial Paranoia, he argues,
is not about Blacks being hypersensitive.
It is also not just the same
thing as racism. The key to
understanding race/racism today,
he claims, is based on our ability
to understand what racial paranoia
"does" in contemporary
society and how that relates
to debates about "political
correctness".
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Dan
LaBotz
Stephen
Lewis
Clara
Rodriguez
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This
presentation will focus
on Latinos in the U.S.
media. The U.S.census
estimates 42 million Latinos
are in the U.S., representing
close to 14% of the population.
Clara Rodríguez will examine
the history of Latinos
in Hollywood film and
their current representation
on television in light
of the long-standing existence
of Latino communities
in the U.S., and the rapid
growth of the U. S. Latino
population in the last
two decades. |
http://www.fordham.edu/academics/programs_at_fordham_/sociology__anthropol/sociology__
anthropol/department_page/fclc_sociology_and_a/faculty_at_lincoln_c/clara_rodriguez_22159.asp
Suggested
readings:
Mastro, Dana
E. and Behm-Morawitz, Elizabeth
2005 Latino Representation on
Primetime Television, Journalism
and Mass
Communication Quarterly 82(1):
110-131.
Rodríguez, Clara
2004. Heroes, Lovers and Others:
The Story of Latinos in Hollywood,
Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian
Institution Press. Also available
in
paperback from Oxford University
Press, 2007.
1997. Latin Looks: Images of
Latinas and Latinos in the U.S.
Media,
Boulder, Co.: Westview Press.
Noemi
Ulla
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Readings:
2007. Mina, Carlos. Tango.
Buenos Aires: Sudamericana
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Tom
Weissner
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