RACE IN DIGITAL SPACE conference at MIT
April 27-29, 2001
Free and open to the public!
Race in Digital Space is a three-day conference exploring key issues surrounding race and technology in the digital age. Speakers will include scholars, artists, writers, professionals, policy makers, social and cultural commentators, community leaders and young people.
All conference sessions will be held in Building E-51 on the MIT campus in Cambridge.
Admission for all conference events is FREE and open to the public. Register online and check back for periodic updates on location and travel information, entertainment, and more.
The conference will serve as a touchstone for thinking about race and ethnicity in digital spaces and focus conversation not only on where we have been and are, but where we need to go and how we might get there.
The conference also marks the launch of a year-long exploration continuing on-line at a special program website and culminating in a second conference at the University of Southern California in Spring 2002.
Complete information and registration at:
Race in Digital Space is presented by the Univ. of Southern California and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in conjunction with University of California-Santa Barbara and New York University.
Hello,
My name is Katharine and I am a biracial student at the University of
Maine, Orono. I would love for you to know that I am coordinating the
first ever Biracial Dialogues at this campus on February the 12th. It will
be just me and another biracial (both of us have one Black parent and one
White parent) woman discussing our stories and reaching out to individuals
and families who are also struggling with this identity. We are doing this
as part of Black History Month and in celebration of the class book, The
Color of Water, by James McBride who will visit our campus in March.
Eventually, we hope that other biracial students will do the same for Latino/a, Asian and even Native Americans. I, for one, am so excited. Nervous too, of course, but I'm just hoping to reach out to someone. I'd be honored if you could post this on your website and feel free to leave my email address for anyone who wants to get in touch -- especially if they have advice to share!
Thanks,
Katharine
Please post our sorority's web address on your list of multicultural organizations. We are Zeta Sigma Chi Multicultural Sorority, Inc. at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. www-personal.umich.edu/~tdrayton/zchi.html
Hello,
My name is Jason Cugnet I am a Senior Sociology major at Colorado College. I
am researching my thesis on the construction of racial identity among
biracial college students. I acquired your group name on the internet and
was wondering if it would be at all possible to forward this interview to
your group members. This is a much more in depth question and answer
session. I would like for you to feel free to expound on your answers as
much or as little as you would like. Plus, feel free to add anything else
you feel would be helpful in the understanding of construction of your
personal racial identity.
Thank You
Jason Cugnet
1. Your Mother's race
2. Father's race
3. Do you live with both of your parents, if not please state which one.
4. Explain the first encounter you had with racism.
5. What does biracial mean to you, explain?
6. Which race do you identify with more, and why? If you feel that you identify with both equally please explain how you are able to be as much one as the other.
7. As a child was your sense of racial identity the same or different, explain?
8. Do you feel the surroundings you were raised in affected your idea of your racial identity, explain?
9. Do you feel that your personal appearance has an affect on how you ,and others, view your racial identity, explain?
10. What is the biggest problem you encounter do to your biraciality?
11. Do you feel a pressure from either race to "choose sides"?
12. Do you feel that society plays a part in the construction of your racial identity? Is how people look at you, how you look at yourself, explain?
11. Please share anything you feel is important to my study of biracial college students.
Thanks Again.
Jason
Hello my name is Justin Vafa Williams and I am currently a freshman at Georgetown University. I am Biracial (Iranian and African-American) and I am very interested in starting an organization at my school that would be geared towards multiracial students and exploring the mixed race experience. In order to start this group however I would like to receive more information from members of Multiracial organizations at other colleges on how their groups are organized. Any info that can be provided will be greatly appreciated. Anyone who wishes to help, can E-mail me at Vafa33@aol.com or call me (202) 784-7845. Thank you very much!!
Hi, My name is Patrick Dowd I am planning on having a meeting about starting a MultiRacial/MultiEthnic support group of "some kind" (discussion group, etc). I am a staff member at UCSD Medical Center but understand there are no on-going support systems for students either who are MultiRacial/MultiEthnic. The first meeting would be for students and staff and how we can start to organize support systems for both. Why am I so interested in organizing support systems for students and staff? Well, I am Jewish, Irish, French and Russian (my color is white). My cousin (Becky) who lives in Queens, New York is Black/White/Jewish. She is in High School and accepts all parts of her but gets rude and insensitive comments said to her about her multiracial/multiethnic identity. I do not want her to grow up in a world that does not accept her multiracial/multiethnic identity.
The best way I can help her and others is to enable other
multiracial/multiethnic individuals is to have support systems that accept
all of them. If you are a student or staff member at UCSD in San Diego, Ca.
and are interested, please E-mail me at PRD@ucsdhc.ucsd.edu or write me at
Patrick Dowd, PO Box 3454, San Diego, CA 92163 and/or call me at
619-574-0840. Hope to hear from you,
Patrick Dowd
To any undergraduate student who is considering graduate school. My name is Dr. George Yancey. I teach sociology at the University of North Texas. One of my areas of expertise is interracial families. In fact next semester I will teach a course called "The Biracial Family" which I hope to put in the curriculum here.
If you want to research issues surrounding interracial marriage or multiracial identity then I ask you to consider UNT. We have a Ph.D. program in sociology here. While this program does not have the reputation that other universities have, it may be to your advantage to have a faculty member who shares a lot of your research interest. Thus, I would like to help students interested in studying interracial families to publish and get a good start on their academic careers.
I would hope to attract enough good students so that we can intellectually feed off of each other. I also hope to get enough students here so that I can eventually offer a graduate level class on multiracial families. If you want any further info then please email me back at yancey@scs.cmm.unt.edu
Dr. George Yancey
The University of North Texas
If any of you live in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and you are interested in learning more about interraical issues you may want to take my class at the University of North Texas next semester. It is called "The Biracial Family," and it will deal with issues of interracial families, bi/multiriacal identity and transracial adoption. I have taught the course once before at another university and also hope to eventually place the course on the curriculem here at UNT.
Dr. George Yancey
Department of sociology
Hello from the student Irish society Ulster University Ireland.
We would be keen to network and learn from all participants.
www.geocities.com/Broadway/Booth/9132/
Seán mac Eachaidh
Chairperson.
The University of Michigan's Mixed Initiative
c/o Brent Geers
bgeers@umich.edu
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Hello, my name is Dr. George Yancey. Currently I am at the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater. However I have just accepted a position at the Univerisity of North Texas (UNT), which is the largest comprehensive university in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. UNT has a Ph.D. program in sociology that I will become a part of. I have published several articles on interracial marriage and I am hopeful that assess to the multiracial population will further support my work.
I am writing this message to prospective graduate students out there. I would like to help develop more scholars who are interested in multiracial issues of all kinds (interracial couples, bi/multiracial identity, transracial adoption). I have already taught an undergraduare "biracial families" class on an undergraduate level and will probably put together a graduate level course within the next three years. Furthermore, I am being hired to work on the development of an ethnic studes course at UNT. I hope to build a strong multiracial component into this program.
Those of you who are thinking about graduate school and want to study multiracial issues, I am interested in working with you. Why go to a graduate program and hope to find a professor who might work with you on the project and have some expertise in multiracial issues. I have that interest and want to see quality scholars develop who will investigate these issues. To this end you may want to consider UNT's sociology department for your education. If this sounds interesting to you then please send me an email at yanceyg@uwwvax.uww.edu. or call me at 414-472-1422.
Dr. George Yancey
University of Wisconsin at Whitewater
hi
thought you might like to add the url to your resources page:
www.umich.edu/~themix (it's a group for racially mixed students at
the university of michigan)
tia
!! CALLING ON ARTISTS FOR UPCOMING MIXED RACE CONFERENCE !!
On February 6-7, 1999, the 3rd Pan Collegiate Conference on the Mixed Race Experience will take place at Wesleyan University, in Middletown, Connecticut. In addition to featuring the biggest names in the mixed race community as speakers, workshop facilitators, participants, etc., we are looking to promote and up and coming mixed race/transracial artists in an exhibit. If you are a young graphic artist, sculptor, photographer... and would like to have your work showcased at the Conference, please contact Conference chair, Laura Hymson, at lhymson@wesleyan.edu. Hundreds of people can be exposed to your artwork... we may be able to cover transportation costs and overnight accommodations.
Regards,
Matthew A. Kelley,
Conference Committee
Penn State Biracial Discussion Group Allows Students To Share Experiences
University Park, Pa. -- When somebody gives Jungmiwha Bullock a rainbow Skittles candy wrapper, she tapes it with the others hanging on a wall in her residence hall room at Penn State. The colorful wrappers -- some green, some purple, others orange or red -- seem to reflect this student's pride in her biracial identity.
Bullock, who goes by the nickname "Jummy," is the daughter of an African American father and Korean mother. She is also a member of BOTH -- Blends of Traditional Heritages -- an educational discussion group developed by Penn State's Multicultural Resource Center and Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) for biracial students who share a common African heritage.
She comes from Baltimore, her father's hometown, and cherishes her community's acceptance of diversity. Bullock's African American relatives always acknowledged her and her three brothers as the first biracial children in their family. Moving to Penn State made her realize that not everybody understood her heritage. She became the target of racial insults and had to deal with the comments of well-meaning strangers.
"Back home, we could talk about race. It meant nothing. But when I came here, the picture changed," says Bullock, a junior advertising and marketing major. "My first semester at Penn State, my three White roommates said they never had a colored person for a roommate. They all came from different parts of the country but their attitudes were the same."
Like Bullock, the other 17 students in BOTH and the many who are not involved in the group are forced to confront their multiracial heritage once they arrive at Penn State, say the group's facilitators. Once away from a protective home environment, these students often feel like they have to identify with only one race -- such a decision, though, means rejecting one of their parents. They discover that White students want to pigeonhole them into a narrow category.
While BOTH won't turn away students not of African American descent, its main goal is to help those who are, and the organization is looking for more students to join. Most of the group's participants confront a dilemma that goes back to the days of slavery in the United States, when the 'one-drop rule' was in effect -- anybody with one drop of Black blood was considered African American and prevented from moving ahead.
"A lot of what we focus on is relative to our country's history of slavery and discrimination against Blacks," says Diane Farnsworth, a counselor with the Multicultural Resource Center and co-facilitator of BOTH. "Skin color is an issue in our society and can be a point of contention for biracial students when they first make friends at Penn State or adjust to the campus community at large."
Twice a week, BOTH members meet with Farnsworth and co-facilitator D'Andre Wilson, a predoctoral intern in counseling psychology. The group reads the latest articles on biracial groups, watches videos addressing this issue, and talks about their expectations with dating, discrimination, family relations, and society's expectations. BOTH members consider the group as a safe haven where they can meet others like themselves and learn that they're not alone. They accept that other members have different backgrounds, opinions, and community connections.
Bullock says Black and Asian races become one in her. Her heritage plays a role in everything from school projects to discussing race issues with the students for whom she serves as a resident assistant. Moreover, she describes BOTH members as high achievers who come from stable families and have high self-esteem.
"I love being biracial," she adds. "We bring something to the table the majority of the population never can."
For more information on BOTH, contact Diane Farnsworth at 814-865-1773 or at dgf1@psu.edu.
To all those involved in a group associated with multicultural awareness:
My name is Bridget Becker. I am a student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and I am currently involved in a club named Circolo Italiano. Though it is not an interracial theme, we would like to engage in a connection with the other cultural clubs located at our University, which do have interracial backgrounds. After getting everybody together, my club and others would like to stage the most effective multicultural awareness event the university, and even the city, has experienced.
The problem with our university is that up to now it has only been brouchures, occasional info. tables that everyone passes in the union, or sometimes having local businesses donate food springing from the certain culture your club pertains to. With your help we are hoping to find a way to start people thinking on what each culture, in fact brings to the university and city as whole. The problem is we also need to raise funds for cultural scholarships and the clubs themselves. If you have any ideas how we can stage a huge multicultural awareness which includes small part if any for donations to the different clubs, we would be most appreciative.
Again, my name is Bridget Becker I a student at University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee and am involved with Circolo Italiano.
My e-mail address is bcbecker@csd.uwm.edu
Phone Number where I can be reached: (414) 962-3485
Address:
Circolo Italiano
c/o Bridget Becker
2854 N. Cramer St.
Milwaukee, WI 53211
Thank you for your time and patience
MAVIN, (may-vin) the articulate print journal of the mixed race experience, is well under way! We would like to thank everyone for your support and interest. We have established our first MAVIN staff and have already received several submissions for our premiere issue, due out January, 1999.
MAVIN is a quarterly print journal dedicated to the celebration of the mixed race experience in America. MAVIN's mission is to create a pan-collegiate voice for America's racially mixed populace and to provide financial and logistical support to encourage mixed race student organizations across the country. MAVIN is an inclusive journal that advances increased awareness and recognizes the diversity of America's mixed race experience.
If you are excited about the mixed race experience, carefully consider getting involved with our exciting endeavor and become an integral part of our national publication's first issue! Although MAVIN focuses on providing a forum for the dissemination of ideas among mixed race students and organizations, we encourage everyone to participate. Discussion of interracial relationships and transracial adoptions are also included in MAVIN's mission.
If you would like to contribute to MAVIN, become a staff member, or would simply like more information about MAVIN, please e-mail us at: mavin@aa.net
Thank You.
Regards,
Matthew Kelley, editor-in-chief
Wesleyan University
This is the first official notice for the
!! 2ND PAN COLLEGIATE MIXED RACE CONFERENCE!!
Rescheduled!!
Approximate Date: February 1999 (2 day event)
Location: Wesleyan University * Middletown, Connecticut
This is the first official notice for the 2nd Pan Collegiate Mixed Race Conference taking place this February at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. Wesleyan University's Interracial Student's Organization (ISO), Students of Mixed Heritage at Amherst College (SMHAC), Brown Organization of Multiracial and Biracial Students (BOMBS), Wellesley College's FUSION, and MAVIN, the articulate journal of the mixed race experience, are all co-hosting the 2nd Pan-Collegiate Conference rescheduled for this February, 1999. This two day event will include speakers, workshops, films, discussion groups, and many other activities. The conference will address all aspects of the mixed race experience, including current debates concerning biracial identity, interracial relationships, and transracial adoption/adoptees.
The Conference's theme: Building Bridges; Building Community indicates a shift from interracial people building bridges, or acting as bridges between different races, into building our own bridges to each other in order to build our own community and our own networks. We will focus on grassroots orgainzing, strengthening connections between existing organizations, and on the importance of telling our stories and letting our voices be heard.
We encourage your student organization or club to co-host the event with us! If you would like to help organize the Conference, have any questions, or could contribute in any way, please contact the Conference chair, Laura Hymson at: lhymson@wesleyan.edu
-Finally, anyone interested in speaking or mediating discussion groups or workshops at the Conference should also contact Laura at the Email address provided.
Regards,
Matthew Kelley
mavin@aa.net
Who speaks for you? Who speaks for us? Encourage awareness for America's growing mixed-race population!
A new magazine addressing the mixed race experience is under development. Currently, the staff is made up of college students from across the U.S. The magazine is primarily geared towards creating a pan collegiate resource for mixed race/multiracial individuals and organizations on college campuses. We would like to encourage anyone to inquire about obtaining copies for their organization, or contributing their talents to the magazine. The magazine's premier issue includes political analysis, historical background, poetry, and photography among other topics.
An intelligent, comprehensive voice for the rising generation of our country's mixed race population is a necessity. We have a unique perspective and voice that needs to be heard. We need a voice that unites us while it informs the rest of America.
Please e-mail me at the address above for additional information regarding possible subscription, questions, or if you would like to contribute. A reply does not require any obligation! We only want to get a mailing list of interested college students and organizations. Lastly, also include the e-mail address(es) of anyone else who may be interested in information.
Mailings will most likely occur at the beginning of the Fall 1998 semester. Thank you, and remember, we need a voice to represent us!
Matthew Kelley,
Wesleyan University
Are you mixed? Are you transracially adopted? Do you live in the Lansing area or attend Michigan State Univerity? Then maybe you'd like to come and meet with the Multiracial Student Circle. Here, you'll get to talk and interact with people who know just what you're going through. You'll also get to work with and meet people who want to give you a place that you can call your own.
If you are interested in coming to one of our meetings, then email the following people for time and location.
Che' Andrew Masters
Nicole Tripoli
Marie Simmons
Natasa Wilson
We look forward to hearing from you.
Thank you,
Che' Andrew Masters
Communications Coodinator for the MSC
April 3-4, 1998
The National Coalition On Racism in Sports and the Media (NCRSM), the Progressive Resource/Action Cooperative (PRC), the People Against Racism (PAR), the Alumni Against Racist Mascots (AARM), and the Native American Students Organization (NASO) invite your participation at the First Conference on the Elimination of Racist Mascots, April 3-4, 1998 at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, home of the Fighting Illini and "Chief Illiniwek."
For more information please visit the "Anti-Chief" homepage
at:
www.prairienet.org/prc/anti.html/prcanti.html
Greetings!
I am a member of the Univeristy of Michigan MIXED INITIATIVE and I am posting this message to get the word out on a conference being organized by our group. The MIXED INITIATIVE is a group of undergraduate and graduate students on the UM campus dedicated to the needs of those who consider themselves to be bi/multiracial, multi-ethnic, cross-cultural, and/or transracially adopted. We are having our second annual conference on the mixed experience in March, so for any of you in the general area of Ann Arbor, Michigan around that time PLEASE JOIN US!
*What: In Mixed Company: 2nd Annual Conference on the Mixed Experience
Who: Sponsored by the UM MIXED INITIATIVE
When: Saturday March 21, 1998
10:00 am-5:45 pm (registration from 9:40 onward)
Where: The Michigan Union (530 S. State St.), Ann Arbor, MI
Etc.: Free admission. Open to the public. Child care provided.
*This conference will include speeches by keynote speaker Dr. Maria Root, small group discussions on various topics, paper presentations, a resource table, and an open-mic. Also, participants will have the opportunity to view the award-winning touring exhibit "Of Many Colors." This exhibit consists of photos and interviews with twenty diverse American families formed through interracial relationships or transracial adoption and will be on the UM campus from March 14-28.
Hi,
My name is Dr. George Yancey. I will be teaching a 3-week summer course called "Biracial Families." The areas of interest in this course will be interracial dating/marriage, biracial identity, the historical construction of race in America, and transracial adoption. To the best of my knowledge it is the first full 3 hour course of its kind done in sociology. The course will run from June 15 to July 3. To get information about registering for this course call the Admissions Office at UW-Whitewater (414-472-1440). If you wish to discuss this course with me personally you can call me at 414-472-1440.
If the subject of interracial families or biracial idenity is of interest to you and if you live in the Southern Eastern Wisconsin area (Madison-Milwaukee) or even the Northern Illinois area then I suggest that you might want to look into taking this course. I wish there was a way I could do this course through correspondance but that is not possible at this time. If you would like a syllabus of this course, once I have finished constructing it the email me at yanceyg@uwwvax.uww.edu.
Sincerely,
Dr. George Yancey
University of Wisconsin at Whitewater
Hello
My name is Jennifer Marie Ventura and I am Junior at Smith College in Northampton, MA. I am a biracial individual who is interested in many of the issues that are discussed on this web page. I have been toying with the idea of starting a biracial/multiracial organization on campus. I was wondering if there was any advice or info that you could give that might help me out in form of contacts or any other helpful stuff?
Jennifer M. Ventura
Hello!
My name is Chela Spaargaren and I am a member of Delta Xi Phi, Multicultural Sorority and we are located at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign.
The Women of Delta Xi Phi are looking for women who would be interested in continuing a sorority tradition of expanding multicultural awareness and tolerance by building a chapter at their university.
In addition, if there are any women searching for a sorority which will welcome them, regardless of race, origin, creed or religion, please feel free to contact us.
If any would like more information, our webpage address is:
www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Quad/3433
and a private message may be left on our guestbook.
We thank you for your time and consideration and hope to hear from you soon!
Sincerely,
The Women of Delta Xi Phi
I'm a sister of Mu Sigma Upsilon Sorority, Inc. We are the first multicultural sorority est. at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. We hold multicultural programs annually and we are looking to expand our sorority into New York. We will keep you informed of our activities and if you would like for us to participate in any of your activities we will be happy to do so. Please write to:
Tatiana A. Walrond
Mu Sigma Upsilon, Inc.
143 Norman Road
Vailsburg, NJ 07106
e-mail:cwal@erols.com
Are you a member of a biracial student organization? If so, I am very interested in the goals or your organization and any other information about your activities on campus.
This is Maria Phillips and I am a student at the Univ. of Maryland. I am doing research on how educational institutions are responding to the needs of biracial students. Please send any information to me about your formal activities or just your thoughts about how your position as a biracial student impacts your experience on campus.
Also, does anyone know anything about how students at Williams College (MA) were able to successfully lobby for the inclusion of the multi-racial category on the admissions form?
Last, but not least, how does one define biracial?
All responses are welcome. E-mail me at mphill3@umbc.edu. Thanks.
Are you an mixed? Are you an anomaly? Do you want to express all sides of your heritage, no matter how diversified? Are you a college student?
Well, what you need to do is start a chapter of the Organization of MultiEthnic Students at your college campus. For more information on OMES, e-mail us at ewhite@famu.edu, call (904) 915-4976, or write us at PO Box 7253; Tallahassee, FL 32314-7253.
"We are black, brown, white, yellow, and red. We are America."
This is Ernest White II with the Organization of MultiEthnic Students (OMES, remember?). Well, after a few months off-line, I've made it back on again and we're almost at full swing. We're trying to get a homepage called OMESOnline going and hope to have a house soon. My new e-mail address is ewhite@famu.edu. I'll keep you posted regarding the group.
Peace.
SEARCHING FOR COURSES ON MULTIRACIALITY AND MULTIRACIAL PEOPLE
My name is Jason Sperber, and I am an Ethnic Studies undergraduate at Brown University and former co-chairperson of the Brown Organization of Multiracial and Biracial Students (BOMBS). I am currently researching the state of the study of multiracial and multiracial people on college and university campuses towards the end goal of evaluating the present and future of multiracial studies and designing coursework for implementation at Brown in our new fledgling Ethnic Studies program.
If you teach or have taught, know of, have taken, or have designed a course on any and all aspects of multiraciality and multiracial people, in any discipline, please contact me. I am compiling syllabi, course descriptions, and course materials for analysis and comparison. If you have such materials, or know who I can contact to obtain such materials, please contact me. Any thoughts, ideas, experiences re: such courses, and materials are greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
Jason L. Sperber
Brown University
Jason_Sperber@brown.edu
(401) 621-8076
Hello, my name is Angela Paradise and last year I started a Biracial Students Peer Group here at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. Though we received much encouragement, praise, and involvement when the group first started it seems that lately, I can't get anyone to come to the meetings. I think that the problem is that we don't have a real agenda for why we are in existence. I established it as a discussion group, but now I'm beginning to think that we need to do more like programming and be more involved.
Do you have any suggestions for me? I would really appreciate hearing about what other groups do and what things seem to work for them.
Sincerely,
Angela Paradise
aparadis@indiana.edu
(812)857-6437
It's Melody and Kerry again from the Interracial Students Organization at Wesleyan University. We have finalized the plans for the conference. The Conference will be held on Saturday, April 19, 1997 at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. It will be a one day conference. Overnight accommodations are available for Friday the 18th and Saturday the 19th. The Registration Cost will be $15. This will include three meals, a speaker, a movie and a workshop. Transportation will not be provided.
If you are interested or have any questions e-mail call or write us at:
Melody Baker
Wesleyan Station
Box 4030
Middletown, CT. 06459
(860) 685-6945
Kerry Odom
Wesleyan Station
Box 4945
Middletown, CT. 06459
(860) 685-6623
I am interested in starting an organization on my campus (the University of Missouri - Columbia) for mixed-race students. I would appreciated any tips that you could give me. How do I attract that initial attention?
Sharon
Hi -
I too, am multiracial: Japanese, Korean, Dutch, German, Jewish and
Romanian. I feel that we have to value our diversity. One way which this
can happen is with the implementation of Ethnic Studies programs into our
universities. I am currently writing a paper on this and would appreciate
any input on the existence or non-existence of such programs in
universities across the country. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Lisa/Vassar College '97
As co-faciliators of Wesleyan University's Interracial Student
Organization (ISO), we would like to announce an upcomming event. In the
Spring of 1997 we will be having a conference on racial identity open to
all interracial students. It will be a one day conference on the weekend.
Overnight accomodations will be provided if needed. All costs will be
covered in a reasonable registration fee, with the exception of
transportation, which you will have to provide. We will begin the
conference with a keynote speaker, followed by a series of workshops and
discussions, and will end with a party. Lunch and dinner will be
provided. This conference will be similar to the one held on Wesleyan's
Campus three years ago. If your university has an interracial student
group, or people interested in comming to such an event please contact us
at:
Kerry Odom, (860)685-6623
Melody Baker, (860) 685-6945
We are still looking for suggestions on:
*speakers
*workshop topics/facilitators
*movies
Please contact us with any ideas. We would love to hear from you. All suggestions and participation is both welcome and encouraged.
Thank You,
Melody & Kerry
Hello, I was wondering if you could add our organization's webpage address to interracial voice. We're a student run organization at the University of Colorado at Boulder and would appreciate any and all support. Thanks.
Masala: Organization for biracial and multiracial people
http://ucsu.Colorado.EDU/~levart/
I am a student at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pa. We have a group, ABC, which stands for the Advancement of Black Culture. We are currently trying to find topics of discussion for upcoming forums during our Black History Month. One of the issues brought up was interracial dating in our society. We are looking for someone who might be willing to speak on this issue if possible. If you have any information on anyone who lectures on this issue, please e-mail me at reynoln@alleg.edu. or mcneilk@alleg.edu. Any info would be greatly appreciated!
I was wanting to get involved in trying to make a stand for interracial families. I am 24 yrs old and I attend the University of Louisville. I was wanting to know if there is anything that is going to be going on at the campus. I would like to get involved. Thank you.
On October 2, 1996, Lesley College, in Cambridge, MA will be featuring its annual "Diversity Day." This will be a day-long series of conferences, exhibits, and other presentations around the issue of diversity.
At 11:30, I will be hosting a conference called, "Transforming the U.S. Census: Breaking the "One Drop Rule?" This conference will be an interractive discussion about the possible policy-making and political effects of having a "multiracial" category on the census, as well as discussion about identity and the social construction of race in the United States. The conference will mainly focus on the black/white perspective.
I know that we only have about three weeks until the conference but I an still looking for a presenter who is knowledgable about the topic and is in favor of having a "multiracial" category, to participate in the discussion.
If anyone knows of someone in the area who would be interested or if you have any questions about Diversity Day or the Confernce, please email me.
Thanks.
I am a student at Rider University in Lawrenceville NJ and I would like information or suggestions on starting a multiracial/multiethnic group on my campus. Or I would like to know if anyone in the area already has a group, perhaps Trenton State College, or Rutgers. I would love to hear from anyone in the tri-state area. I live in Philadelphia, anyone from Drexal, Temple, St Joe's?
I am attending a conference in Philadelphia, FIRST's We the Future...A National Convention for Young Adults. It's a forum for GenerationX those 18-35 to voice thier views and concerns. I plan to bring up the issue of a mulitracial census box, one of the organizers is a interracially married and interested in the issue. They are still accepting applications if anyone is or will be in the area.
thanks
i was wondering if you, ar anyone, knew of any multi-racial group in the lansing michigan area. i am a student at michigan state university,and would be very interested in getting involved in some kind of group.
thanks
Jefferson Kodwo Robert Shirley
674 South Case Hall
East Lansing MI 48825 USA
(517) 355-6961
When: November 11th - December 2nd
There will be an open reception on Nov. 11th, but no time has been set yet. For more information, contact Thom Nixon at (717) 389-4510 or email at nixo@planetx.bloomu.edu
The University of Colorado at Boulder multiracial group, Masala, sends their best wishes to the marchers and hopes that this will be a truly memorable event. Good luck!
S. Levart
Coordinating Director, Masala
I am currently a student at the University Of Oklahoma. I am a 21 year old junior female, who is bi-racial. I would love to attend the March. This is something I must attend. Finally I can meet people who can understand where I am coming from. If anyone knows a cheap way of getting to the March from Oklahoma. I would deeply appreciate your ideas.
Thank You,
Melanie
Metisse Magazine and I are trying to organize a bus perhaps for people/students in North Carolina wanting to go to the March on Washington this summer. We want to try to find campus representatives from some of the colleges, I have volunteered for UNC-Chapel Hill, are there any other volunteers? p.s. if you want to help me and you go to UNC, you are still welcome. :)
okay bye!
What are/is the date of the March in July, there is a group forming to come from Indiana University.
Let me know, thanks.
DeAnn Stephens
I am the co-chair for the Brown Organization of Multi and Biracial Students. After a year of much work and many events the club has put on, it's nice to see that we are not the only ones. I would like to receive you magazines if possible, as many, many multiracial people here at Brown are very interested in finding more out and also networking.
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