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Colorblind Racism?: The Politics of Controlling Racial and Ethnic Data?
(October 2 & 3, 2003)

FOUNDATIONAL SUPPORT

The sponsoring organizations would like to thank the generous foundations and donors who made the Colorblind Racism conference possible:

WELCOME REMARKS

October 3, 2003

Dear conference attendees:

After the passage of the Civil Rights legislation in the 1960’s, America experienced optimism about race and group relations. The future we saw then was simple. We would desegregate schools and neighborhoods and friendships and produce an integrated society in which color made no difference. It was a hope born of our history, and of the racialized nature of our lives in this society, a history and way of life in which color made all too much difference. The logical thing then, was to jettison color from our psyches, to purge society of its meanings and baggage.

But in the 40 years since that time, inequalities connected to color in this society have proven far more difficult to eliminate than we had expected. Progress has occurred, great progress. A conference such as this one would have been unlikely at the Stanford University of 1965. Or if it had happened, there would have been very few Stanford people of color to attend. But color-coded inequalities persist and sometimes worsen in virtually every walk of life in today’s society--health outcomes, health care, education, income, wealth, protection under the law, experience of the criminal justice system, etc. These facts have strained the understandings we had back in the 1960’s. Can we become color-blind as an act of will? Is it desirable to do so? Can color-coded inequalities be eliminated without seeing color? Isn’t our society strengthened by its diversity of colors and the diversity of perspectives, experiences, and contributions that diversity brings to us?

It is a cliché to say that California is an engine of change, that what begins here eventually shapes society as a whole. But nowhere is this truer than in the discussion of diversity. We are the nation’s most diverse state. And this fact keeps on the boil here a question that is fundamental to all American society: How can a society with such a long history of color-based inequality, become a society in which color is less a source of inequality than a source of communal strength?

This question is at the heart of the three conjoined conferences we have come to call the media conference, the academic conference and the advocate conference. Many people have worked for a long time to bring these conferences about and we are excited by the richness of discussion we know they will foster. Thus as we begin the academic conference, we take this opportunity to welcome you to this discussion with the greatest hope and anticipation.

Sincerely,

Claude M. Steele
Director, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University

Steve Montiel
Director, Annenberg’s Institute for Justice and Journalism, University of Southern California

Eva Paterson
Executive Director, Equal Justice Society

TWO DREAMS AT THE CROSSROADS:
RACE AND CLASS 40 YEARS AFTER THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON

SPONSORS

Annenberg Institute for Justice and Journalism, University of Southern California

Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University

Equal Justice Society

Stanford Alumni Association

CO-SPONSORS

American Cultures Center, University of California, Berkeley

Bay Area Black Journalists Association

California Coalition for Civil Rights, a Special Initiative of the Lawyers' Committee for
Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area

Center for Biomedical Ethics, Stanford University

Center for Social Justice, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley

The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University

Institute for the Study of Social Change, University of California, Berkeley

Poverty and Race Research Action Council

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2nd, 2003

COLORBLIND RACISM?
THE POLITICS OF CONTROLLING RACIAL AND ETHNIC DATA

SPONSORS

Annenberg Institute for Justice and Journalism, University of Southern California

Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University

Equal Justice Society

CO-SPONSORS

American Cultures Center, University of California, Berkeley

Bay Area Black Journalists Association

California Coalition for Civil Rights, a Special Initiative of the Lawyers' Committee for
Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area

Center for Biomedical Ethics, Stanford University

Center for Social Justice, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley

The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University

Institute for the Study of Social Change, University of California, Berkeley

Poverty and Race Research Action Council

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3rd, 2003

COLORBLIND RACISM!
MAPPING A STRATEGY FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE

SPONSORS

Annenberg Institute for Justice and Journalism, University of Southern California

Equal Justice Society

CO-SPONSORS

California Coalition for Civil Rights, a Special Initiative of the Lawyers' Committee for
Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area

Center for Social Justice, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley

Poverty and Race Research Action Council

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4th, 2003

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

MICHELLE ALEXANDER is an Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Civil Rights Clinic at Stanford Law School. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, Ms. Alexander was Director of the Racial Justice Project at the ACLU of Northern California, where she launched a major campaign against racial profiling in law enforcement that combined litigation, public education, lobbying and coalition-building strategies. At the ACLU, she was counsel in numerous cases and advocacy efforts challenging racial bias in education, public contracting, and criminal justice. Ms. Alexander also obtained significant experience litigating civil rights cases in private practice, representing plaintiffs in employment discrimination, housing, and police misconduct cases. Ms. Alexander graduated from Vanderbilt University and Stanford Law School. She served as a law clerk on the United States Supreme Court for Justice Harry Blackmun, and on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit for Chief Judge Abner Mikva.

ANDREW BARLOW is Visiting Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Berkeley and Professor of Sociology at Diablo Valley College. He is the author of Between Fear and Hope: Globalization and Race in the United States (2003). Professor Barlow has been active in the civil rights movement for many years, most recently with the efforts to stop the passage of Propositions 209 and 54 in California, and as plaintiff in a lawsuit concerning racial data, Barlow v. Davis. He serves on the Board of Directors of La Raza Centro Legal in San Francisco.

MARIA BLANCO is the National Senior Counsel for the Sacramento office of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF). She is a graduate of the University of California’s Boalt Hall School of Law. Ms. Blanco was the Director of the Northern California Latino Civil Rights Network in Oakland before joining MALDEF. From 1993 to 1999 Ms. Blanco was an associate professor at Golden Gate University School of Law and Associate Director of its Women’s Employment Rights Clinic. From 1987 to 1993 Ms. Blanco was an attorney with Equal Rights Advocates in San Francisco. As both a litigator and advocate, Ms. Blanco has been actively involved in the areas of immigrant rights, women’s rights and racial justice. She has served on the boards of the Hispanic National Bar Association, the San Francisco Bar Association, California Rural Legal Assistance, the Northern California Coalition for Immigrant Rights, and La Clinica de la Raza in Oakland. Ms. Blanco is also a co-convener of Bay Are Coalition for Civil Rights. She has written several publications including Guidebook to California Employee Rights, and co-authored Golden Gate University; Used and Abused: The Treatment of Undocumented Victims of Labor Law Violations Since Hoffman Plastic Compounds v. NLRB.

LAWRENCE D. BOBO is the Norman Tishman and Charles M. Diker Professor of Sociology and Afro-American Studies at Harvard University. He is senior editor for Prismatic Metropolis: Inequality in Los Angeles (2000), co-editor for Urban Inequality in the United States: Evidence from Four Cities (2001), co-editor of Racialized Politics: The Debate on Racism in America (2000), co-author of Racial Attitudes in America: Trends and Interpretations (1997). His research has appeared in Public Opinion Quarterly, Social Psychology Quarterly, the American Political Science Review, Social Forces, the American Sociological Review, the American Journal of Sociology the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and the Journal of Social Issues. He has appeared on the Today Show, the CBS Sunday Morning Program, Nightline, on CNN, on NBC News and in numerous other print (e.g. The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, U.S.A. Today, and Newsweek), radio, and televised interview outlets. He has just completed a book manuscript entitled Prejudice in Politics to be published by Harvard University Press. He is currently working on two book manuscripts, one on race and crime and a second on contemporary racial ideology in the U.S.

LEE COKORINOS is Research Director at the Institute for Democracy Studies (IDS) in New York, where he coordinates the institute’s strategic research programs in law, reproductive rights, and religion. He is the author of the recently published landmark study on the right wing organizations that have waged the legal and political campaign against affirmative action, The Assault on Diversity: An Organized Challenge to Racial and Gender Justice. Mr. Cokorinos also edited and contributed to the IDS investigative newsletter, IDS Insights, is the author of the IDS report Antifeminist Organizations: Institutionalizing the Backlash, and co-authored the IDS briefing papers The Federalist Society and the Challenge to a Democratic Jurisprudence; Priests for Life: A New Era in Antiabortion Activism; The American Life League Enters Mexico: Recruiting Anti-Choice Activists for U.S. Right-wing Goals; and The Global Assault on Reproductive Rights: A Crucial Turning Point, prepared for the 2000 Beijing + 5 United Nations conference. A former research consultant with the Public Policy Institute of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Cokorinos has also published path-breaking research on the Promise Keepers men’s movement, and edited PK Watch for the Nation Institute’s Center for Democracy Studies. He received his M.Phil in Political Science at Columbia University and has been a lecturer in International Political Economy at Fordham University. He also directed the Southern African Literature Society in Botswana, and has conducted extensive research on southern African politics.

LINDA DARLING-HAMMOND is Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University where she teaches education policy courses and overseas the teacher education programs. She was the founding executive director of the National Commission for Teaching and America's Future, the blue-ribbon panel whose 1996 report "What Matters Most: Teaching for America's Future" catalyzed major policy changes across the U.S. to improve the quality of teacher education and teaching. Her research, teaching, and policy work focus on issues of teaching and teacher education, school restructuring, and educational equity. Among her more than 200 publications is The Right to Learn, recipient of the AERA Outstanding Book Award in 1998.

BELVA DAVIS is an award-winning journalist who has covered Bay Area politics for three decades. She was the first African American woman hired to work on television in the western United States. She is now one of only 500 journalists nationally to be profiled in the NEWSEUM. Davis got her start as a reporter for Black owned newspapers, and was the women’s editor for the San Francisco Sun Reporter. Her probing community based reporting has won her life time achievement awards from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences; Northern California Chapter, the National Association of Black Journalists and the Peralta Community College District. She earned six local Emmy’s for her reporting, and honorary Doctorates for her television work and community service from John F. Kennedy University and Golden Gate University. Belva Davis started her television career at KPIX, the CBS affiliate in San Francisco, before moving to KQED-TV where she anchored the nightly news. For nearly two decades she worked as a reporter and program host for KRON – TV, the Bay Area NBC affiliate. She is currently the host of KQED-TV’s Friday night current affairs program “This Week in Northern California,” and a special assignment reporter for KRON. Belva is the recipient of numerous community service awards for her volunteer work on behalf of a wide variety of causes. As the National Equal Employment Opportunities chair of AFTRA, the television union, she has spent countless hours advocating for women, minorities, and the disabled.

TROY DUSTER is Professor of Sociology at New York University and he also holds an appointment as Chancellor’s Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1996-98, he served as member and then chair of the joint NIH/DOE advisory committee on Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in the Human Genome Project (The ELSI Working Group). He is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Social Science Research Council, and this year served as chair of the Board of Directors of the Association of American Colleges and Universities. He is currently the President-Elect of the American Sociological Association. He is the former Director of the American Cultures Center and the Institute for the Study of Social Change, both at the University of California, Berkeley. He has numerous publications including Cultural Perspectives on Biological Knowledge (co-edited with Karen Garrett), Backdoor to Eugenics, and most recently Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Colorblind Society (co-author Brown, et al., 2003).

BOB EGELKO writes about legal affairs for the San Francisco Chronicle. He has been covering the court system for almost 20 years, concentrating on appellate courts. Egelko worked for the Associated Press in Los Angeles, San Diego, Sacramento and San Francisco from 1970 to 2000, and then spent five months with the San Francisco Examiner before the merger with the Chronicle in November 2000. He has an English degree from Stanford, a master's in journalism from UCLA and a law degree from McGeorge in Sacramento.

ELAINE ELINSON is an editor and communications consultant with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and the Equal Justice Society. For two decades, Elinson served as the editor of the ACLU News and the Public Information Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, where she directed media and publicity campaigns on a wide variety of issues, including race and the death penalty, juvenile justice, reproductive rights, language rights, immigrants’ rights, racial profiling and the right to dissent. The former producer and host of the monthly Pacifica radio show “Taking Liberties, Elinson has led media trainings and presentations on media advocacy at numerous conferences and universities including Stanford Law School, Hastings Law School and the U.C. Berkeley School of Journalism. A former reporter and editor for Pacific News Service in California and Southeast Asia, she is the co-author of the book Development Debacle: the World Bank in the Philippines, which was banned by the Marcos regime.

LUIS RICARDO FRAGA is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University. He received his A.B. degree from Harvard University and his Ph.D. from Rice University. He is co-editor of Ethnic and Racial Minorities in Advanced Industrial Democracies (1992). He is currently completing two other book manuscripts: one is entitled The Changing Urban Regime: Toward an Informed Public Interest, a study of racial-ethnic representation in San Antonio, Texas, and the other is Missed Opportunities: The Politics of Schools in San Francisco. He is a past president of the Western Political Science Association and has served on the Executive Council of the American Political Science Association. He has received a number of teaching and advising awards at Stanford including the Adaljiza Sosa-Riddell Award for Exemplary Mentoring of Graduate Latina/o Students by the Committee on the Status of Latinos in the Profession of the American Political Science Association (2001). In 2003-04 he is a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, where he will be completing his study entitled "Gender and Ethnicity: The Political Incorporation of Latina State Legislators."

GEORGE M. FREDRICKSON is Edgar E. Robinson Professor of United States History (emeritus) at Stanford University and Co-director (emeritus) of the Research Institute of Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. He received his A.B. and PhD from Harvard in 1956 and 64, respectively, matriculated as a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Oslo (1956-7) and was awarded an honorary M.A. from Oxford University in 1988. Before coming to Stanford in 1984, he taught at Harvard and at Northwestern, where he was William Smith Mason Professor of American History. He is the author of seven original books, all of which are currently in print: The Inner Civil War: Northern Intellectuals and the Crisis of the Union (1965), The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on Afro-American Character and Destiny, 1817-1914 (1971, co-winner of the Anisfield wolf Award in Race Relations), White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American and South African History (1981, Pulitzer Prize finalist, winner of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize from Phi Beta Kappa and the Merle Curti Award for social history from the Organization of American Historians), The Arrogance of Race: Historical Perspectives on Slavery, Racism, and Social Inequality, (1987), Black Liberation: A Comparative History of Black Ideologies in the United States and South Africa (1995), The Comparative Imagination: On the History of Racism, Nationalism, and Social Movements (1997), and Racism: A Short History (2002). In addition, he has edited four books, published numerous articles in general as well as scholarly journals, including more than twenty-five pieces in The New York Review of Books. In 1985, he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

EDWIN GARCIA has spent more than five years on the race and demographics team of the San Jose Mercury News. He writes about politics as it relates to race and ethnicity, and he covers Latino affairs. In addition, he is a columnist for the newspaper's Spanish-language weekly, Nuevo Mundo. He joined the Mercury News in 1992 and before that, he worked nearly 2½ years at smaller publications, and freelanced. He also was a private investigator. He is a 1988 journalism graduate of San Jose State University. He was born in Oakland, California, to a Mexican mother and Costa Rican father.

STEVEN A. HOLMES is an editor in the Washington Bureau of The New York Times where he supervises coverage of a wide range of issues. Prior to becoming an editor, he was a reporter in the bureau for 11 years, during which time he covered race and demographic issues, Congress, the Presidential campaigns of Pat Buchanan and H. Ross Perot, and the State Department. He is the author of "Ron Brown: An Uncommon Life," a biography of the late Commerce Secretary and Chairman of the Democratic Party. He wrote on the articles and helped edit many of the others in the Times' 15-part series "How Race Is Lived In America," which won a Pulitzer Prize in 2001. Prior to joining the Times, Holmes was a national correspondent for Time Magazine, working in the magazine's Chicago, Los Angeles, London and Washington bureaus. While at Time, he covered national and local politics, agricultural issues, sports (including the 1984 Olympics), international finance, the Supreme Court and the Justice Department. Holmes began his journalism career as a police reporter for the Herald Statesman in Yonkers, NY. He also worked for United Press International in Dallas and the Atlanta Constitution, in Atlanta, GA. Born in Brooklyn, Holmes grew up in Mt. Vernon, NY. He is a graduate of City College of New York and the Michele Clark Memorial Program for Minority Journalists, which was begun by the late Robert Maynard and was the precursor to the Institute for Journalism Education. He put himself through school by driving a New York City taxicab at night, and still insists that this was the second best job he's ever had.

BARBARA KOENIG, an anthropologist who studies contemporary biomedicine, served for ten years as Executive Director of the Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics, where she was responsible for developing the Center’s research programs. Prior to her move to Stanford, she was the West Coast Research Coordinator for The Hastings Center and served on the faculty of the University of California, San Francisco. Her Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology is from the University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco joint program. Koenig is one of a small number of anthropologists whose work contributes to the interdisciplinary field of bioethics. She has a long-standing interest in the cultural context of biomedical innovation, including research on end-of-life care and the ethical, social, and legal implications of the genomic sciences.

MARIANNE ENGELMAN LADO is General Counsel to New York Lawyers for the Public Interest (NYLPI), where she supervises and administers the litigation and advocacy program, including impact litigation, administrative advocacy, direct representation, community organizing and outreach, and intake. Marianne has also helped to facilitate the development of the National Campaign to Restore Civil Rights, a nationwide effort to address the rollback of civil rights by the courts. Marianne was previously a staff attorney at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF), where she worked on litigation and advocacy within LDF’s Poverty & Justice Program, representing clients attempting to break barriers of access to health care and quality education. She also organized the legal effort in the late 1990s to save the public hospitals in New York City. Marianne has taught graduate and undergraduate level courses in public administration, health policy, and education law at Baruch College. She holds a B.A. in government from Cornell University, a J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, and an M.A. in Politics from Princeton University. Her many publications include “Unfinished Agenda: The Need for Civil Rights Litigation to Address Continuing Patterns of Race Discrimination and Inequalities in Access to Health Care,” “Breaking the Barriers of Access to Health Care: A Discussion of the Role of Civil Rights Litigation and the Relationship Between Burdens of Proof and the Experience of Denial,” and “A Question of Justice: African-American Legal Perspectives on the 1883 Civil Rights Cases.”

BILL LANN LEE is a partner with the law firm Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, LLP in San Francisco, California, where he chairs the firm’s International/Human Rights Practice Group and co-chairs the Employment Practice Group. A Yale alumnus and Columbia Law School graduate, Bill devoted 17 years to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund before serving in the U.S. Justice Department as Acting Assistant Attorney General from December 1997 until his appointment in August 2000 as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. Bill is the recipient of numerous honors and awards, such as the Pearlstein Civil Rights Award (2002), the John Randolph Distinguished Service Award (2001), and the Pioneer Award (2000). Bill and his wife, Carolyn M. Yee, have three children: Angela, Mark, and Nicholas.

HAZEL ROSE MARKUS has been a professor of psychology at Stanford University since 1994. Previously, she was a faculty member in the Department of Psychology at the University of Michigan where she held the Helen Peak Professorship of Psychology and was awarded the Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award. She was also a research scientist at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. Markus is the author of more that 100 publications most of them focusing on the role of self in regulating behavior and on the ways in which the self is shaped by the social world. She received her B.A. from California State University at San Diego and her PhD. from the University of Michigan. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1994 and was named the Davis-Brack Professor in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. In 2002 she received the Donald T. Campbell award for contributions to social psychology. She currently serves as the co-director of Stanford’s Research Institute for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. Recently she has co-edited a book entitled Engaging Cultural Differences: The Multicultural Challenge in Liberal Democracies and is the author of papers on the influence of sociocultural contexts on self, competence, choice, and well-being.

GWEN MCKINNEY is President of McKinney & Associates Inc. (formerly known as McKinney & McDowell Associates), a firm she established in November 1990. McKinney & Associates is the first African-American and woman-owned public relations firms in the nation’s capital that expressly focuses on social marketing. Her clients include NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, American Civil Liberties Union, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and others. Formerly a reporter with the Philadelphia Tribune, Ms. McKinney began her career in journalism in the late 1970s covering local and national issues affecting minority and low-income communities. She was columnist and Capitol Hill correspondent for several newspapers including the St. Louis American, Buffalo Challenger, San Francisco Sun Reporter and Jackson (Mississippi) Advocate. Ms. McKinney’s articles have been syndicated in weekly newspapers across the country by the National Newspaper Publishers Association, the umbrella organization for over 200 weekly newspapers. She also has written for Essence magazine and Black Enterprise. She has provided strategic planning and public relations counsel to coalitions working on issues ranging from teen pregnancy and adult literacy to tobacco control and health disparities in communities of color. Ms. McKinney was co-founder and national co-coordinator of the National Alliance of Third World Journalists, a U.S. based organization of journalists of color, and has also worked on journalism and fact-finding tours and conferences in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America.

MARTHA MENDOZA is a National Writer for the Associated Press whose investigative reports have won numerous awards and prompted Congressional hearings, Pentagon investigations and White House responses. She won a 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting as part of a team that revealed, with extensive documentation, the decades-old secret of how American soldiers early in the Korean War killed hundreds of civilians at the No Gun Ri Bridge. She won numerous other prestigious awards as well for the project. Mendoza was a 2001 Knight Fellow at Stanford University. She teaches a news writing class and guest lectures regularly at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In 2001, she co-authored the book The Bridge At No Gun Ri: A Hidden Nightmare from the Korean War published by Henry Holt, and assisted with a BBC documentary "Kill 'Em All" on the same subject. Mendoza's earlier award-winning works include her investigative reports on flaws in the federal government's wild horses program and illegal child labor in the U.S., both of which brought her top APME honors and other awards. She has worked at the Madera Tribune, the Santa Cruz Sentinel and Bay City News Service as well as the AP. She also is certificated in automotive and diesel mechanics and has a California teaching credential. She lives in Santa Cruz with her husband Ray and their three children.

STEVE MONTIEL, the director of USC Annenberg's Institute for Justice and Journalism, is a veteran journalist and educator who began his career in 1967 at The Arizona Daily Star and worked for several news organizations during the ensuing years: The Associated Press, Los Angeles Times and the Vietnam Bureau of Pacific Stars and Stripes. He also served as a spokesman for the 1984 Olympic Games, a foundation executive and political campaign press secretary. A co-founder of the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, which has worked to increase racial and cultural diversity in the news since 1976, he was the institute's President and Chief Executive Officer for 12 years, from September 1988 to September 2000. Montiel was a deputy press secretary for the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee from 1982 through 1984 and campaign press secretary for Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley in his successful re-election race in 1985. He was part of the first staff of the Amateur Athletic Foundation of Los Angeles, created with surplus funds from the 1984 Olympic Games, and was Vice President for Communications when he left to head the Oakland-based Maynard Institute. In addition to the Maynard Institute Board of Directors, Montiel serves on the boards of the California Council for the Humanities and the California First Amendment Coalition. He is a member of the California Chicano News Media Association, which he first joined in 1972. He graduated from the University of Arizona with a bachelor's degree in journalism in 1969 and taught there as an assistant professor of journalism from 1979 to 1981.

CARMEN RITA NEVAREZ, with more than 23 years of experience as a physician and 19 years as a public health practitioner, is uniquely qualified to serve as an advocate for issues impacting the public's health. Dr. Nevarez currently serves as the Medical Director and Vice President of External Relations at the Public Health Institute (PHI), one of the largest and most comprehensive public health organizations in the nation. Prior to joining PHI, Dr. Nevarez served as a Health Officer and Department Director with the Department of Health and Human Services at the City of Berkeley. As Assistant to the Dean and Community Liaison at the University of California at Berkeley School of Public Health, she provided a community-based public health practice resource to the campus and community organizations. As a physician, Dr. Nevarez has helped to provide medical services to multi-cultural, multi-ethnic communities in a diverse array of settings including: serving as Medical Director at La Clinica de la Raza, Oakland and the Beach Area Community Clinic in San Diego. She received her M.D. from the University of Minnesota and her M.P.H. from the University of California at Berkeley. She completed a General Preventive Medicine Residency with California Department of Health Services. Dr. Nevarez currently serves as Executive Board Member for the American Public Health Association, Past President of the California Public Health Association - North and former Chair of the Board of the California Center for Public Health Advocacy.

JEANNIE OAKES is Presidential Professor in Educational Equity and Director of UCLA's Institute for Democracy, Education & Access (IDEA) and UC's All Campus Consortium on Research for Diversity (ACCORD). Oakes' work addresses tracking and ability grouping, unequal distribution of resources and opportunities for education, and educators working for equity. The latter topic is reported in her latest book she co-authored with Karen Hunter Quartz, Steve Ryan and Martin Lipton, Becoming Good American Schools: The Struggle for Civic Virtue in Education Reform (2000). Professor Oakes was also the founding director of UCLA's Center X-Where Research and Practice Intersect for Urban School Professionals. Oakes' current research program at the Center investigates teacher development aimed at social justice for urban schools serving low-income students of color. Oakes' awards include the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Educational Press Association of America; three major awards from the American Educational Research Association (Early Career Award; Outstanding Research Article; Outstanding Book), and the National Association for Multicultural Education's Multicultural Research Award. She is also the recipient of Southern Christian Leadership Conference's Ralph David Abernathy Award for Public Service.

MICHAEL OMI is Associate Professor and Chair of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Along with Howard Winant, he is the author of Racial Formation in the United States (2nd edition, 1994) and numerous articles on racial theory and politics. He has also written about Asian Americans and racial stratification, racial and ethnic categories and the U.S. Census, and both racist and anti-racist social movements. Since 1995, he has been the co-editor of the book series on Asian American History and Culture at Temple University Press. He is currently Chair of the Daniel E. Koshland Committee at the San Francisco Foundation and also serves on the National Board of the Institute on Race and Poverty at the University of Minnesota, the Advisory Board of the Progressive Media Project in Madison, Wisconsin, and the RESPECT Advisory Group of the Anne E. Casey Foundation in Baltimore Maryland.

STEVEN C. OWYANG is the Executive and Legal Affairs Secretary for the California Fair Employment and Housing Commission. The Commission enforces state civil rights laws involving employment, housing, public accommodations and hate violence. He previously served as Commission Counsel. Before joining the Commission in 1979, Mr. Owyang was on the staff of Chinese for Affirmative Action, a civil rights advocacy organization in San Francisco. He was admitted to the California bar in 1976 after receiving his Juris Doctor degree at the School of Law (Boalt Hall), University of California, Berkeley. He received his Bachelor of Arts, with Honors, in 1973, from the University of California, Berkeley, where he majored in history, with an emphasis on East Asian and Asian American studies. Mr. Owyang has served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Labor and Employment Law Section of the State Bar of California. He has also served on the boards of the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, the Asian Law Caucus, the Chinatown YMCA, the Chinese American Democratic Club, Chinese for Affirmative Action, the Coalition of Asian Pacific Americans, Nihonmachi Legal Outreach, the Northeast Community Federal Credit Union, the Vanguard Public Foundation, and the Wah Mei School.

EVA PATERSON is the Executive Director, and a founder, of the Equal Justice Society, a national organization dedicated to changing the law through progressive legal theory, public policy and practice. Prior to taking the helm of the Equal Justice Society in 2003, Paterson was the Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, where she led the organization’s work providing free legal services to low-income individuals, litigating class action civil rights cases, including the groundbreaking anti-discrimination suit against race and gender discrimination by the San Francisco Fire Department that successfully desegregated the department, winning new opportunities for women and minority firefighters. A graduate of University of California, Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law, Paterson has served on the Boards of the National ACLU, Equal Rights Advocates and the San Francisco Bar Association, among others. Paterson has received more than 50 awards, including the Fay Stender Award from the California Women Lawyers, Woman of the Year from the Black Leadership Forum, the Earl Warren Civil Liberties Award from the ACLU of Northern California, and the Alumni Award of Merit from Northwestern University where she received her B.A. in Political Science. Paterson has delivered commencement addresses on college campuses across the nation, and she has served as an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law and at Hastings School of Law. As a 20-year-old student leader at a time of turmoil, Paterson, the first African American president of the Northwestern student government, was catapulted into the national spotlight when she debated then Vice President Spiro Agnew on live television. Since that time, she has been constantly sought out by the media for her incisive comments on social justice issues.

RAUL RAMIREZ has been News and Public Affairs Director of KQED-FM since 1991. In 1993, he was among a small number of news directors at National Public Radio member stations to help create local civic journalism partnership experiments in five U.S. regions, including the Bay Area. The resulting Bay Area Voice of the Voter partnership including KQED-FM, the San Francisco Chronicle and KRON-TV has been one of the most successful public-commercial civic journalism projects in the country. Ramirez has worked as a reporter for The Miami Herald and The Washington Post and as a reporter and editor for the Oakland Tribune and the San Francisco Examiner. He is President of the Board of the Center for Investigative Reporting and has won numerous awards for local, national and international reporting, including a Penny Missouri first place awarded to the San Francisco Examiner for the landmark 1980 series, “Gay in America,” which he co-edited. In 1999, he received a career achievement award from the society of Professional Journalists of Northern California for his print and broadcast work. He is a former Fellow in Asian Studies at the University of Hawaii’s Center for Asian and Pacific Studies and a 1994 research Fellow at Harvard’s Shorenstein Barone Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. He teaches journalism at San Francisco State University.

SANDIP ROY hosts “UpFront,” a radio show featuring the voices and stories of California's ethnic communities on KALW 91.7FM in San Francisco. He also edits the Civil Liberties Digest for Pacific News Service and New California Media. His work has been published in the San Jose Mercury News, San Francisco Chronicle, India Currents, India Abroad, Mid-day, Newsday, La Prensa San Diego and other publications.

THOMAS A. SAENZ is Vice President of Litigation at the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF). He oversees MALDEF's efforts nationwide to pursue civil rights litigation in the areas of education, employment, political access, immigrants' rights, and public resource equity. He graduated summa cum laude from Yale University in 1987 and received his law degree from Yale Law School in 1991. He then served first as a law clerk to the Honorable Harry L. Hupp of the United States District Court for the Central District of California, then to the Honorable Stephen Reinhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Tom joined MALDEF as a staff attorney in 1993; he became Los Angeles Regional Counsel in 1996, National Senior Counsel in 2000, and Vice President of Litigation in 2001. Tom has served as counsel in numerous civil rights cases, involving such issues as affirmative action, educational equity, employment discrimination, immigrants' rights, language rights, and day laborer rights. He served as MALDEF's lead counsel in successfully challenging California's Proposition 187 in court and is currently lead counsel in two court challenges to Proposition 227. Tom is also an adjunct lecturer at the USC Law School. The California State Bar awarded Tom its Jack Berman Award of Achievement for Distinguished Service to the Profession and Public (2000), which is presented annually to a young lawyer, and he was recognized as one of five Local Heroes of the Year for Hispanic Heritage Month 2000 by KCET-TV and Union Bank of California. Also in 2000, Tom was named one of the 100 most influential attorneys in California by California Law Business and one of 26 "lawyers of the year" by California Lawyer.

DENISE A. SEGURA is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, specializing in Chicana Feminist Studies, Latina/o education, and Chicana/Mexicana employment. Professor Segura received her Ph.D in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1986. She has been at UC Santa Barbara since 1986 and served as the Director of the Center for Chicano Studies Research from 1994-99. She has published numerous articles and reports in the areas of work, feminism, and Chicanas in higher education. Currently she is engaged in a collaborative research and outreach project with Dr. Richard Duran (UCSB Education), “ENLACE y Avance: Students and Families Empowered for Success” that is funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. This project builds upon the research report she authored, Latinos in Isla Vista (1999) and seeks to identify new sites for empowerment for families to negotiate effective pathways for their children in schools as well as develop communication systems between educators and diverse constituencies. Professor Segura is currently working on a book manuscript with Dr. Beatriz Pesquera, U.C. Davis, on Chicana Feminism in the Academy.

BRIAN D. SMEDLEY is a Senior Program Officer in the Division of Health Sciences Policy of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), where he most recently served as Study Director for the IOM report, Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care. Previously, Smedley served as Study Director for the IOM reports, Promoting Health: Intervention Strategies from Social and Behavioral Research; The Right Thing to Do, The Smart Thing to Do: Enhancing Diversity in the Health Professions; and The Unequal Burden of Cancer: An Assessment of NIH Research and Programs for Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved. Smedley came to the IOM from the American Psychological Association, where he worked on a wide range of social, health, and education policy topics in his capacity as Director for Public Interest Policy. Prior to working at the APA, Smedley served as a Congressional Science Fellow in the office of Rep. Robert C. Scott (D-VA), sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Education Policy Division of the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, N.J. Among his awards and distinctions, in 2000 Smedley was awarded the National Academy of Sciences’ Individual Staff Award for Distinguished Service, was awarded the Congressional Black Caucus “Healthcare Hero” award in April, 2002, and in August, 2002, was awarded the Early Career Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest by the American Psychological Association. Smedley received an A.B. degree in Psychology and Social Relations from Harvard University in 1986, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in clinical psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1992, where he was a Ford Foundation predoctoral and dissertation fellow.

CLAUDE STEELE is the Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences at Stanford University, where he has taught since 1991, and the Director of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. He has also been a faculty member at the Universities of Michigan, Washington, and Utah. He received his B.A. degree from Hiram College and his Ph. D. from The Ohio State University. He is Past President of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology and the Western Psychological Association. He has served as Chair of the Executive Committee of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Psychological Society, and on numerous editorial boards and grant study sections. He is Past-Chair of the Psychology Department at Stanford, a fellow of the APS and APA, and a member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Education. He is the recipient of a Cattell Fellowship, the Gordon Allport Prize, the William James Fellow Award from the American Psychological Society, the Kurt Lewin Prize from the Society for the Scientific Study of Social Issues, honorary doctorates from the University of Chicago and Yale University, from the American Psychological Association, the Senior Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest and the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences this year.

BEVERLY TUCKER is the Associate Executive Director & Chief Counsel, California Teachers Association. Ms. Tucker manages state-wide legal services department including nine staff attorneys, 13 support staff, and 35 affiliated law firms throughout California. Duties include supervision and coordination of CTA legal strategies and practice in labor, employment, and teacher rights cases; development of staff training; legislative review; and management of CTA's Group Legal Services Program.

ERIC YAMAMOTO is an award-winning law professor who is known for his legal work and scholarship on civil rights and racial justice. He served as a member of the legal team in 1984 successfully reopening the infamous WWII Japanese American internment case, Korematsu v. U.S., which led to reparations. He represented Manuel Fragante in his accent discrimination case to the U.S. Supreme Court and Alice Aiwohi in her successful Hawaiian Homelands breach of trust class action resulting in a state settlement of $600 million. He has long served as counsel to an organization working on indigenous Hawaiian water and reparation claims. He also recently represented the Hawai`i Civil Rights Commission in its appeal to the Hawai`i Supreme Court and has written many amicus briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court, most recently in the Grutter v. Michigan affirmative action case. Professor Yamamoto has published over 50 articles and chapters and two books. His first book on Interracial Justice (conflict and reconciliation among racial communities) received the Gustavus Meyers Award for Outstanding Books on Social Justice for 2000. His second, and co-authored book, Race, Rights and Reparation: Law and the Japanese American Internment, is receiving national attention in light of its relevance to the post-September 11th tension between national security and civil liberties in America. Professor Yamamoto was awarded the Haywood Burns Chair in Civil Rights for New York where he taught and lectured in 2001, and in 2000 he received the Rockefeller Foundation’s coveted Residency Fellowship for international justice scholars in Bellagio, Italy. In 1999 he taught as a visiting professor at his alma mater, Boalt Hall Law School, University of California at Berkeley. Professor Yamamoto works closely with and helps train law students interested in social justice, and is a founding member of the nationwide Equal Justice Society. He speaks regularly across the country on issues of racial reconciliation, reparations, national security and civil liberties.

DAVID WELLMAN is currently Professor of Community Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he is Director of Graduate Studies in Social Documentation. He is also Research Sociologist at the Institute for the Study of Social Change, at the University of California, Berkeley. He is co-author of Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind Society (2003) and author of Portraits of White Racism, second edition (1993) and The Union Makes Us Strong: Radical Unionism on the San Francisco Waterfront (1995). He is also contributing author of The Diversity Project, published by the Institute for the Study of Social Change, University of California, Berkeley in 1992. He has numerous other publications including "From Evil to Illness: Medicalizing Racism, Journal of American Orthopsychiatry, (2000). In 1997-98 he received an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship. He has testified as an expert witness in Federal District Court and California Superior Court on white racism in two successful anti-discrimination lawsuits. He also served as a member of the American Sociological Association's Task Force on a Statement on Race.

BEVERLY WHITE is a reporter and fill-in anchor at NBC4 Los Angeles where she has worked since 1992. She covers 'breaking news.' Her stories have included coverage of the Northridge earthquake, the Malibu fires and the crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261. Prior to coming to Los Angeles, White worked for the NBC-owned station in Miami, where she was on the Peabody-award winning team that covered Hurricane Andrew. She has worked in Cincinnati, San Antonio and Waco, TX. A self-described “Army brat,” White is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and a longtime member of the National Association of Black Journalists. She is married to a former TV news photographer and is the proud step-mom of a high school sophomore.

SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS

SPONSORS

Annenberg Institute for Justice and Journalism, University of Southern California
Created at USC Annenberg’s School of Journalism in 2000 with Ford Foundation funding, the institute is building an international network of journalists, journalistic decision makers and social justice practitioners, experts and advocates. After focusing initially on racial justice and injustices, the Institute for Justice and Journalism will widen the scope of its work to address a broader spectrum of social justice issues, both in the United States and internationally.
Web site: www.justicejournalism.org

Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University
The teaching and research carried out at CCSRE are based on interdisciplinary and comparative approaches for understanding the complex factors of race and ethnicity and how they have deeply shaped the course of history and the social fabric of the contemporary world. One of the few of its kind in higher education, CCSRE is emerging as a major national center promoting the study of race and ethnicity by exploring the causes and effects of race and ethnic relations in diverse societies.
Web site: http://ccsre.stanford.edu/

Equal Justice Society
The Equal Justice Society is a national membership organization dedicated to changing
the law through progressive legal theory, public policy and practice. We aim to advance innovative legal strategies for enduring social change, and to stop the increasing erosion of civil rights. We bring together scholars and advocates, students and attorneys to develop and disseminate strategic, coordinated, and winning legal theories and public policies that will
provide justice for all. Founded in 2000, the Equal Justice Society has already made an impact in the courtroom, the law schools and the community because we share a clear vision for the future. Our goal is to redefine jurisprudence to ensure that the rights of all are expanded, rather than diminished, by our courts and policymakers.
Web site: www.equaljusticesociety.org

CO-SPONSORS

Bay Area Black Journalists Association
The Association has become the Bay Area’s black media organization of choice with the objective of grooming black media professionals for leadership; to enhance the coverage of issues of concern to African American people; to work with Bay Area media in hiring and cultivating more blacks in management, and to make the media more responsible.
Web site: www.babja.org

California Coalition for Civil Rights, A Special Initiative of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area
The CaCCR initiative is an alliance of 47 civil rights organizations, activists, educators, lawyers, and advocates who are dedicated to achieving a just and healthy society. CaCCR increases the effectiveness of the California civil rights community by bringing its members together to develop common priorities, share information, educate the public and facilitate the development of progressive public policy. The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights is devoted to advancing the rights of people of color, poor people, and immigrants and refugees, while maintaining its historical commitment to provide legal advocacy for African-Americans.
Website: www.lccr.com

Center for the Teaching and Study of American Cultures, University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley fosters undergraduate courses that are integrative and comparative, and address theoretical and analytical issues relevant to understanding race, culture and ethnicity in American history and society. Successful completion of an American Cultures course is required for all undergraduates at Berkeley, a requirement intended to insure that all Berkeley graduates understand that the United States has been and now is fundamentally shaped by a complex of cultural traditions. In 2003-2004, faculty members from more than 30 departments all across campus are teaching more than 100 American cultures courses enrolling more than 9000 students.

Center for Biomedical Ethics, Stanford University
The Center for Biomedical Ethics engages in interdisciplinary research on moral questions arising from the complex relationships among medicine, science and society.
Web site: http://scbe.stanford.edu/

Center for Social Justice, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley
The Center for Social Justice at Boalt provides exciting and intellectually challenging programs, courses and community outreach. It brings faculty and students together with the bar and bench to explore more effective ways for the law to fulfill our nation's promise of equality for all people in our society.
Web site: www.law.berkeley.edu/cenpro/csj/

Center for the Teaching and Study of American Cultures, University of California, Berkeley
The Center for the Teaching and Study of American Cultures at UC Berkeley fosters undergraduate courses that are integrative and comparative, and address theoretical and analytical issues relevant to understanding race, culture and ethnicity in American history and society.

The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University
The Harvard Civil Rights Project’s mission is bridging the worlds of ideas and action, and becoming a preeminent source of intellectual capital and a forum for building consensus within the civil rights movement.
Web site: www.civilrightsproject.harvard.edu

Institute for the Study of Social Change, University of California, Berkeley
The Institute for the Study of Social Change is devoted to studies that will increase understanding of the mechanisms of social change and to the development of techniques and methods to assist the direction of social change for the general improvement of social life. It has a particular mandate to conduct research and provide research training on matters of social stratification and differentiation, including the condition of both economically and politically depressed minorities as well as the more privileged strata. The Institute also provides graduate student training, offers weekly seminars, hosts lecture series, and sponsors visiting scholars.

Poverty & Race Research Action Council
PRRAC is a non-partisan, national, not-for-profit organization convened by major civil rights, civil liberties and anti-poverty groups. Our purpose is to link social science research to advocacy work in order to successfully address p
roblems at the intersection of race and poverty.
Web site: www.prrac.org

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Special thanks to the conference planners who generously shared their time, expertise, and convictions to make this conference possible.

We especially want to thank Leanne Isaak, Allegra Churchill, Rico Oyola and Susan Serrano for all they did throughout last year to guide this conference into being. The Colorblind Racism conference is the result of their careful attention to detail, many skills, and patience. We thank you!

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