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Negotiating the New Racial Landscape in California
(April 25-27, 2002)
Thursday, April 25, 2002
Opening Plenary Session [7:00pm - 10:00pm]
Race, Ethnicity and Politics in 21st Century California
Moderator:
Sonia Jarvis, Research Professor at the National Center for Communication Studies, George Washington University
Panelists:
Richard G. Polanco, Senate Majority Leader, California State Senate
Sharifa Wilson, Former Mayor of East Palo Alto
Michael P. Guingona, Mayor of Daly City
Friday, April 26, 2002
Morning Plenary [9:00am - 11:30am]
Geography of California Identities
Chair:
Hazel Rose Markus, Professor of Psychology/ Co-director of the Research Institute of Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University
Panelists:
Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, Professor of Education, Co-director of
the Harvard Immigration Project, Harvard University
C. Matthew Snipp, Professor of Sociology, Chair of Native American Studies,
Stanford University
Frank D. Bean, Professor of Sociology, UC Irvine
Jennifer Lee, Professor of Sociology, UC Irvine
Lunch [11:30am - 1:00pm]
Lunch provided for registered participants [registration form]
Session 1 [1:00pm - 3:00pm]
The Demographics of California's Diversity
Chair:
C. Matthew Snipp, Professor of Sociology/ Chair of Native American Studies, Stanford University
Panelists:
Mark Baldassare, Senior Fellow and Director of the Governance and Public
Finance Program, Public Policy Institute of California
Min Zhou, Professor of Sociology, Chair of Asian American Studies Interdepartmental
Degree Program, UCLA
Manuel Pastor, Jr., Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies, Director
of the Center for Justice, Tolerance and Community, UC Santa Cruz
Session 2 [1:00pm - 3:00pm]
Languages, Policies, and California Identities
Chair:
John R. Rickford, Professor of Linguistics, Director of African and African American Studies, Stanford University
Panelists:
Guadalupe Valdès, Professor of Education and Spanish and Portuguese,
Stanford University
Leanne L. Hinton, Professor of Linguistics, Director of the Survey of
California and Other Indian Languages, UC Berkeley
Noma LeMoine, Director, Los Angeles Unified School District's Academic
English Mastery Program
Session 3 [3:30pm-5:30pm]
Equality in Education
Chair:
Claude M. Steele, Professor of Psychology, Co-director of the Research Institute of Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University
Panelists:
Linda Darling-Hammond, Professor of Education, Stanford University
Rudy Crew, Director of the District Reform Initiatives, The Stupski Family
Foundation
Jeannie Oakes, Professor of Education/Director of the Institute for Democracy,
Education & Access/ Co-director of Center X, UCLA
Session 4 [3:30pm-5:30pm]
Justice for All? The Politics of Social Justice
Chair:
Luis R. Fraga
Associate Professor of Political Science, Stanford University
Panelists:
Joaquin G. Avila, Attorney, former President of MALDEF
Angela E. Oh, Attorney, Commissioner on the Los Angeles City Human Relations
Commission
Jewelle Taylor Gibbs, Professor of Social Policy, Community Change and
Practice Emeritus, UC Berkeley
Performance [8pm, Pigott Theater]
Monk's Mood: A Performance Meditation of the Life and Music of Thelonious
Monk
Conceived and Choreographed by Dr. Thomas F. DeFrantz
[performance information]
Saturday, April 27, 2002
Session 5 [10am-12pm]
Racial Representation and the Media
Chair:
Shanto Iyengar, Professor of Communication and Political Science, Stanford University
Panelists:
Belva Davis, television journalist, KRON 4 TV and KQED
Emerald Yeh, News Anchor, KRON 4 TV
Farai Chideya, Television and Website Journalist, Pop&politics.com,
BET News, CNN, MSNBC and FOX
Joe Rodriguez, columnist, Mercury News
Session 6 [10am- 12pm]
Concord and Conflict in Changing Communities of Color
Chair:
Susan Olzak, Professor of Sociology, Stanford University
Panelists:
Albert Camarillo, Professor of History, Director of the Center for Comparative
Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University
George Sanchez, Associate Professor of History and American Studies and
Ethnicity, Director of Chicano/Latino Studies, University of Southern
California
Linda Trinh Võ, Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies,
UC Irvine
Lunch [12:00pm - 1:30pm]
Lunch provided for registered participants [registration form]
Closing Plenary [1:30pm - 3:30pm]
California Dreaming: Imagining the Future
Chair:
Albert Camarillo, Professor of History, Director of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University
Panelists:
Rubén G. Rumbaut, Professor of Sociology, Co-director of the
Center for Research on Immigration, Population and Public Policy, UC Irvine
Lawrence D. Bobo, Professor of Sociology and Afro-American Studies, Harvard
University
Alison Dundes Renteln, Associate Professor of Political Science, University
of Southern California
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