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Friday, February 17, 2017

8:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

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Conference Sessions

9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

Session 1.1:  Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline  |  MU 230 (Pima)

Session 1.2:  Racism/Sexism: It’s an Issue for Everyone  |  MU 224 (Gila)

 
Session 1.3:  Speaking and Teaching the Unspeakable: Race and Education  |  MU 226 (Graham)

10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

Session 2.1:  “Quit Tryin’ to Act”: High School Students Becoming Comfortable with Who They Are
                         MU 230 (Pima)

Session 2.2:  LBGTQ+ Migrant and People of Color Intersections  |  MU 224 (Gila)

Session 2.3:  Speaking Racialization and Multiracial Identities  |  MU 226 (Graham)

1:15 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.

Session 3.1:  Opening Space: A Conversation on Race and Youth Theater  |  MU 230 (Pima)

Session 3.2:  Environmental Racism and Street Theater Performance  |  MU 226 (Graham)

Session 3.3:  Speaking Histories of Race  |  MU 224 (Gila)

3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Session 4.1: Racialized Knowing: an unsession  |  MU 227 (Pinal)

Session 4.2: Theorizing Race and Coloniality  |  MU 224 (Gila)

5 p.m. - 7 p.m.

Session 5:  Removing the Mask of Whiteness  |  MU 230 (Pima)

Saturday, February 18, 2017

8:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

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Conference Sessions

9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

Session 6.1:  Not an Undergraduate, Not Yet a Professor: The Experiences of Women of Color Graduate Students on a Predominantly White Campus  |  MU 224 (Gila)

Session 6.2:  Race in Visual and Literary Texts  |  MU 226 (Graham)

Session 6.3:  Whiteness Norms Distilled from 18 Recent Studies  |  MU 225 (Yuma)

10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

Session 7.1:  Changing Language of Civil Rights Advocacy in Arizona  |  MU 224 (Gila)

Session 7.2:  Intersectioned. Identity.  |  MU 226 (Graham)

Session 7.3:  Bullying and Race: an unsession  |  MU 225 (Yuma)

1:15 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.

Session 8.1: Narritivizing the Felt Impact of Racism and White Privilege Across Community Based and Academic Spaces  |  MU 224 (Gila)

 
Session 8.2:  The Arts, Race, and Rebellion: Artists in Action  |  MU 230 (Pima)

Session 8.3:  Social Pedagogies of Racialization  |  MU 226 (Graham)

3 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Session 9.1:  Exhaling an Ache: A Reading and Conversation  |  MU 230 (Pima)

5 p.m. - 7 p.m.

Session 10:  “On the Continuing Relevance of History: Manifest Destiny, Racism and Nation-Building in the Present”  |  MU 230 (Pima)

George Yancy, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Philosophy, Emory University
Philosophy of Race Book Series Editor, Lexington Books

“Removing the Mask of Whiteness”
Friday, February 17, 2017  |  5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Memorial Union (MU), Room 230 (Pima)

Whiteness, Yancy argues, is a site of fragility. It is also a site that has a binary structure. In other words, the logic of whiteness needs the other, the Black, the wretched, the damned. So, whiteness has a parasitic relational structure. If this is so, Black people will function as a site of pain and suffering, the sub-persons, the ontologically needed and yet paradoxically discarded and disposable. Hence, Yancy contends that what is necessary is what Baldwin calls a loss of white identity. Yancy argues that to go down this path, whites must be vulnerable, which means that whites must be prepared to face the structural emptiness of whiteness and begin to undo their complicity with white power and white privilege. Here Yancy pulls from his work regarding white opacity and white un-suturing. At the end of the day, we need to envision what it would look like for whites to live in a state of rage against white power and white privilege and begin to create conditions for this rage.    

Laura E. Gómez, Ph.D.

Interim Dean, Division of Social Sciences
Professor of Law
University of California, Los Angeles

“On the Continuing Relevance of History: Manifest Destiny, Racism and Nation-Building in the Present”
Saturday, February 18, 2017  |  5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Memorial Union (MU), Room 230 (Pima)

More than ever, all Americans should be aware of the long and rich history of Mexican Americans and the complex position of the original Mexican Americans who negotiated their place in both the regional and national racial landscapes of the late 19th century. Anyone who hopes to understand the dramatic and unstoppable demographic shift that is changing the U.S. from a majority-white to a majority-minority nation, where whites will become a minority compared to Latinos, African Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans, and those who claim a multi-racial identity must grapple with this racial history in order to make sense of the present and future racial order.  This history—detailed in the new edition of Manifest Destinies: the Making of the Mexican American Race, to be released in 2017—must be the starting point for thinking about social policies that will move us forward as a nation in ways that allow for the full incorporation of Latinos. Rather than repeat the mistakes of the past, we must understand how we got here in order to move forward in a way that seeks to perfect our national promise of equality and civic incorporation of all Americans. My comments will explore contemporary racial politics that have played out in the past decade—from the pro-immigrant rallies of 2006 that blocked immigration legislation, to enforcement of local and state anti-immigrant laws like Arizona’s SB1070, and in some senses culminating in one of the most divisive presidential elections in American history, in which Mexican Americans played a leading role. What lessons do these events hold for how race and racism have changed and where Latinos fit in the new racial order?

Location: 

Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona 85281

Arizona State University's Tempe campus is an urban campus located in the heart of Tempe, near the Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport and is minutes from Downtown Phoenix.  ASU Tempe is arranged around broad pedestrian malls and is completely encompassed by an arboretum. To learn more about ASU, visit http://asu.edu.

Driving Directions:

ASU's Tempe campus is easily accessible from the AZ Loop 202 - Red Mountain Freeway.  For driving directions, click on the map button below and then select "Directions." 
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Hotel:

Graduate Hotel 
225 E. Apache Blvd.  |  Tempe, AZ  85281
(480) 967-9731

Conference attendees will recieve a special conference rate at the Graduate.  Please be sure to make your reservation early as the rate will expire on January 1, 2017.
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Air Travel

The Phoenix metorpoliatain area is supported by two airports, Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport and Phoenix-Mesa Gateway.  For more information, please click on the airport name.