Developing a Transformational Ethnic Studies in a Period of Crisis and Resistance
Rose M. Brewer
Friday, 25 Feb 2011 at 12:10 pm – Gallery, Memorial Union
Rose M. Brewer is the Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor in the African American & African Studies Department at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. She has written extensively on Black women and families, race, class and gender, and political change. She is the coauthor of The Color of Wealth and, most recently, The United States Social Forum: Perspectives of a Movement, 2010. She is the coeditor of Bridges of Power: Women's Multicultural Alliances and Is Academic Feminism Dead: Theory in Practice. Brewer earned her Ph.D. in sociology from Indiana University and completed postdoctoral studies at the University of Chicago. The Future of Ethnic Studies Summit Keynote Speaker.Registration is required to attend this event, which includes a free buffet luncheon: http://www.las.iastate.edu/cais.
The Future of Ethnic Studies is an academic summit for teachers, administrators and students that will focus on conducting teaching and research in ethnic studies at institutions of higher education in Iowa as well as around the country. Mark Grey, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Northern Iowa and Director of the Iowa Center for Immigrant Leadership and Integration, will deliver the morning address. Other presenters include faculty and staff from Grinnell College, Mount Mercy University, Cornell College, the University of Northern Iowa and Iowa State University.
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