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Dr. Henrietta Mann |
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| Dr. Henrietta Mann is a full-blood Cheyenne enrolled with the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. Dr. Mann holds the Endowed Chair in Native American Studies at Montana State University in Bozeman. She taught at the University of Montana at Missoula for twenty-eight years, where she was a professor of Native American Studies. Some of the other institutions included in her thirty years of administration and/or teaching at the higher education level are the University of California at Berkeley; the Graduate School of Education at Harvard University; University of Sciences and Arts in Chickasha, Oklahoma; and Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas. Dr. Mann has served as the Director of the Office of Indian Education Programs and Deputy to the Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Indian Affairs; she was the National Coordinator of the American Indian Religious Freedom Act Coalition for the Association of American Indian Affairs. In 1983, Dr. Mann was selected as the Cheyenne Indian of the Year; in 1987, she was honored as the National American Indian Woman of the Year; and in 1991, Rolling Stone Magazine named her one of the ten leading professors in the nation. In 1997, she was inducted into the Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame at Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford, Oklahoma. She has been an interviewee and consultant for several television and movie productions, and has lectured throughout the United States, Mexico, Canada, Germany, Italy, and New Zealand. Dr. Mann says that in the way of the Cheyenne, all earth is sacred. But perhaps among the most sacred ground in the United States is the site of the former World Trade Center, said Mann, who was among the first Indian spiritual leaders to conduct sacred ceremonies at Ground Zero. Book signing of Cheyenne-Arapaho Education: 1871-1982 (1998) by University Press of Colorado-1:50-2:15 p.m. Informal dialogue with Henrietta Mann-2:30-3:30 p.m. | ||
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Dr. Carlos E. Cortés |
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| Dr. Carlos E. Cortés is a professor Emeritus of History at the University of California in Riverside. Since 1990, he has served on the Summer Faculty of the Harvard Institutes for Higher Education, and is also on the faculty of the Summer Institute for International Communication. The recipient of two book awards, Dr. Cortés also received his university's Distinguished Teaching Award and Faculty Public Service Award, the California Council for the Humanities' 1980 Distinguished California Humanist Award, the American Society for Training and Development's 1989 National Multicultural Trainer of the Year Award, and the California Council for Social Studies' 1995 Hilda Taba Award. A Consultant to many government agencies, and other organizations, he has lectured on the implications of diversity for education, government, and private business throughout the United States, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Australia; and has written film and television documentaries. In 2001, Dr. Cortés received the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators' Outstanding Contribution to Higher Education Award. He currently serves as Cultural Consultant for Nickelodeon's pre-school series, "Dora the Explorer." His two most recent books, The Children are Watching: How the Media Teach About Diversity (2000), and The Making-and Remaking-of a Multiculturalist (2002), were published by Teachers College Press. Book signing of The Children are Watching: How the Media Teach About Diversity-10:00-10:20 a.m. Informal dialogue with Carlos E. Cortés-10:30-11:30 a.m. | ||
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Kip Fulbeck |
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| Kip Fulbeck is a professor of Art and Asian American Studies at the University of California in Santa Barbara. Kip Fulbeck is the world's premiere artist exploring multiracial Asian (or Hapa) identity. An inveterate storyteller, his inspiring personal stories mix pop culture and political activism, questioning the boundaries of cultural identity from the perspective of someone who has never fit neatly into any easy category. He has spent his life battling against multiracial ignorance and stereotypes, and was even denied a place on the Taiwanese Olympic Team after refusing to change his last name. Fulbeck has spoken and exhibited his videos, photography, painting, and performed his stand-up comedy in over 20 countries and throughout the United States, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Singapore International Film Festival, the World Wide Video Festival, PBS, and the Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial. His video work has earned numerous awards, including the USA Film Festival's Special Juror's Award for Some Questions for 28 Kisses; First Glance Film Festival's Best Experimental Film for Sex, Love, & Kung Fu; the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film & Video Festival's Best Narrative Short for Asian Studs Nightmare; and the Red River International Film Festival's First Place Video for Banana Split. In 2002, he was selected by Hapa Issues Forum as the inaugural Prism Award for the Arts recipient. His first novel, Paper Bullets: A Fictional Autobiography, was published in 2001 by the University of Washington Press, and he is currently completing a photographic book on multiracial Asians tentatively titled HAPA: Multiracial Asians in Their Own Words. Book signing of Paper Bullets: A Fictional Autobiography-1:50-2:15 p.m. Informal dialogue with Kip Fulbeck-2:30-3:30 p.m. | ||
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DIVERSITY: EDUCATION FOR AN EMERGING AMERICA
Dr. Roger Wood Wilkins |
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| Dr. Roger Wood Wilkins is a Clarence J. Robinson Professor of History and American Culture at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. A distinguished author, scholar, and public servant, he served as an Assistant Attorney General during the Johnson Administration. As the President of the student chapter of the NAACP at the University of Michigan in the early 1950s, he personally petitioned the Regents on behalf of the three professors who are honored by the Annual Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom. As a journalist, he has written for the New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Washington Star. While on the editorial staff of the Post, he earned a Pulitzer Prize in 1972, which he shared with Woodward, Bernstein, and Herblock, for the Watergate coverage. A past chairman of the Pulitzer Prize Board, he currently serves as Chair of the Board of Trustees of the African American Institute and is a Co-Vice Chair of the Board for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. He is the author of A Man's Life (1982) and editor with former Senator Fred R. Harris of Quiet Riots: Race and Poverty in the United States. Among his many awards are NAACP Legal Defense Fund Pro Bono Award; New York Civil Liberties Union, Roger Baldwin Career Service Award; Los Angeles NAACP, Roy Wilkins Career Civil Rights Contributions Award; WHMM - TV: Host of Interview Series "Washington's Leaders" (1989-1993); and George Mason University Distinguished Faculty Member of the Year (1990-91); as well as seventeen honorary degrees. His most recent book Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism (2001) by Beacon Press will be available for book signing-6:00-6:30 p.m. | ||
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THE
3Rs OF EDUCATION: CULTURAL DIVERSITY, CULTURAL RESPECT, AND CULTURAL
COMPETENCE 
HOW
THE MEDIA TEACH ABOUT DIVERSITY
WHAT
ARE YOU? MULTIRACIALS CLAIMING THEIR VOICE THROUGH THE ARTS
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