White Privilege Conference
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Keynote Speakers for 2008 WPC9 |
| John D. Palmer, Ph.D. | (Thursday April 3rd 9:15am-10:30am) |
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| Rhea V. Almeida, MS, Ph.D., LCSW | (Thursday April 3rd 1:45pm-3pm) | |
| Salome Raheim | (Friday April 4th 9:00am-10:15am) | |
| Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu | (Friday April 4th 4:30pm-5:45pm) | |
| Professor Joe Feagin | (Saturday April 5th 9:00am-10:15am) | |
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Speakers for 2008 WPC9
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Adams, Willie |
Cleveland, Darrell |
Gooding, Frederick |
Johnson, Allan |
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McNeil, Trevor |
Pewewardy, Nocona |
Shrieber, Sarah, AWARE |
Vernon-Jones, Russ Wall, Vernon Washington, Jamie Wentling, Tre Williams, Raymond Wing, Adrien Katherine Wise, Tim Wong, Catherine Y-Step Young, Heather Zeballos, Jorge |
KEYNOTES:
John D. Palmer, Ph.D., Assistant Professor,
Colgate University (Thursday April 3rd 9:15am-10:30am)
"Karate Chops, Geishas, Nerds, and the Asian Invasion: Reflections of a Korean Adopted American"
Palmer will examine stereotypical portrayals of Asians and Asian Americans in the mainstream U.S. media, and
the impact they have had upon his life, as a Korean Adopted American growing up in a predominantly white and
culturally white environment. He will examine the role these play in limiting identity and perpetuating the
belief that Asian Americans are second-class citizens. This presentation will provide a self-empowering "model"
to challenge these stereotypes and their role in maintaining oppression.
Rhea V. Almeida, MS, Ph.D., LCSW, founder of the Institute for Family
Services (IFS) in Somerset, N.J. (Thursday April 3rd 1:45pm-3pm) (Instituteforfamilyservices.com)
"Enacting Liberatory Practices -- From Critical Consciousness to Action"
Social injustices - including poverty, racism, colonialism, sexism, homophobia and physical ableism - permeate
personal lives. This presentation lays out the Cultural Context Model that challenges this matrix of power,
privilege and oppression, bringing change and liberation to families and communities.
Salome Raheim, PhD, ACSW, Associate Professor (Friday April 4th 6:45pm-8:00pm)
The University of Iowa School of Social Work
http://www.uiowa.edu/~socialwk/faculty/Vita/Raheim_Salome.htm
"Keep Your Eyes on the Prize: The Role of Song in Critical Liberation Praxis"
Historically, song has played a vital role in unifying, empowering and mobilizing people to work toward social justice. Song can be used to construct powerful individual and collective identities and communicate urgency to act in the face of oppressive practices. This performative analysis examines the potential for song to support critical liberation praxis among youth and adults.
Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu, Educational Consultant (Friday April 4th 9:00am-10:15am)
African American Images, Inc.
"An African Centered Response to Ruby Payne's Poverty Theory"
Ruby Payne has become very popular with White educators of African American children. Her work essentially concludes that for students who are not White and middle income, it will be very difficult to reach full potential. In this presentation, Dr. Kunjufu categorically disagrees with this position and will dissect this erroneous race and income paradigm. This presentation will document why the success of a child cannot be determined solely by race, or parental income, asking, how significant (really) is race, income, family structure, or level of parents' education in determining educational attainment? Finally, he will highlight what successful schools are doing in low-income, African American neighborhoods, where children are often fatherless, and mothers often do not have college degrees. This presentation aims to educate the educators - and better equip them to teach African American children.
Professor Joe Feagin (Saturday April 5th 9:00am-10:15am)
The Two Faced Racism
In his talk Professor Joe Feagin analyzes disturbing data on extensive racist commentaries and performances recorded in recent diaries by 626 white college students at 28 colleges and universities. Keeping diaries for 6-8 weeks on average, these "educated" young whites recorded 9,000 accounts of racial events they had observed, about 7,500 of which involved blatantly racist commentaries and actions by whites, many of them friends and relatives. Feagin concludes with a critical assessment of the implications of these data for anti-racist education and interventions.