2009 - 2010 Academic Year Events
Tuesday, October 6th, 2009 Multicultural Welcome Dinner and Dessert Reception for New Students 5:00 - 6:30 pm California Mission Room (Dinner) 7:00 - 9:00 pm, Shapell Patio (Dessert) This annual celebration welcomes first-year and transfer students of color to Santa Clara University. This event is a great opportunity for you to meet current students, faculty and staff to find out more information about cultural programs, activities, and resources on campus. A first year experience will also be shared by an SCU sophomore taking a "look back". This event is co-sponsored by the Office for Multicultural Learning-Office of the Provost, and the Multicultural Center. By invitation only. Thursday, October 8th, 2009 Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
Rich Benjamin, author: "Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America" (October 2009) will speak about his new book. Rich Benjamin is a scholar, lecturer, and commentator on contemporary American politics and culture. He was educated at Stanford University, where he received his PhD in Modern Thought and Literature, and he served as a visiting scholar at Columbia University Law School. Benjamin is currently a senior fellow at DEMOS, a progressive national think tank based in New York City. SEARCHING FOR WHITOPIA is his first book. Books will be available for purchase after the event. Your America, The Two Americas: a discussion with Rich Benjamin BOOK DESCRIPTION: A gifted black journalist's frightening narrative exploration of-- and revelations about-- the new migrations of white Americans from increasingly diverse suburbs to fast-growing enclaves of white homogeneity. "Searching for Whitopia" delves into the hearts and homes of white Americans who are fleeing the cities and states where they are increasingly the minority for small towns and exurban areas that are virtually all white. Rich Benjamin dubs these places "Whitopias" (pronounced "White-o-pias"). Benjamin, a black American with a companionable writing style, lived for three months among white Americans in three Whitopian enclaves: Forsyth County, Georgia; Coeur d'Alene, Idaho; and St. George, Utah. Through experiencing real people and unearthing startling statistics, Benjamin shows how global, economic and migratory forces have created a perfect storm of anxiety among many white Americans--and he looks with them as they try to find and hang on to a lost America. Through memorable characters and scenes, the book focuses on this phenomenon in a way that does justice to its psychological and cultural implications as well its possible impact on the future of the United States. The book includes chapters written after President Obama's election. Co-sponsored by the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, the Office for Multicultural Learning-Office of the Provost, the Commonwealth Club, and the Multicultural Center. Thursday, October 29th, 2009 The bicentennial of Latino newspapers in the The program includes a preview screening of the documentary "Voices for Justice: The Enduring Legacy of the Latino Press in the U.S.", an exhibit showcasing key Latino newspapers and the stories they have reported over the past 200 years, and a PowerPoint presentation by Félix F. Gutiérrez, Professor of Journalism, Communication and American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, a Latino media journalist and scholar for more than 40 years. "For more than 200 years Latino newspapers have been Voices for Justice in a nation that promises justice, but does not always deliver it to all within its borders," Gutiérrez said. "The progam will show how newspapers advocated independence and freedom across the hemisphere, spoke against Yanqui violence after the U.S. took the Southwest from México, helped newcomers become Americanos, encouraged young Latinos to advance themselves in the 1930s and 40s, were advocates for Chicano and other liberation movements of the 1960s and 70s, and are a growing force in U.S. as other media declare bankruptcy." Félix Gutiérrez is a Professor of Journalism and Communication in the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication and an Affiliate Professor of American Studies & Ethnicity. A former Senior Vice President of the Freedom Forum and the Newseum, his responsibilities during 12 years in philanthropy included journalism education and professional grants and programs, establishing and supervising Pacific Coast Center programs in Oakland and San Francisco, and researching diversity exhibits for the Newseum to open in Washington, D.C. in 2008. Claudia Núñez, a reporter for La Opinión newspaper in Los Angeles, documented the struggles of Oaxacan villagers who were lured to San Jose and Los Angeles by false promises of well-paying jobs, then ended up as virtual slaves in small restaurants and taquerias. Her reports on human trafficking challenged the Latino community to acknowledge exploitation from within. Co-sponsored by the Office for Multicultural Learning-Office of the Provost, the Latino Faculty Group, MEChA, and the Communication Department. Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 Co-sponsored by the Office for Multicultural Learning-Office of the Provost, and the Ethnic Studies Program.
Thursday, January 28th, 2010
Co-sponsored by the Office for Multicultural Learning-Office of the Provost, the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, the University Council on Inclusive Excellence, and the School of Education. Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
Troy Duster earned his B.S. degree in journalism from Duster became professor of sociology and Director of the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge at Duster is co-author of Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind Society (2003), which won the Benjamin Hooks Award and was a finalist for the C. Wright Mills Award in 2004. Among his other awards are a Guggenheim Fellowship at the London School of Economics; an honorary Doctor of Letters from Co-sponsored by the Office for Multicultural Learning-Office of the Provost, the Biology Department, the University Council on Inclusive Excellence, the Markkula Center for Applied of Ethics, and the School of Education. Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010 Wednesday, April 21st, 2010 Presented by the LGBTQ Allies Network, a joint initiative of the Office for Multicultural Learning-Office of the Provost, the Office of Student Life, and the Women's and Gender Studies Program.
Thursday, May 20th, 2010 Featured Speaker: Edward Tom, star of the film and principal of the Bronx Center for Science and Mathematics. Please RSVP to Pauline Nguyen. Co-sponsored by the Ethnic Studies Program, and the Office for Multicultural Learning-Office of the Provost.
Thursday, June 10th, 2010 Pan-African Senior Ceremony
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