Campus Dialogue on Race

October 27 – November 9, 2011

(In)Equality to Equity in Education

Dr. Tyrone Howard

With Keynote Speaker Dr. Tyrone Howard

Tuesday, November 1
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Kate Buchanan Room

For more information contact
Kumi Watanabe-Schook
707.826.5656
kumi.watanabe-schock@humboldt.edu

Why Race and Culture Still Matter: Moving from Inequality to Equity in Education

A nationally recognized expert on diversity issues in education, Dr. Tyrone Howard is Professor and Director of Center X and the Black Male Institute at the University of California Los Angeles. Dr. Howard has appeared on National Public Radio and is a regular urban education contributor to the New York Times. His work has centered on the achievement gap facing African American and other culturally diverse students and the importance of providing teachers skills and knowledge to reverse persistent underachievement. Howard will discuss his new book Why Race and Culture Matter in Schools: Closing the Achievement Gap in America's Classrooms, which explores how greater awareness and understanding of race and culture can improve educational outcomes.

Featured Events

Tuesday, November 1

Book Circle
Special Session for Book Circle Participants: Why Race and Culture Matter in Schools
noon - 2 p.m., Library Fishbowl

Special Session for Students
Dialogue with Dr. Tyrone Howard
3 - 5 p.m., Library Fishbowl

Wednesday, November 2

CAMPUS DIALOG
Special Session for Faculty and Staff
Closing the Achievement Gap
9 a.m. - 11 a.m., Goodwin Forum (NHE 102)

WORKSHOP
Inclusive Pedagogy
9 a.m. - 11 a.m., Goodwin Forum

To visit the Campus Dialogue on Race on Moodle

Event Schedule

Thursday, Oct. 27

Time Event Location
5 p.m. - 7 p.m.

Public Talk: Identity and Resistance Event Presenter: Tim'm T. West

Poetry, hip hop, and other forms of artistic expression can offer powerful counter-narratives to dominant discourses. At the same time, cultural representations also can serve to reinforce stereotypes and inequalities. Poet, activist, educator and hip hop artist Tim'm West will help us untangle the web of art, identity and resistance through analysis, performance, and empowering strategies for change.

 The Great Hall, College Creek

Friday, Oct. 28

Time Event Location
8 p.m. - 10 p.m.

Performance: Ready, Set, Grow: A Coming Of Age Story, Presenter: Tim'm T. West

What becomes of little black boys who have considered suicide robbed of any rites of passage? Moving through the complex maze of American poverty, racism, sexism, homophobia and HIV/AIDS, Ready, Set, Grow suggests that "waiting for superman" may not be as empowering as becoming a super man. Tim'm West offers his own transparent, vulnerable, and redemptive experiences in this moving one-man show.

 Studio Theater (next to Van Duzer Theater)

Monday, Oct. 31

Time Event Location
10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Film Marathon: Film screenings followed by facilitated discussions

10 a.m. - 12 p.m. Shattering the Silences, discussion with Marlon Sherman

12 p.m. - 2 p.m. Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman, discussion with Teresa Grenot

2 p.m. - 4 p.m. Waiting for Superman, discussion with Colleen Eckvahl and Andrew Le (Sociology majors)

 Goodwin Forum

Tuesday, Nov. 1

Time Event Location
11a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Film Screening and Discussion: Pray the Devil Back to Hell Presenter: Megan May (Student in Dept. of Critical Race, Gender & Sexuality Studies) and María Corral-Ribordy (Lecturer in Dept. of Critical Race, Gender & Sexuality Studies)

This film features the recipients of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Leymah Gbowee, Tawakul Karman, and Africa's first freely elected female head of state, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf. It documents the story of a group of ordinary Liberian women who came together to create inspiring social change in their own country against political adversity, climbing over religious, class and geo-political barriers. Discussion after the film screening will focus on strategies for change and empowerment, as well as, the power of women working together to inform a world view which promotes peace.

 Gist Hall 218
Noon - 2 p.m.

Book Circle with Tyrone Howard: Why Race and Culture Matter in Schools

 Library Fishbowl
3 p.m. - 5 p.m.

Special Session for Students: Dialogue with Tyrone Howard

 Goodwin Forum
6 p.m. - 8 p.m.

Keynote: Why Race & Culture Still Matter: Moving from Inequality to Equity in Education. Guest Speaker: Tyrone Howard

 Kate Buchanan Room

Wednesday, Nov. 2

Time Event Location
9 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Campus Dialogue: Closing the Achievement Gap Guest Facilitator: Tyrone Howard

Bring your ideas and questions to this solutions—based, interactive discussion on closing the achievement gap. Led by Tyrone Howard-educator, researcher and author of Why Race and Culture Matter in Schools—this conversation will contextualize the issue of inequitable achievement in schools while focusing on generating institutional and individual strategies for affecting change. All faculty, staff and administrators are invited to attend. Please RSVP through the HSU Training website.

Goodwin Forum
Noon - 2 p.m.

Workshop: "Inclusive Pedagogy" Presenter: Tyrone Howard

Educator, researcher and author Tyrone Howard will facilitate this interactive workshop dedicated to examining how to effectively understand and examine the complexities of race and culture within the domains of teaching and learning. This session will address concrete strategies and approaches that can be used to create more inclusive learning and work spaces that recognizes the multiple identities that participants bring along racial, cultural, gender, social class, and sexual orientation lines. All educators are invited to participate, and lunch will be provided. Please RSVP through the HSU Training website

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

Workshop: Post Affirmative Action Era in Higher Education
Presenter: Jacqueline Nagatsuka (Office of Institutional Research & Planning)

The post Affirmative-Action era has led to vast differences in educational opportunities for underrepresented minority students at selective public institutions in the state of California. How could new legislation mitigate these challenges.

 Nelson Hall East 106
3 p.m. - 5 p.m.

Workshop: Social Justice Summit Community Gathering Presenters: Xuan Bernal & Melissa Estrada, Coordinators of 2012 Social Justice Summit

Come join us at the brainstorming session for next year's Social Justice Summit. The Summit will shed light on DREAMers and all the obstacles that stand in their way. Each year approximately 65,000 undocumented students graduate from high school and are denied the basic right to pursue a higher education. We are hosting an open space where we will be screening clips from the documentaries: Papers(which will be officially debuted on opening night for the Social Justice Summit), The Other Side of Immigration, & An Unfinished Dream. These short clips will be followed by a facilitated discussion regarding how these clips bring new insight to the term "DREAMer" & "undocumented student" which are this year's main focus for the Social Justice Summit.

Goodwin Forum
3 p.m. - 5 p.m.

Film screening and discussion: The Color of Fear (For Faculty, Staff & Administration Only) Presenters: Brian McElwain (Counseling & Psychological Services), Tracy Smith (Educational Opportunity Program - EOP) & Steve Smith (College of Natural Resources & Sciences)

If racism is a system of advantages—and disadvantages—based on apparent racial differences, then it must be understood systemically, i.e., in terms of historical, cultural, ideological, political and institutional contexts. And as participants in all of these contexts, racism touches each of us on an individual level that is often emotionally charged in ways that make honest self reflection and conversation difficult. This forum for screening and discussing The Color of Fear will provide a space for such self reflection and conversation as the film documents an example of a transformative weekend for a multiracial group of men

 Goodwin Forum
5:00 p.m. - 9 p.m.

Interactive Theater Tunnel of Oppression Presenters: HSU Housing Staff

First showing at 5 p.m.
Second showing at 7:30 p.m.

Tunnel of Oppression is an introductory experience in understanding oppression through a theater activity known as Theater of the Oppressed. Tunnel is an interactive event that educates participants about issues of oppression, privilege and power, while giving participants the tools to recognize and address issues of injustice. This event will challenge participants to reflect on their own experiences, hear the experiences of others, engage in dialogue about social justice and practice strategies for creating a socially just community.

The J - first floor
6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Film screening and discussion: "Tim Wise: White Privilege" Presenters: Members of M.E.Ch.A. de HSU

This film offers a unique, inside-out view of race and racism in America. Expertly overcoming the defensiveness that often surrounds these issues, Tim Wise provides a hard-hitting, yet non-confrontational explanation of white privilege and the damage it does not only to people of color, but to white people as well. So come out and join us.

Gist Hall 218

Thursday, Nov. 3

Time Event Location
10 a.m. - Noon

Workshop: Bias Response Team at HSU Presenter: Jennifer Eichstedt (Bias Response Team Coordinator/Dept. of Sociology)

Bias incidents and hate crimes affect all campus members' abilities to be fully engaged in our education. The new Bias Response Team at HSU is designed to help us move from inequality equity to equity on our campus. Participants will engage hands on and will explore the examples of bias provided by participants themselves, and by how the Bias Response Team helps in these situations.

 Nelson Hall East 113
12:30 - 1:50 p.m.

Racializing Raven: Race and Gender in the That's So Raven Show Presenter: Ramona Bell (Dept. of Critical Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies)

The That's So Raven Show exemplifies the complex processes of cultural production and consumption as it relates to the construction of black girl identity—the intersection of race, gender, class , and sexuality. The struggle of the representation of blackness and womanhood in American media is well documented by scholars. However, since the growth of the field of Girl's Studies in the mid-1990s in the United States, little attention has been given to African American girls. This presentation addresses this gap by interrogating the cultural messages that are signified in representations of girl culture in Disney's That's So Raven Show.

 Goodwin Forum
2 p.m. - 3:50 p.m.

Workshop: Race, Gender, Sexuality and the Prison Industrial Complex: The Case of the New Jersey 7 Presenter: Jessica Whatcott (Dept. of Critical Race, Gender, & Sexuality Studies/Sociology)

Join the Sociology/Women's Studies 316 class as we examine the case of the New Jersey 7 to understand how the criminal justice system in the United States is caught up in systems of racism, sexism and heterosexism. In 2006, 7 young African American lesbians were charged with felony "gang assault" charges after a fight broke out between them and a man who had sexually propositioned and then attacked them when they refused his advances. A campaign continues to seek justice for the women who argue that they were acting in self-defense.

Goodwin Forum
3 p.m. - 5 p.m.

Film Screening and Discussion: The Color of Fear (For Students Only) Presenters: Brian McElwain (Counseling & Psychological Services), Tracy Smith (EOP) & Steve Smith (College of Natural Resources & Sciences)

If racism is a system of advantages—and disadvantages— based on apparent racial differences, then it must be understood systemically, i.e., in terms of historical, cultural, ideological, political and institutional contexts. And as participants in all of these contexts, racism touches each of us on an individual level that is often emotionally charged in ways that make honest self-reflection and conversation difficult. This forum for screening and discussing The Color of Fear will provide a space for such self-reflection and conversation as the film documents an example of a transformative weekend for a multiracial group of men.

 Native American Forum (BSS)
4 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Workshop: Meeting Content Standards with Social Justice Education Presenter: Robert Robinson (HSU Graduate/2004; MA in Education/San Diego State University)

We will have a discussion about the direction of public education and the expectations of teachers. Our conversations will also delve into how we can empower students in the secondary classroom while meeting the California content standards. Most examples will be for the language arts and social science classroom, but there will be opportunities for all content areas and grade levels to share ideas.

 Nelson Hall East 106
6 p.m. - 8 p.m.

Dialogue: "Equitable Education Rountable" Presenters: Patty Yancey, Nora Wynne, Robert Robinson, María Corral-Ribordy, Trinidad Caballero, Yuri Gamboa, Araceli Larios, Daniel Robinson, Alexandra Solano, Nina Ziccone and Nikola Hobbel

Join a conversation with educators and students about the ongoing struggle for meaningful equity in education. With no Superman on the horizon, what systemic changes will make a lasting difference? How can our strategies for change account for the role of history, race, economics, public policies, and resistance movements?

 Kate Buchanan Room
6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Film Screening and Discussion: We Still Live Here: Âs Nutayuneân Presenter: Marlon Sherman (Dept. of Native American Studies)

The Wampanoag saved the Pilgrims from starvation, and lived to regret it. Spurred on by their celebrated linguist Jane Little Doe Baird, the Wampanoag of Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard are reviving their language more than a century after the last native speaker died. The story begins in 1994 when Jessie Little Doe, an intrepid, thirty-something Wampanoag social worker, began having recurring dreams: familiar-looking people from another time addressing her in an incomprehensible language. Jessie was perplexed and a little annoyed— why couldn't they speak English? Later, she realized they were speaking Wampanoag, a language no one had used for more than a century. These events sent her and members of the Aquinnah and Mashpee Wampanoag communities on an odyssey that would uncover hundreds of documents written in their language, lead Jessie to a Masters in Linguistics at MIT, and result in something that had never been done before — bringing a language alive again in an American Indian community after many generations with no Native speakers.

Morris Graves Museum, Eureka

Friday, Nov. 4

Time Event Location
10 a.m. - Noon

Workshop: When Content, Context, Culture, Classroom and California Clash Presenter: Robert Robinson (HSU Graduate/2004; MA in Education/San Diego State University)

What happens when there are rarely any teachers of color on a high school campus? How do we meet all of the needs of the students when the teaching staff doesn't reflect the ethnic diversity of the students? How do budget cuts affect school tensions? What role do racial politics play at a public school? These are all questions that could spur the lengthiest and most heated teacher's lounge conversations, and for this reason, they are often avoided. In this workshop, we will ask some of the difficult questions in hopes of spurring similar dialogue at our respective school sites. This is open to students, teachers, administrators, parents, and anyone who is willing to engage in the difficult discussions surrounding, race and its impact on schools.

Nelson Hall East 106
11 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Film Screening & Discussion: Performing the Border Presenter: Kimberly Berry ( Dept. of Critical Race, Gender & Sexuality Studies)

Film screening and facilitated discussion of Performing the Border, a film by Ursula Biemann. This video essay is set in the Mexican-U.S.border town of Ciudad Juarez, where U.S. multinational corporations assemble electronic and digital equipment just across from El Paso, Texas. Discussion will foreground an intersectional analysis of race, gender, class, sexuality and nation on the US-Mexico border.

Founders Hall 206
1:30 p.m. - 3 p.m.

Coming to Town: Racism in our Backyard Presenters: Rosalie Armijo, Nicole Bennett, Marquitta Morgan, Samantha Yazbek (students) and María Corral-Ribordy (Lecturer in Dept. of Critical Race, Gender & Sexuality Studies)

Following the racially motivated murder of Reginald Clark in Eureka, California during the first week of October many community members organized "No Hate Here"—a gathering to discuss healing and to use the grief as the spark to actively develop strategies to address the violence in our communities.

Coming to Town, will be an opportunity for all members of the campus community to join in the dialogue and address the violence that happens within Humboldt State University—our own backyard. Additionally, the presenters will share a report on the feedback and ideas generated by the participants of "No Hate Here" as well as their own observations of the event.

Through interactive and small group discussions the presenters seek to promote an ongoing dialogue on the persistence of interpersonal intolerance and institutional prejudice that together promote violence against individuals due to their identity(ies) such as race, gender, sexuality, immigration status and religion among many others. The participants to this event will reflect on the impact of hate-motivated violence by creating an altar for the victims of hate violence. Importantly, we recognize that educational tools to effectively combat oppression and violence in the community can only be developed collectively.

Rosalie Armijo is a CouRaGeouS major with an emphasis in Women's Studies. She is interested in literature, sex positivity, animal liberation and baking pies.

Nicole Bennett is completing a CouRaGeouS major focusing on the Multicultural Queer Studies pathway. She loves to work for social justice, learn about Queer theory, and kayaking though finding time for everything is hard.

Marquitta Morgan is nearly a senior double majoring in LSEE and CRGS; she is interested in changing how we function as a society through teaching and making children aware of the issues we face.

Samantha Yazbek, is also a CouRaGeouS student, an activist and a writer. Samantha is imminently publishing a collection of her poetry—whose proceeds will benefit the local organizations working to eradicate sexualized violence.

María Corral-Ribordy is a lecturer in both the Department of Critical Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and the Department of Sociology. María credits a significant and indisputable portion of her own learning about schools and social equity to the extraordinary experience of raising her two courageous sons, now 19 and 20 years-old.

Nelson Hall East 113
2 p.m. - 5 p.m.

Celebration: Hip Hop de los Muertos Presenters: Members of M.E.Ch.A

This event will highlight Dia de los Muerto, which is the celebration in honor of people who have died. There will be altars with different themes that raise awareness of the struggles of people of color. Workshops about the different altars and history will be presented.

 Kate Buchanan Room & Karshner Lounge
7 p.m. - 9 p.m.

Film Screening & Discussion: Urban Roots

Benefit screening of Urban Roots to raise money for Tree Media Foundation. Tree Media, the creators of the 11th Hour with Leonardo DiCaprio has recently released Urban Roots, a documentary that follows the urban farming phenomenon in Detroit. Urban Roots covers the vibrant emergence of farming it shows people from all walks of life, and all ages and races coming together to create community based on growing food. Urban Roots is a timely, moving and inspiring film that speaks to a nation grappling with collapsed industrial towns and the need to forge a sustainable and prosperous future. A portion of proceeds from the film will go to putting Farms in Schools.

Mad River Brewery (101 Taylor Way, Blue Lake)
7 p.m.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

Comedic Performance: Latinologues @ HSU Directed by: Wendy Gonzalez (Student in Dept. of Social Work)

An HSU student production, Latinologues™ is an award winning, nationally recognized collection of comedic and poignant monologues about the Latino experience in America that was created, written, directed and produced for stage by Rick Najera, one of America's leading comedy writers. Monologues to be performed include: Slow Guy, The Janitor, The Producer, The Prostitute and The Waiter.

Studio Theater (next to Van Duzer Theater)
9 p.m. - 11:30 p.m.

Music Performance: Hip Hop de los Muertos HSU Latino Community

Hip Hop de los Muertos will end with a concert of music and spoken word. Featured artists express the singularities of contemporary Latin@ identity, but also strongly identify with their indigenous roots.

Kate Buchanan Room

Saturday, Nov. 5

Time Event Location
12:30 p.m.
Doors open at noon

Comedic Performance: Latinologues @ HSU Directed by: Wendy Gonzalez (Student in Dept. of Social Work)

 Studio Theater (next to Van Duzer Theater)
2 p.m. - 6 p.m.

Music Performance: Hip Hop de los Muertos Presenters: Members of M.E.Ch.A

 Los Bagels, Arcata (1085 I Street)
7 p.m.

Film Screening: Viva Mexico Presenter: Daniela Contreras (Terra Nostra Films)

In a journey from the mountains of southeastern Mexico to the northern border with the United States, Subcommander Marcos and the people of Mexico trace the forgotten face of a country. Viva Mexico is a celebration of the struggle for land and dignity. For more details, go to: www.vivamexicofilm.com

 Goodwin Forum
7 p.m.

Poetry Performance: Poetry Is Not a Luxury Presenters: Members of the Black Student Union

 Kate Buchanan Room

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday Nov. 7, 8, & 9

Time Event Location
6 p.m. 9 p.m.

Annual Q-Fest: (Qross Qultural Queer Film Festival)

- Children of God
- XXY
- Saving Face

For more information visit humboldt.edu/multicultural.

 Gist Hall 218

Equitable Education Roundtable Panelists

Nikola Hobbel researches the intersections of educational policy, multiculturalism, and curriculum. Her work includes analyses of the standards movement in the United States, as well as the cultural construction of the "good teacher" in globalized contexts. Recent publications include the edited text "Social Justice Pedagogy across the Curriculum: The Practice of Freedom" (with Thandeka K. Chapman, Routledge, 2010) and the article "A Social Justice Approach as a Base for Teaching Writing" (with Thandeka K. Chapman and Nora Alvarado) in the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy (2011).

Robert Robinson received his B.A. from HSU in 2004 in English with a minor in Ethnic American Literatures. He earned his teaching credential from Point Loma Nazarene University, and his M.A. in Education with a focus on Secondary Curriculum & Instruction from San Diego State University. Robert's research interests are Ethnic American Literatures, parent-teacher dialogue, Culturally Relevant Pedagogy, social justice education, coalition building, music for social change, and college prep for underrepresented high school student populations. As a San Diego teacher for nearly seven years, his goal is to use the students' life experiences and cultural background as a part of the curriculum, a springboard for meaningful analysis and discourse. He is also eager to see grassroots organization surrounding the arts and education. Robert plans to pursue a doctorate in in Ethnic Studies.

Nora Wynne has taught high school Spanish for six years locally and currently teaches at McKinleyville Middle School as a Spanish teacher. She is a lecture in the in the Education Department at HSU. She serves as the president of the Charter Council at Fuente Nueva Charter School, a Spanish immersion school in Arcata. She finished her MA in Education in May 2008 with a focus on homophobia and racism in relation to teacher preparation.

Patty Yancy is a Professor in the School of Education and a Faculty Associate in the Office of Diversity and Inclusion at Humboldt State University. She presently teaches Fine Arts in the Integrated Elementary Curriculum, Multicultural Foundations, and Teaching and Learning for the Elementary Education credential program; and Pedagogy: Research and Practice and Qualitative Research Methods for the Master of Arts in Education Program. Her research interests include arts education, charter schools, and diversity in higher education; and her creative interests include collage, assemblage, and printmaking. Dr. Yancey earned her M.A. and Ph.D. at the Graduate School of Education at University of California, Berkeley; and her B.A. in Fine Arts at American University in Washington, D.C.

María Corral-Ribordy is a lecturer in both the Department of Critical Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and the Department of Sociology. She completed her B.A. in Ethnic Studies from U.C. Berkeley in 1998 and an M.A. in Education in 2007 at Humboldt State University. María was a founding member of The New Village Community Charter School in Oakland, California and served in the Board of Directors from 1997-8. Her master's thesis focused on the intersections of gender, nationality, race, immigration policy. Specifically, she explored the educational outcomes of children attending public schools in a rural, northern California community whose mothers must contend with the challenges to survival peculiar to an undocumented immigrant status. María credits a significant and indisputable portion of her own learning about schools and social equity to the extraordinary experience of raising her two courageous sons, now 19 and 20 years-old.

María's Sociology Students:
Trinidad Caballero
Yuri Gamboa
Araceli Larios
Daniel Robinson
Alexandra Solano
Nina Ziccone