2004 Race, Gender & Class
Annual Conference
Thursday-Saturday
September 23-25, 2004
"Race, Gender & Class and Global Justice"
Hampton Inn
Downtown / French Quarter Area, New Orleans
The struggle is always there.
It gets discouraging sometimes. It gets very disenchanting sometimes. Some of us are trying to build a society of social justice. We struggle against racial, gender and class inequality, but it seems that our head is going against a concrete wall. It seems to mean nothing.... Well, that is the story of life. And the thing that makes us happy is that we can hear a voice crying through the vista of time, saying: "It may not come today or it may not come tomorrow, but it is well that it is within our heart. It's well that we are trying." We may not see it. The dream may not be fulfilled, but it's just good that we have a desire to bring it into reality. It's well that it's in our heart.
Adapted and modified by Jean Ait Belkhir from "Unfulfilled Dreams," by Martin Luther King, Jr., April 3, 1968, "The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.," edited by C. Carson, 1998, p. 356ff
Co-Hosting Institutions
Southern University at New Orleans
University of New Orleans
Xavier University of Louisiana
Conference Supporters
Al Sharpton National Action Network
Yeshiva University, New York, Wurzweiller (School of Social Work), Florida International University (Center for Labor Research and Studies) , Florida Atlantic University,
Wellesley College (Africana Studies), University of Toronto (Department of Education and Sociology), Youngstown State University (Center for Working Class Studies)
Thursday, September 23
3:00 - 8:30 pm
UNO Conference Center
Registration Services and Exhibit Area
5:30 - 7:00 pm
Pre-Conference Symposium
Have Urban Schools Failed or
Has the Reform Movement Failed Urban Schools?
Greetings: Leeta Allen-Haynes, Dean, SUNO Graduate Studies Program
Speaker: Louis F. Miron, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Discussant: Leetta Allen-Haynes
Student Panel Respondents: Nicole Montrell, Eric Greeley, Trenisha Stanislas, Urban Education Program, Southern University at New Orleans
Symposium Moderator: Raynard Sanders, Southern University at New Orleans
Reception/Dinner
The Gravier Room, 7:15 pmRGC Registrants Dinner
Friday, September 24
8:30 - 9:45 am
The Gravier Room
Plenary Session
Introduction of Speaker: George Amedee, Southern University at New Orleans
New Orleans Welcome by Ray Nagin
Mayor City of New Orleans
2004 Annual RGC Conference Welcome by
Jean Ait Belkhir and Lenus Jack Jr., SUNO RGC Project
Mackie J. V. Blanton, Associate Dean, University of New Orleans
(Multicultural Affairs) Susan Mann, University of New Orleans (Sociology)
Beverly Mason (Sociology), Pamela Waldron-Moore (Political Science),
Xavier University of Louisiana
Plenary Speaker
Speaker Introduction by Rev. Kenneth Thibodeaux
Sociology Southern University at New Orleans RGC Student
Rev. Dr. Zebadee Bridges Sr.
Race, Gender, & Class Issues in New Orleans
Regular Sessions Begin
10:00 - 11:30 am
RGC: Culture, Room 205
Moderator: Tonette Rocco, Florida International University
Gregory A. Salters, Florida International University, Cultural Competence and
Law Enforcement in an Urban Environment
Tonette Rocco, and Gregory A. Salters, Florida International University, Expanding the
Boundaries of Urban Education
Dawn Emerson Addy, Florida International University, Miami Mosaic: Forming Community
in an Urban Environment
Sunny L. Munn, Kendra Davitt and Sara Rinfret, The Ohio State University, Privilege: Uncovering
the Meaning of White, American, and Female
RGC in the Struggle for Global Justice, Room 207
Organizer: John Berg, Suffolk University / Oxford University, Race, Gender & Class in the
Struggle for Global Justice in the USA
Ilene Feinman, California State University Monterey Bay, Gendering Social Movements: Feminist and
Antiracist Agenda in Democratic ActionRon Hayduk, Borough of Manhattan Community College, Democracy for All: Restoring Immigrant
Voting Rights in the U.S.
Effects of RGC in Children and Adolescent Young Adult Literature, Room 209
Organizer: Jo Ann Bamdas, Florida Atlantic University
Introduction to Topic, Presenters, and Panel Discussion: Is it Necessary for Literature to Be Divided into Categories to See Improvement in Race, Gender & Class? with Janaka N. Bowman, Northwestern University, Emily Kathryn Anderson, University of California-Riverside; Melissa Crofton, University of South Carolina; Paul Mahaffey, University of Montevallo; Wendy Rountree, North Carolina Central University; Abbie E. Ventura, Illinois State University; Anne Moore, University of Vermont; Nancy L. Huse, Augustana College
Jo Ann Bamdas, Seeing Clearly Now with the Harry Potter Novel Series: Inverting the Bureaucratic and Hierarchical Power Pyramid Scheme
Emily Kathryn Anderson, University of California-Riverside: Broom Closet Encounters and Covert Common Rooms: The Place of Femme Slash in Harry Potter Fan Fiction Communities
RGC: Psychology, Room 210
Moderator: Christiane Charlemaine, Southern University at New Orleans
Catherine L. Packer, The University of Georgia, Understanding the Impact of Maternal Messages Given to Single, Educated African American Women
JaNae' Taylor, The University of Georgia, Creating and Nurturing Equal Opportunity in Education
Cheryl Leary and LeJean Jones, Southern University at New Orleans, Black Personality Theory, and the World Views Perspective; Implications for Cultural Competence in Psychology
Rodney Morrison, Ted Nelson, and Torrey Eubaire, Southern University at New Orleans, Internalized Racial Oppression: Conceptualizing Domestic Violence
RGC: Race, Room 215A
Moderator: Felix James, Southern University at New Orleans
Belinda Boyd, University of Central Florida, Creative Projects in Theater on Racism and Sexism
George Dei, University of Toronto, Anti-Colonial Thought and Development Practice in the South
Juanita Johnson-Bailey, University of Georgia, Black Feminism: Every Day Perspectives
Talmadge C. Guy, The University of Georgia, The Black Culture Industry and Constructions of Race and Gender in Gangsta Rap
RGC: Class , Room 215B
Organizer: Joan Clingan, Prescott College, Voices Heard on Race and Class
Roundtable panelists invite the audience to join us in an open discussion about the intersections of race and class, with Joan Clingan and Christina Lawson, Prescott College, Barb Jensen, Metropolitan State University, and Gail Wallace, Iowa State University
11:30 am - 1:30 pm
Lunch on your own
French Quarter Restaurant List Available
1:30 - 3:00 pm
RGC: Culture, Religion, Room 205
Organizer: Ashraf Esmail, Southern University at New Orleans
Anna E. Lamikanra, West Virginia State University, and Ashraf Esmail, Southern University at New Orleans,
The History of Islam, Arabism or Arabization of Islam, Women and Islam,Sarah Waters, Independent Scholar, Robert Waters Jr., Southern University at New Orleans,
How Music Can Unite and Divide a Nation: Calypso and Steelpan in Guyana
Effects of RGC in Children and Adolescent Young Adult Literature, Room 207
Moderator / Organizer: Jo Ann Bamdas, Florida Atlantic University
Nancy L. Huse, Augustana College, Making Up (for) History: Children's Books and Women's Agency
Abbie E. Ventura, Illinois State University, "Where the Sidewalk Ends:" The Suppression ofImagination in Suburban Spaces
Melissa Crofton, University of South Carolina, Breaking Through the Barriers: Updating Shakespeare
in the High School Classroom
RGC: Issues of Theory, Room 209
Organizer John Berg, Suffolk University / Oxford University, Race, Gender, Classin the Struggle for Global Justice: Issues of Theory
GL Tyler, UC Boulder/Independent Scholar, Global Democracy: Homogenization of the other throughRhetoric and Force ... Why It Is Better to be like Us Than Like You: Examining the PresidentialRhetoric of Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush.
Erica Townsend-Bell, Washington University in St. Louis, Impediments to Women's Mobilization in Uruguay
Frances Henderson, Washington University in St. Louis, Beyond the Organization of Mozambican
Women: Gender and Democracy in MozambiqueGiorgi Katsiaficas, Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, The Universality in the Particular:
Race, Gender and Class as Transcendental Concepts
RGC Issues, Room 210
Moderator: Mark Evces and Mahlet Endale, University of Georgia,
A Support Group for Newly Arrived Refugee Single Liberian Mothers
Sunny L. Munn, The Ohio State University, Paternal Rights
Stacey Brown Lindsay, UConn School of Medicine, Teenage Pregnancy: An Alternative Perspective
Tuere Bowles, University of Georgia, Gender and Knowledge Construction in the Environmental Justice Movement: Black Women Activists in Louisiana
Romanus Ejiaga, Southern University at New Orleans, Understanding the Gender Wage Gap in Nigeria: An Economic History of Igbo Women
RGC: Psychology, Room, 212
Moderator: Thomas Hebert, Southern University at New Orleans
Nancy Green, University of Cincinnati, Anti-Multicultural Perspective in Assessment for Mental Professionals
Elliot Hammer, Xavier University of Louisiana, Two Sides of In-Groups Bias:
The Black Sheep Effect in Minority GroupsKenzie E. Ownby, The University of Georgia, Education of Female Immigrants in the United States:
A Proposal for School Communities in Assisting Educational and Cultural TransitionsGuillarne Leary, Brian Howell, Sr., and Marque Anthony McClain, Southern University at New Orleans,
Cultural Competence in Psychology: African American Student Perspectives
RGC: African Women, Room 215A
Organizer: Njoki Wane, University of Toronto
Njoki Wane, University of Toronto, African Women's Literature and its Contribution to Scholarship:
An Analysis of Bushi Emecheta's (1970) Book: Joys of MotherhoodEkua Quansah, University of Toronto, Examining our Presence:
Women of African Ancestry's Scholarship in the Canadian AcademyErica Neegan, University of Toronto, Black Caribbean Women's Writing in the Academy
Bathseba Opini, University of Toronto, The Token Representation of Women
with Disabilities' Scholarship and Literature in the Academy
RGC: Class, Room 215B
Organizer: Joan Clingan, Prescott College, Intersections of Race and Class in Literature
Lisa A. Kirby, North Carolina Wesleyan College, Shades of Passing: Interrogating Racial and Socioeconomic Masking in Roth's "The Human Stain and Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby."
Will Watson, University of Southern Mississippi, Not Bein' Brung up to it: The Racial Logic of Class
Formation in the Adventures of Huckleberry FinnJoan Clingan, Prescott College, Contextualizing Class and Race in the US Literature
3:15 - 4:45 pm
RGC: Politics, Room 205
Moderator: George Amedee, Southern University at New Orleans
George Amedee, Southern University at New Orleans,
The Politics of Residential Segregation and African-Americans
Lenus Jack Jr., Southern University at New Orleans, On the Cusp: RGC and Historical Periodization
Rose M. Harris, Nicholls State University, How Race, Class and Gender has been Theorized in Feminism
Alvin Mitchell, Delgado Community College, and Ashraf Esmail, Southern University at New Orleans,
The Effects of Knowledge on Attitudes Toward the Death PenaltyPaul C. Mocombe, Florida Atlantic University, Who Makes Race Matter in Post-Industrial Capitalist America?
RGC: Class , Room 207
Organizer: Mary Finn, University at Buffalo, Educating Working Class Students in Their Own Self-Interest
Alex Caputo-Pearl, Crenshaw High School at Los Angeles, Kahllid Al-Alim and Frances Martin:
Anti-Racist Movement Building: Pressure Campaigns and PedagogyJeffrey M.R. Duncan-Andrade, University of California at Los Angeles,
Preparing for the Urban in Urban TeachingPatrick Finn, University at Buffalo, Teacher Education with an Attitude
Gillian Richardson and Rosemary Murray, Canisius College,
Developing Critically Reflective Practitioners in Working Class Schools
Effects of RGC in Children and Adolescent and Young Adult Literature, Room 209
Moderator / Organizer: Jo Ann Bamdas, Florida Atlantic University
Paul Mahaffey, University of Montevallo, The Adolescent Complexities of Race, Class, and Gender
in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye: A Critical Study
Janaka N. Bowman, Northwestern University, Revisiting Pecola Breedlove:
Adolescence, Trauma, and Respectability in "Push" and "The Bluest Eye."
Wendy Rountree, North Carolina Central University, Teach Them While The're Young: The Function of
Race, Gender and Class in Jacqueline Woodson's: "I Hadn't Mean to Tell You This"
Anne Moore, University of Vermont, There Wasn't Any (Barnado) Boy:
Gender, Ethnicity and Work in "Anne of Green Gables."
RGC: Gender, Room 210
Moderator: Terrance Lewis, Southern University at New Orleans
Sudipta Das, Southern University at New Orleans, Life in a Salad Bowl: Asian-American Family Life,
Marriage & Economic Status in the United StatesAna Adriazola-Rodriguez, Florida Atlantic University, Bolivian Andean Women, Rape, and Plunder
in Raza de Bronce by the Bolivian Writer Alcides ArguedasPamela Higgins Saulsberry, The University of Louisiana, Monroe, The Issue of Father's in the Family
Han Yu, Illinois State University, Good Girl and Bitch, Do I have to be One?
RGC: Class, Room 212
Moderator: Roxanne Rimstead, University of Sherbrooke-Quebec
Roxanne Rimstead, University of Sherbrooke-Quebec, Poverty Narratives: Radical Reading Strategies
Across the DisciplinesTonette S. Rocco, Florida International University, Class: Disability Disclosure and Status
Bill Hetrick and Marion Elaine Graham, Bethel College, Gender and Class Oppression in Fiction and Reality: Retail Anecdotes from Emile Zola ("The Ladies Paradise") and Barbara Ehrenreich (Wal-Mart)
Laurence Tan, Coalition for Educational Justice, Demanding Meaning in Urban School Curriculum
RGC: Education, Room 215A
Workshop Organizer: Beth Kelly, DePaul University, with Linda Williamson Nelson, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Shattering Silences: Class, Education, and Solidarity in Three Women's Lives
RGC: School Desegregation, Room 215B
Organizer: Ross Louis, Xavier University of Louisiana
Ross Louis, Lakeshia Entzminger, Laketa Entzminger, Nichole Guillory, Maryse Holly, and Jenais Means, Xavier University of Louisiana, Brown vs Board of Education through the Eyes of Service-Learning:
Using Race, Gender & Class to Re-Examine School Desegregation
5:00 - 6:30 pm
RGC: Education, Room 205
Moderator: R. Kirk Mauldin, University of Wisconsin Stout, Race, Gender & Class in the Classroom
Christina Lawson, Prescott University, Higher Educational Ideologies of Latino Families in the Southwest
Pauline Bullen, University of Toronto, Zero Tolerance to Intolerance: Building an Inclusive School Culture
Karen Powell Sears, University of Connecticut, Extending Disidentification Theory:
The Effects of Self-Concept Definition on Academic Performance of Connecticut High School StudentsElaine Yuen, University of Toronto, Confronting Exclusion and Racism in Parent Involvement
Effects of RGC in Children and Adolescent, and Young Adult Literature, Room 207
Panel Discussion with Jo Ann Bamdas, Emily Anderson, Abbie Ventura, and Nancy Huse, Is Harry Potter for Children, Adolescents, Young Adults, or Adults? Stop, Look, and Listen to Themes of Race,
Gender & Class in the Magical and Muggle Worlds of J.K. Rowling and Harry Potter
RGC: HBCU, Room 209
Moderators: Beverly Mason and Pamela Waldron-Moore, Xavier University of Louisiana
Beverly Mason and Pamela Waldron-Moore, Xavier University of Louisiana,
Etiology of Student Retention at HBCUsJuanita Johnson-Bailey, University of Georgia, Hitting and Climbing the Proverbial Wall:
Participation and Retention Issues Among Black Graduate WomenPamela Waldron-Moore, Elizabeth Smith Rousselle, Leslie Richardson, Holly Lorrits, Kristina Robinson, Xavier University of Louisiana, The Challenges of Starting a Women's Studies Program at an HBCU
RGC: Politics, Room 210
Moderator: Ding W. Kuo, Southern University at New Orleans
Ericka Akins and James H. Adams, Mississippi State University, Obesity and Welfare Women:
How Obesity Relates to UnemploymentShana Miller, Xavier University of Louisiana, Race, Gender, Class, and Sports
Marianne R. Swain, Florida Atlantic University, Moral Outrage Translated into
a Political Agenda: Gender Equity
RGC: Family, Room 212
Organizer: Ruby C. Lipscomb, University of Cincinnati,
RGC Intervention with Children, Adolescents, and Families
Ruby C. Lipscomb, University of Cincinnati, Brown vs. Board of Education
Revisited with Implications for Social Work Practice
Tamea F. Jones and Ruby C. Lipscomb, University of Cincinnati,
Lighthouse Youth Crisis Center, Breaking the Cycle of Youth Violence
Steve Green, and Ruby C. Lipscomb, University of Cincinnati, Strengths of
African American and Mexican American Families
RGC: Motivation & Achievement, Room 215A
Organizer: Priscilla Dross-Marcial, Florida International University
Mark D. Shermis, Dawn Addy, Tonette Rocco, Priscilla Dross-Marcial, Florida International University, Motivation and Achievement among Adults and Adolescent Educators in Response to the No Child Left Behind Act
Nichole Ray and Mariana Souto Manning, The University of Georgia,
Negotiating Race, Gender & Class in the Ivory Tower: Black and Brown Women's Narratives
RGC: Media , Room 215B
Moderator: Cecelia Baldwin, San Jose State University
Cecelia Baldwin, San Jose State University, Female Sexualized Imagery as a Function of Race, Power and Class:
A Perceptual Analysis of Teenage Girls' Reactions to AdvertisingSherry Charles, Independent Scholar, The Way We Ought to Live Now:
How Martha Stewart Cultivates Class by Teaching Good TasteMiranda Brady, Pennsylvania State University, Native American Voice and Mass Media:
Participation and representation in the Public SphereJamel Bell, University of Kansas, Race, Gender & Class and Media
Damion Wayner, Minority Opinions Go Public:
Implications for Online Issues Management and the Spiral of Silence Hypothesis
Saturday, September 25
8:30 - 10:00 am
RGC: Social Work Forum (8:30 -11:45 am), Room 210
Moderator: Ira A. Neighbors, Southern University at New Orleans
James H. Adams, Mississippi State, and Natalie G. Adams, The University of Alabama,
Examining Gender in Welfare-to-Work Programs
David Cramer, Ira A. Neighbors, Lyndia Green-Faust, and Joy McElveen, Southern University at New Orleans,
with Audrey Plessy (MSW) and Jessica Strange (BSW) A New Paradigm in Parenting for African American Families
William Stewart, Southern University at New Orleans,
Recidivism in the Juvenile Justice System - Is Race a Factor?
Ira A. Neighbors, Southern University at New Orleans, Origin of Forensic
Social Work from an African American Perspective
Eloisa Gordon-Mora, Director of Government Relations, Safe Horizon, The Elephant in the Living Room:
Race, Class, Family Violence, and the New York City Foster Care Program
Cheryl Mills, Southern University at New Orleans, Issues and Solutions:
The Disproportionate Representation of African American Males in the Juvenile Justice System
Ron Mancoske and Harry Doughty with Sean Reed (BSW), and Marc Holmes and John Labee (MSW )
Southern University at New Orleans, African American Male Gender Specific Issues in Social Work
RGC: Cultural Identity Workshop, Room 209
Organizers: Tonette Rocco and Dawn Emerson Addy, Florida International University
RGC: Reparation and Current Politics, An Update, Room 207 (8:30 - 11:45 am)
Moderator: Rhonda Miller, NCobra
Panel Discussion: Charles Siler with Muhammad Yungai,
Walter Umrani (Muhammad Mosque), Aletha Strong (N'Cobra).
Forum: Education & Student Panel: Urban Schools,
Room 212: 8:30 - 11:45 am
Forum: Education
Moderators: Raynard Sanders, Southern University at New Orleans
and Paul Green, University of California-Riverside
Raynard Sanders, Southern University at New Orleans, The Creole Cottage Project
Paul Green, University of California-Riverside, Equality of Opportunity Versus Equality of Results
Tyrone Tanner, Texas Southern University, and Leetta Allen-Haynes, Southern University at New Orleans,
The Role of Chinese-American and African-American Parents in the Academic Achievement of their Children
Peter Mok, and Leetta Allen-Haynes, Southern University at New Orleans,
Historically Black Colleges and University: Lagging Behind in Distance Education
Bobbie L. Stevenson, Southern University at New Orleans, More than Warm-Ups and Handouts:
A Result-Based Model for Professional Development for Urban Schools Student Panel: Urban SchoolsJames A. Taylor, William R. Picard, and Richard A. Baker, Southern University at New Orleans,
Equal Educational Opportunity for All: Males and FemalesTammy Fields, Southern University at New Orleans,
Building and Improving the Reading Comprehension of urban Minority StudentsCeya Simon, Southern University at New Orleans,
Vocabulary Acquisition to Improve Reading Comprehension for urban StudentsEric Greely, Southern University at New Orleans,
High Schools Graduate Exist Exams Impact on urban High School StudentsJuaquana Stanislas, Southern University at New Orleans,
Teacher Attitudes Toward TeachingStrategies in Language Arts for Ninth Grade Urban High School Students
10:15 - 11:45 am
RGC: Academy / Community, Room 205
Organizer: Jeanne Curran, Michael Griffin, and Patricia Acone, California State University, Susan Takata and Elise Zevitz, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Model for Academy/Community Learning and Interaction
Local UNO/SUNO RGC Student Roundtable Discussion, Room 212
Organizer: Susan Mann, University of New Orleans
Elise Chatelain, The Signification of Family Structure on Children's Body Types: An Analysis of the
Discursive Connection Between Single-Mother Families and Obese Children.Judith Mays, Linking Social Structure, Social Conditions, and Personal Health for Poor Black
Citizens of New OrleansDavid Johnson, Outsourcing: Middle Class Drain or Third World Gain?
Sonia Ladha, Mind and Body: An IntersectionCarolyn Croom, Experiences in Education in an Urban Community: Different Educators' Perspectives
Tyesha Kelly, Poems and Poetry Related to African American in Social Work
Eola Roy, Dual Diagnosis: The Nexus Between HIV/AIDS and Mental Illness in African Americans
RGC: Business Meeting, Room 207
Cancelled: Closing Session
11:45 am - 1:00 pm, Room 212
Walden Bello, University of the Philippines Diliman
An international academic social activist and leading voice from the South, struggling against poverty, inequality, injustice and oppression, who on December 8, 2003 received the Right Livelihood Award,
which is regarded as the Alternative Nobel Prize
The Global Justice Movement and Race, Gender & Class Issues
Announcement:
Dr. Bello cannot come owing to confinement at the hospital
for dengue fever