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Sunday, August 11, 12:30pm
THEMATIC
Session 150: Identity: Rethinking Ethnicity and Race in the
21st Century
Room: Imperial
Presiders:
Description:
Pamela Yates, Film Director
Paco de Onís, Skylight Pictures
Sponsor:
Organizer &
Presider:
Description:
Racial and Ethnic Minorities
Crystal L. Jackson, Loyola University Chicago
The session will begin by considering how whites and blacks
make sense of their racial identities amid changing historical
circumstances. Presenters will focus upon how whites’ lived
experiences in racially changing neighborhoods inform their
racial understanding. Within the context of ongoing dialogues on
racial progress, the session will also take a new look at the
discrepancy between the achievements of middle class blacks
and their lived experiences, which tend to offer diminishing
returns on social and economic gains. In the second part of the
session, we expand the discussion to include groups that lie
outside the black/white paradigm that has defined American
society historically. Presenters will examine how racial projects
impacting both Muslim and Mexican Americans inform social
life. We end the session by taking into account how globalization
shapes identity and conceptions of home within two segments
of the Korean diaspora.
Papers:
“White Racial Wisdom: Whites Who’ve Lived Through Racially
Changing Neighborhoods Reflect on Race,” Heather M. Dalmage,
Michael T. Maly and Nancy Michaels, Roosevelt University
“The Black Middle Class: New Insights for the Study of Racial and
Ethnic Inequality in the United States,” Courtney S. Thomas,
Vanderbilt University
“Race, Ethnicity and Religion: Locating and Labeling
Discrimination and Prejudice by Muslims in America,” Saher
Selod, Simmons College
“Mexicans in the United States: Processes of Racialization and
Racial Realities,” Joshua G. LePree, University of Colorado at
Boulder
“Living in Liminality: Ethnic identity construction in the space
between home and the homeland,” Helene K. Lee, Dickinson
College
Session 151: Granito: How to Nail a Dictator
Room: Booth
Sponsor:
Organizer &
Presider:
Program Committee
Graham Cassano, Oakland University
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Granito: How to Nail a Dictator is a story of destinies joined by
Guatemala’s past, and how a documentary film intertwined with
a nation’s turbulent history emerges as an active player in the
present. In Granito our characters sift for clues buried in archives
of mind and place and historical memory, seeking to uncover a
narrative that could unlock the past and settle matters of life and
death in the present. Each of the five main characters whose
destinies collide in Granito are connected by Guatemala’s past. In
1982, Guatemala was engulfed in an armed conflict during which
a genocidal “scorched earth” campaign by the military killed
nearly 200,000 Maya people and disappeared another 20,000.
Now, as if a watchful Maya god were weaving back together
threads of a story unraveled by the passage of time, forgotten by
most, our characters become integral to the overarching
narrative of wrongs done and justice sought that they have
pieced together, each adding their granito, their tiny grain of
sand, to the epic tale. (length: 103 minutes)
SPECIAL
Session 152: Theorizing Social Problems - Linking Research
and Social Work Practice
Room: Broadway I
Sponsor:
Organizers:
Presider:
Description:
Program Committee
Søren Kristiansen, Aalborg University
Maria Appel Nissen, Aalborg University
Søren Kristiansen, Aalborg University
This session focus on the inter-connections between social work
practice, research and the theorizing of social problems. The aim
of the session is, on the basis of a selection of diverse empirically
grounded research projects - some of which are conducted
within the field of social work or among welfare state
professionals - to identify insights and constructs that may prove
useful in terms of theorizing contemporary social problems; in
developing social work practice and for re-imagining the links
between social work practice, research and theoretical
conceptualizations of social problems.
Papers:
“The sociological sense of social problems in social work
practice,” Maria Appel Nissen, Aalborg University
“Capacity development as the answer to social problems,” Mia
Arp Fallov, Aalborg University
“What is poverty? A study of the factors affecting the judgement
of poverty by future welfare state professionals,” Merete
Monrad, Aalborg University