The Politics of Identity and Difference in a Global Context

March 4, 2001
3:00pm

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Kim Levinson, Noel Ignatiev, and Becky Thompson

Panelists:

K. Anthony Appiah
Professor of Afro-American Studies and Philosophy, Harvard University; Co-author, Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race; Author, In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture

Noel Ignatiev
Associate Professor of History and American Studies, Masschusetts College of Art; Author, How the Irish became White; Co-editor, Race Traitor; Fellow, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, Harvard University

Rajini Srikanth
Professor of English and Asian American Studies, University of Massachusetts, Boston; Co-Editor, A Part, Yet Apart: South Asians in Asian America and Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America

Ilan Stavans
Professor of Spanish, Amherst College; Author, The Hispanic Condition: Reflections on Culture and Identify in America; Recipient, Latino Literature Prize

Becky Thompson
Professor of Sociology, Simmons College; Author, A Promise and a Way of Life: White Antiracist Activism; Co-author, Names We Call Home: Autobiography on Racial Identity

Phillippe Wamba
Author, Kinship: A Family's Journey in Africa and America

Moderator:
Kim Levinson
EPIIC Colloquium