For Immediate Release Contact: Judith Schwartzstein, Tel. (914) 395-2219 Fax. (914) 395-2638, Email. judiths at slc.edu
Conference on Race and Identity at Sarah Lawrence College October 12-13
Kenneth Clark to be Honored
Yonkers, August 28 -- Sarah Lawrence College will host a conference on race and identity October 12-13, 2001, bringing together prominent African American psychologists. The conference, Race and Identity: Perspectives on American Society, is designed to clarify what we know about race and to assess its impact on American culture as well as the psychological make-up of American citizens. The conference will honor the work of Kenneth Clark whose research on the development of self-consciousness and racial identification in Negro children played a crucial role in the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 decision Brown v. Board of Education.
Kenneth Clark was the first African American to receive tenure at the City College of New York, to be elected president of the American Psychological Association, and to serve as a member of the New York State Board of Regents. Professor Clark gained national reputation as the founder and director of Harlem's Northside Center for Child Development.
"This conference gives us a forum to rethink the question of race in American culture and at the same time to reassess the commitment of social psychology to this issue," said Gina Philogene, coordinator of the conference and member of the psychology faculty at Sarah Lawrence College. "Fifty years after the launching of a very long process aimed at desegregating the culture, it is appropriate for us to celebrate Kenneth Clark and to honor him for the crucial role he played in setting this process in motion."
"Black scholars in psychology have had a lot to say on the subject of race and each of the invited participants has made important contributions. However, they have not previously had a chance to share and discuss their work with each other in a formal conference setting," said Philogene.
The conference will open on Friday, October 12 at 2 p.m. Professor Clark will be awarded an honorary degree by Sarah Lawrence College at 3 p.m. There will be limited public participation in the conference. For more information, please call (914) 395-2400.
The following panel discussions will be held:
Friday, 10/12, 3:30 - 5:00 Creating an Identity
Panelists: Robert Sellers, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
William Cross, CUNY Graduate Center
Gina Philogene, Sarah Lawrence College
Claude Steele, Stanford University
Saturday 10/13 9:30 - 11:30 Racism and its Cultural Manifestations
Panelists: Lawrence Bobo, Harvard University
James Jones, University of Delaware
James Jackson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Sandra Graham, University of California, Los Angeles
Jim Sidanius, University of California, Los Angeles
Saturday 1/0/13 1:30 - 3:00 Our Common Destiny
Panelists: Thomas Petigrew, University of California, Santa Cruz
Fathali Moghaddam, Georgetown University
Kay Deaux, CUNY Graduate Center
Fran Cherry, Carleton University
Sarah Lawrence College for women and men is a liberal arts college, founded in 1926, with a distinctive system of education. It is known for having one of the lowest student/faculty ratios in the country. At the core of the system are small classes, regular one-on-one student-faculty conferences, cross-disciplinary approaches and the integration of the creative arts within the curriculum.
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