International Conference on Global Racism

University of Kentucky, Lexington

February 22, 2013

– Free event

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

5:00-6:30 pm

The White Racial Frame: Buttressing Oppression

Joe Feagin, Texas A&M

PANEL 1 - RACIALIZATIONS

9:00-11:00 am

White supremacy in Hollywood films

Hernán Vera, University of Florida

Fairer is Beauty: Racism in Postcolonial India

Sasikumar Balasundaram, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Kentucky

Racialization and "Moveable Citizenship: On the Latino/a Dialectics of “Citizenship” And “Belonging”

Suzanne Oboler, John Jay College of Criminal Justice-CUNY

The ‘We/Other’ Cognitive Schema: The Anatomy of Social Transformation in South Africa

Olajide Oloyede, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town/College of Arts and Sciences, University of Kentucky

PANEL 2 - RACELESS RACISM

11:15am-1:15pm

Mestizaje logics: lessons from the workings of racism in Mexico and the struggle for recognition

Mónica Moreno Figueroa, Newcastle University

Racesless Racism? Frenchness and the Future of France

Didier Gondola, Indiana University-Purdue University

From Panacea for Harmonious Race Relations to Ideological Tool for Domination: Reflections on the Use of Métissage through Time and Space in Racialist and Racist Discourses

Jean Muteba Rahier, Florida International University

PANEL 3 - COUNTER RACISM

2:30-4:30pm

Racism, casteism and the potential of counterracist strategies in India and South Africa

Laura Dudley Jenkins, University of Cincinnati, Associate Professor of Political Science

This is Our Home: Multiracial Democratic Transformation of/in New Orleans

Hyun Sook Kim, Wheaton College, MA

An Evolving Global Frame: City College Students Challenge Racism, 1930-1975

Daniel A. Sherwood, The New School for Social Research