PROGRAM

Opening Plenary
Welcome: William Kelly, Provost, The Graduate Center
Greetings: Delores Y. Straker, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, CUNY
Remarks: Samuel E. Farrell II, Chair, CAAN
Remarks: James de Jongh, Director, IRADAC
Keynote: Neville Parker, Director, CUNY Institute for Transportation Systems

Concurrent Panels A
I. Language and African Diaspora Culture, Room #C201
Moderator: George Irish, Director, Caribbean Research Center, Medgar Evers College
Standard African-American English, Arthur Spears, City College, Anthropology and
IRADAC Rockefeller Fellow 2000-01
A Community in Action: Literacy Activities of Haitian Students in an After School
Technology Program in New York City, Jean Yves Plaisir, City College, Education

II. Migrating Spirits, Room #C202
Moderator: Regine La Tortue, Brooklyn College, Chair, Black Studies
Migrating Spirits: Cinemas of the Tropical Atlantic, Jerry Carlson, City College, Media
and Communication Arts
Nannies and Other Strangers: Real and Fictive Kinship Ties among Caribbean Domestic
Workers, Marilynne Diggs-Thompson, Hunter College

III. Skin Color and Identity, Room #C203
Moderator: Cynthia Grace, City College, Psychology
Skin Color, Discrimination and Racial and Ethnic Identities among Latinas, Mariolga
Reyes and Deborah L. Coates, City College, Psychology
Blacks Who Resist Passing as White, Lawrence Rushing, La Guardia Community College

IV. The Black Experience in Latin America & Brazil, The Recital Hall
Moderator: Gerardo Renique, City College, History
Afro-Brazilian Response to Racism, Tshombe Miles, City College
The Black Experience in Colonial/ Republican Peru: Evidence from the Water Paintings
of Pancho Fierro, Harcourt Fuller, International Relations, City College,

V. Lifting As They Climbed: African Diaspora Feminists, #C197
Moderator: Jannette Domingo, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Chair, African-
American Studies
Traveling Medicine Chest: Mary Seacole's Journeys to Panama and the Crimea, Cheryl
Fish, Borough of Manhattan Community College, English
Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (1877-1968) and Pan-Africanist Feminism in Ethiopian
Awakening, 1921, Stacey Williams, The Graduate Center, Ph.D. Candidate in Art History

Concurrent Panels B
I. Seneca Village, Room #C201
Moderator: Venus Green, City College, History/ Black Studies
Seneca Village, Cynthia R. Copeland, The New-York Historical Society
The Archaeological Study of Seneca Village, Diana Wall, City College and the Graduate
Center, Anthropology, and Nan A. Rothschild, Barnard College and Columbia University
Seneca Village: Education and Outreach, Herbert Seignoret, City College, Anthropology

II. The Harlem Renaissance, Room #C202
Moderator: Gordon Thompson, City College, English
Walter White and the Premature Postmodernism of Race, Jon-Christian Suggs, Justice
Studies, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
"What Is Africa to Me?" Re-Visioning Countee Cullen's "Heritage," Ira Dworkin, Ph.D.
Candidate, English, The Graduate Center
The Writing Workshops of Langston Hughes, Jonathan Scott, English, Borough of
Manhattan Community College

III. Race and Education: Pedagogy, Room #C203
Moderator: Hubert Dyasi, City College, Education
Ebonics or Crisis in American Education, V. Komi Adjakey, York College
Teaching the Color Line at the End of the Twentieth Century, Barbara Omolade, City
College, Center for Worker Education
A Rose By Any Other Name–Stinks: The Power of Language, Lovelle R. Clarke, City
College

IV. Religion, Language & Culture, Room #C197
Moderator: Donald Robotham, The Graduate Center, Anthropology
The Cuban Abakua Society, Its Language and History, Ivor Miller, Independent Scholar
and IRADAC-Rockefeller Fellow 2000
The Role of Food and Religion in the Accompong Maroon World View, Alice-Baldwin
Jones, Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology, The Graduate Center
Ethnoecological Crisis in Guyana, George Brandon, Sophie Davis School of Biomedical
Education

Lunch

Plenary Round Table, The Recital Hall
Science & Technology in the Study of the African Diaspora
Moderator: Deborah L. Coates, IRADAC, Associate Director,
Neville Parker, Director, CUNY Institute for Transportation Systems
James de Jongh, Director, IRADAC
Claude Brathwaite, Director, CUNY Alliance for Minority Participation in Science and
Engineering
S.E. Anderson, Educational Director, Medgar Evers College Center for Law and Social
Justice

Concurrent Panels C
I. Gifted and Talented Ethnic Minority High School Students, Room #C201
Moderator: Eleanor Thomas, Brooklyn College, Education
Thinking and Writing Skills in High Ability Ethnic Minority High School Students,
Deborah L. Coates, Psychology, City College
Thinking Styles of High School and College Students Across the African Diaspora,
Tiffany S. Perkins, MA, Ph.D. Candidate in Social Personality Psychology, The Graduate
Center

II. Interracial Discourses of the 1920s and 1930s, Room # C202
Moderator: James de Jongh, IRADAC, Director
The Tragic Black "Buck": Jay Gatsby's Passing in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great
Gatsby, Carlyle V. Thompson, Medgar Evers College, Department of LLP
Black Intellectuals and the Spanish Civil War: The Lost History of Nancy Cunard's Anti-
Fascist Efforts, Jane Marcus, City College, Distinguished Professor, English
Revisionist Mythmaking: Scripting Black Discourse in Early Twentieth-Century
American Politics, Josh Gosciak, The Graduate Center, Ph.D. Candidate, English,

III. Race and Education: Public Policy, Room #C203
Moderator: Roscoe Brown, Center for Urban Educational Policy, Director
Still Segregated, Still Unequal: The US Public School System, Jacqueline Mahoney,
Director, John Jay College of Criminal Justice C.O.P.E. Program
African American Presidents in the Post Civil Rights Era, O. Darryl Butler, City College,
Finance & Management

IV. International Relations & Foreign Policy, Room #C197
Moderator: W. Ofuatey-Kodjoe
The Effect of Domestic Considerations on South Africa's Post-Apartheid Foreign Policy ,
S. Ernest Lee, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Ronald A. McNair Post-
Baccalaureate Program
Diasporas: Analytical Relevance for Black Americans in International Politics, Rhonda
L. Johnson, Graduate Center, Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science

Closing Plenary, The Recital Hall
Moderator: Samuel E. Farrell II
Keynote Address: Sonia Sanchez, Poet

Reception, The Recital Hall Lobby