Race, ethnicity and culture lecture series announced
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8:42 a.m., Feb. 19, 2009----The University of Delaware's Women's Studies Program has announced a spring semester lecture series that will consider “Research on Race, Ethnicity and Culture.”

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This lecture series, held in conjunction with the course Research on Race, Ethnicity and Culture (BAMS/WOMS 298-010), meets each Wednesday from 12:20 to 1:10 p.m. in Room 116 of Gore Hall. The lectures are free and open to the public.

The schedule is as follows:

Feb. 25 - Colette Gaiter, University of Delaware Department of Art, “Modern Life Stories: Rockets and Civil Rights.”

March 4 - Carolyn Byerly, Howard University School of Communications, “Broadcasting from the Margins: Ownership, Voice and Political Power.”

March 11 - Jaehee Jung, UD Department of Fashion and Apparel Studies, “Do Chinese College Men Have More Negative Body Image than U.S. College Men?”

March 18 - Nyasha Grayman, UD Department of Human Development and Family Studies, “We Who Are Dark: The Black Community According to Blacks in the Mid-Atlantic.”

March 25 - Camara Holloway, UD Department of Art History, “Electric-Blues-Face: The Racial Iconography of Rock.”

April 1-Spring break.

April 8 - Ted Davis, UD Department of Political Science and International Relations, “Beyond Class: Other Factors Influencing Black Politics in this Era of Socioeconomic Transition.”

April 15 - University of Delaware Faculty Jazz Ensemble, Department of Music, “The Evolution of Jazz Style over the Course of John Coltrane's Career.” Note special location: Gore Recital Hall in the Roselle Center for the Arts.

April 22 - David Suisman, UD Department of History, “Black Swan Records: The Rise and Fall of the First Black-Owned Record Company.”

April 29 - Mary Ruth Warner, UD Women's Studies Program, “She Put a Spell on Us: Nina Simone, High Priestess of Soul.”

May 6 - A. Timothy Spaulding, UD Department of English, “Duke's Dilemma: Race, Sex and the Cotton Club.”

May 13 - Jean Pfaelzer, UD Department of English, “Roundups and Resistance: the Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans.”

The lecture series is coordinated by Mary Ruth Warner, 831-8474, or [harriet@udel.edu].

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