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Sessions
General
Session
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Dr. Molefi
Kete Asante
Suzuko
Morikawa
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Issues
Faced by African-American and Asian Authors
Saturday,
June 21, 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.
Las Vegas Room
Presenters:
Dr. Molefi Kete Asante, Professor, Department of African American
Studies at Temple University, and Suzuko Morikawa, Associate Professor
of History at Chicago State University
This panel
will explore issues faced by African-American and Asian authors,
such as:
- What special
barriers, if any, do African-Americans and Asian authors have
in confronting (unspoken and unwritten) theoretic biases of
journal editors? Are some editors simply not open to theoretic
approaches outside of a narrow mainstream?
- To what
extent do authors of color feel they are engaged in a balancing
act, wanted to address minority audiences via specialized publication
outlets, but also needing to be noticed (for tenure, promotion,
etc.) by colleagues who only read more mainstream, "unmarked"
outlets?
- To what
extent do authors of color experience "ghettoization" in the
sense that their expertise is only recognized when they talk
about civil rights and other "Progressive Politics" issues?
How does such a dynamic affect minority authors' academic and
possible textbook publishing?
- If most
established textbook authors are Caucasian, do potential authors
of color experience a disadvantage when it comes to being invited
to serve as a co-author (especially if by aging authors ready
to pass on the reins)?
- What can
TAA do to encourage more diverse authorship of all kinds?
About the
Presenters:
Dr. Molefi
Kete Asante is a Professor in the Department of African American
Studies at Temple University. He is considered by his peers to
be one of the most distinguished contemporary scholars. He has
published 65 books, among the most recent are The History of
Africa: The Quest for Eternal Harmony (2007), Cheikh Anta
Diop: An Intellectual Portrait (2006), Spear Masters: Introduction
to African Religion (2007), Handbook of Black Studies,
(2005), co-edited with Maulana Karenga, Encyclopedia of Black
Studies, (2004), co-edited with Ama Mazama, Race, Rhetoric,
and Identity: The Architecton of Soul, Erasing Racism: The Survival
of the American Nation, (2003), Ancient Egyptian Philosophers
(2003), Scattered to the Wind, Custom and Culture of Egypt,
and 100 Greatest African Americans. The second edition
of his high school text, African American History: Journey
of Liberation, 2nd Edition, (2001), is used in more than 400
schools throughout North America.
Suzuko
Morikawa is currently an Associate Professor of History at
Chicago State University. She earned a B.A. in European and Asian
Studies (International Culture) at Ferris University in Yokohama,
Japan, and continued her education in the African American Studies
program at Temple University in Philadelphia, the first Ph.D.
program in African American Studies in the nation. Dr. Morikawa
was the first student from Japan to be awarded both a Masters
and a Ph.D. from this program. Her area of research centers on
comparative historical studies between African Americans and Asian
Americans in 20th century United States, as well as the history
of the slavery in the Americas, and Africans in the diaspora.
Her works have been published in The Journal of Black Studies,
in addition to entries in The Encyclopedia of Black Studies,
Asian American History and Culture: an Encyclopedia, and Emerging
Voices: The Experiences of Underrepresented Asian Americans.
She is currently revising chapters in her book project, Portrait
of Pan-Ethnic Consciousness: A Comparative Study of Pan-African
and Pan-Asian Ideologies as Responses to Racism in the United
States.
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