Extra Credit Opportunity Ronald Takaki: A Five-Year Retrospective

11:45 AM - 1:30 PM Tuesday, September 19 Multicultural Center (Main 232)

Five days after 9/11 Professor Takaki delivered the 2001 Distinguished Lecture. He abandoned his prepared talk on multicultural America and instead cautioned us about the dangers of nationalism, racism, and reaction in view of what just happened.

Dr. Hal Bertilson and Dr. Marshall Johnson (Sociology) have thought a great deal about that night and we would both like to invite eveyone to a lunch hour vieiwing and discussion of Takaki's talk now five years out.

Attend this video and discussion and write a two-page reaction paper. You will receive five points added to you test score total.

Ronald Takaki has been a professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley for three decades. He is author of Iron Cages: Race and Culture in 19th Century America, From Different Shores: Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity, Violence in the Black Imagination: Essays and Documents, A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America, and Debating Diversity: Clashing Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity in America.