Received: from hermes.iupui.edu (hermes.iupui.edu [134.68.220.31]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.8.4/8.8.4/CNS-4.1p-nh) with ESMTP id JAA22293 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 09:30:08 -0600 (MDT) Received: from champion.iupui.edu (ewright@champion.iupui.edu [134.68.220.44]) by hermes.iupui.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id KAA29853 for ; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 10:29:58 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 10:29:57 -0500 (EST) From: "Eric R. Wright" To: Med Soc List Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Colleagues: This e-mail was recently sent to Cathy Riessman who is out of the country. She asked me to include it in the newsletter, but unfortunately, it is already in the mail. Because the request is important and time-sensitive, I am sending it out to you via e-mail. Eric Wright ************************************************************************** >>To: Chairs of ASA Sections >> >>ASA needs your immediate help on a consequential project that we are >>undertaking. As you may have read in my column in the latest issue of >>Footnotes, ASA has been asked by the White House Office of Science >>Technology Policy to prepare a report on Social Science knowledge in >>this area for President Clinton's Initiative on Race, One America. >> >>We want to identify the key researchers, key research areas, and key >>findings in the social and behavioral sciences in order to map the >>domain of race relations and what is known about the causes and >>consequences of racism and racial inequality in our society. >> >>Please read the attached "Call for Help," respond to it, and send it >>forward to relevant members of your sections, announce it in section >>newsletters, and disseminate it to colleagues in other social science >>disciplines. It would be helpful to hear from you and to have a sense >>of the breadth of your dissemination effort. >> >>I look forward to direct mail or your response via ASA's special e-mail >>box raceproject@asanet.org For your information, Pat White (on loan to >>ASA from the National Science Foundation) and Roberta Spalter-Roth, >>Director of the Research Program on the Discipline and Profession are >>helping me on this project. We would value your ideas and any >>suggestions you might have. >> >> >>Thank you in advance for your help. >> >> Felice J. Levine >> >> >>CALL FOR HELP >> >>Social Science Knowledge on Race, Racism, and Race Relations >>An American Sociological Association Project >> >> >>One of the central goals of the President Clinton's Initiative on Race, >>One America, is to "help educate the nation about the facts surrounding >>the issue of race." At the request of the White House Office of Science >>and Technology Policy (OSTP), the American Sociological Association >>(ASA) is preparing a report on social science knowledge on race, racism, >>and race relations. The purpose of this project is to look broadly >>across relevant arenas of research, to explicate what we know, to dispel >>myths and misconceptions where they exist, and to identify research >>gaps. >> >>To fit within the time frame established by the Clinton Administration >>(a final report in summer 1998), ASA is working with challenging >>deadlines. By the end of February, ASA will provide OSTP with a >>distilled analysis and preliminary results for distribution to the >>President's Advisory Board for this Initiative. By May, ASA will >>publish a non-technical monograph and disseminate it widely to >>policymakers, civic organizations, public interest groups, private >>foundations, and professional societies as well as to the media. >> >>In order to accomplish this challenging task in a brief time period, ASA >>needs your help! Our strategy is to cast the widest possible net across >>the social and behavioral sciences in mapping the domain of race >>relations and what is known about the causes and consequences of racism >>in society. We have set up a special electronic mail box >>race.project@asanet.org solely for this purpose. Specifically, we need >>you to identify: >> >>* Key research areas, studies, concepts, and findings in the social and >>behavioral sciences that add to our knowledge of race, racism, and race >>relations. Please include relevant research that is crucial to >>educating Americans about the issue of race. >> >>* Suggestions for mapping social science knowledge on race, including >>ideas about the conceptual framework or germane arenas of research. >> >>* Suggestions for key indicators (with appropriate citations) of racism >>and racial relations including measures of prejudice, tolerance, and >>costs. >> >>* Summaries of and citations to salient social science findings (their >>own or others) that will help Americans to have a constructive dialogue >>about race, including in areas of economic opportunity, housing, >>education, crime, or justice. >> >>* Suggestions of names of social scientists with particularly solid >>knowledge of and judgment about specific domains of research relating to >>race, racism, and race relations. If resources permit, we would like to >>convene a small research synthesis conference. >> >>Please respond as soon as possible to this "call." To be maximally >>useful, we need to hear from you no later than November 10. If >>possible, send your response by e-mail to race.project@asanet.org; or by >>fax 202-785-0146. Please also copy and share this call with appropriate >>colleagues. For more information on this project and updates on this >>call, refer to ASA's home page (http://www.asanet.org/). For more >>information on the White House initiative, see http:// www. >>whitehouse.gov/Initiatives/ >> >>Thank you in advance for assisting in this important opportunity to >>provide social science knowledge for the public good. This project is >>an initiative of ASA's Sydney S. Spivack Program in applied Social >>Research and Social Policy. >> >> American Sociological Association >> 1722 N Street, NW >> Washington, DC 20036-2981 >> 202-833-3410, Ext. 317 >> >> >>