23 Feb 96 16:41:32 -5 Date: Fri, 23 Feb 96 16:40:57 EST From: coatesrd@casmail.muohio.edu (Rodney Coates) Reply-To: coatesrd@casmail.muohio.edu (Rodney Coates) To: AFAM-L@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu, AFROAM-L@HARVARDA.HARVARD.EDU, ABSLST-L@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU, Racial-Religious-EthnoNationalist Violence Studies Subject: Check it out, information you can use Dear Colleagues: Check it out, information you can use: This will be an exciting conference as we debate these issues less than one month from the 1996 Presidential Election. W.E.B. Du Bois Conference on Conservatism, Affirmative Action, Gender, and Public Policy Issues in the 21st Century Gender, and Public Policy Issues in the 21st Century October 17-19, 1996 Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio 45435 Conference Overview America is witnessing a dramatic transformation of its urban population. Experts estimate that by the year 2050 white non-Hispanic Americans will compose more than 50% of the population. Given this fact, it appears that the social, economic, and political forces of our society have begun to ready themselves for economic, and political forces of our society have begun to ready themselves for either a reversal of this trend or an incorporation of nonwhite Americans into its sociopolitical and legal structures (i.e., political correctness, diversity, enterprise zones, immigration policies). What is clear from this forecast is that we are likely to see an increase in ethnocentric, racist and sexist reactions to demographic shifts in the American population. As the Conservative Right begins to address these concerns what was once politically incorrect may become politically correct, signaling the end of more than thirty years of liberal progressive policies. This conference will survey the social, economic, and political climate of the U.S. by examining contemporary issues of race/ethnicity, immigration, gender and public policy. Scholars presenting papers on these issues are: Joe R. Feagin, University of Florida Nancy A. Denton, University at Albany John R. Logan, University at Albany Cedric Herring, University of Illinois at Chicago Sharon M. Collins, University of Illinois at Chicago Edna Bonacich, University of California at Riverside James E. Jacob, University of California at Chico Karyn Loscocco, University at Albany Anne R. Roschelle, University of San Francisco Willie Avon Drake, Virginia Commonwealth University John Sibley Butler, University of Texas at Austin You may contact Holiday Inn, Fairborn, Ohio (513) 426-7800 for room Reservations under the Conference Name Du Bois. For more information E-mail MDurr@Desire.Wright.Edu "Only when lions have Historians will hunters cease being heroes." African Proverb UMOJA, Still in the struggle Rodney D. Coates Director of Black World Studies Associate Professor of Sociology Miami University Oxford, Ohio - 45056 PH: 513-5291235