Sun, 9 Oct 1994 08:20:44 -0700 for <SOCGRAD@UCSD.EDU>
Date:         Sun, 09 Oct 94 11:09:43 EDT
From: "T R. Young" <34LPF6T@CMUVM.CSV.CMICH.EDU>
Organization: Central Michigan University
Subject:      About the Red Feather Institute
To: GRADUATE STUDENTS IN SOCIOLOGY <SOCGRAD@UCSD.EDU>
Part II of a response to a request by Michael Lichter to let members of
Socgrad know who and what is involved in the mini-lectures by T.R.Young
2).  The RFI was born out of the social turmoil of the 1960s.  It provides
a place for those views and theories excluded from America sociology.  The
RFI supports feminist theory and methodology; cultural marxism, critical
theory, marxist theory and alternative methodologies in the pursuit of
valid social knowledge.  It has four functions:
a) to reflect upon and improve the emancipatory capacity of sociology in
particular and social science in general.
b) to sponsor conferences with which to give excluded voices a hearing.
Bill Domhoff, Jim O'Connor, Barbara Ehrenreich, Elise Boulding, Stanley
Aronowitz and many other speakers were brought into the Institute con-
ferences to give grad students and younger sociologists views and theories
not provided in their graduate work or in standard sociological journals.
c) to provide alternative syllabi to grad students and young professors
around the country.
d) to publish the Transforming Sociology Series.  Some 175 papers have
been published in the Series.  A Black Underclass Series was added two
years ago.  It is edited by Dr. Theodoric Manley at DePaul/Chicago.

  Some of the latest RFI publications can be downloaded via gopher from
the RFI/T.R.Young archives at PSN/UCOLO.  Most of the articles will be
available within the year.
                                                     T.R.Y.