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ADVISORY BOARD 2007-2008
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
James Anderson, Educational Policy Studies William Berry, Office of the Chancellor Michael Ross, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts Stephen Hartnett, Speech Communication Soo Ah Kwon, Asian American Studies
& Human and Community Development Faranak Miraftab, Urban & Regional Planning Kent A. Ono, Asian American Studies Lissette Piedra, School of Social Work Robert Rich, Institute of Government & Public Affairs Giraldo Rosales, Office of the Dean of Students Jesse Thompson, Human & Community Development Helena Worthen, Labor & Industrial Relations
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A special issue of
Landscape Journal
devoted to the
topic of "Race and
Space." Volume 26,
n.l, Spring, 2007.
Professor Dianne
Harris edits this jour
nal that is based on
papers presented at the CDMS-sponsored
symposium, "Constructing Race: The Built
Environment, Minoritization, and Racism
in the U.S ."
NATIONAL BOARD OF ADVISORS
Bernice McNair Barnett, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Joe Feagin, Texas A&M University Melvin Oliver, University of California at
Santa Barbara
DIRECTOR
Jorge Chapa, Sociology and Latina/ Latino Studies
Critical Whiteness
Studies
CDMS also pub
lished, "Towards
a Bibliography of
Critical Whiteness
Studies," edited by
Tim Engles with an
introduction by David
R. Roediger. This pub
lication is a product of the Critical Whiteness
Studies Group and is available on-line at
http://cdms.ds. uiuc.ed ulResearch_ CD MS/
CriticalWhitenesslIndex.htm
OUR M 5 5 o N
THE CENTER ON DEMOCRACY IN A MULTIRACIAL SOCIETY (CDMS) is a unique interdisciplinary re
search and service institute organized around a commitment to the practice of democracy, equality, and social
justice within the changing multiracial society of the United States. It includes a network of UIUC-affiliated
scholars with an expertise in and sensitivity to the persistent and significant role of race in many aspects of life in
the United States. The Center's three core principles are to: 0 Learn how to fully realize the benefits of diversity,
negotiate conflicts, and form coalitions with individuals and groups of various racial and ethnic backgrounds;
8 Empower members of the University of Illinois community to live in racially diverse communities, maintain
friendships with people of different backgrounds and function more effectively in an increasingly diverse work
place by teaching and learning about racial diversity in formal classroom activities and informal interactions on
campus; and, @) Prepare students for civic engagement and participation in a democratic society.
CDMS Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1 108 West Stoughton MC-253 . Urbano Illinois 61801 Telephone (217) 244-0188 Fox (217) 333·8122 Web cdms.ds.uiuc.edu . Email [email protected]
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CDMS Center on Democracy in 0 Multiracial Society
• CURRENT PLANS
The Center was founded at the recom
mendation of the Chancellor's Diversity Initiative Committee to express a commitment to achieve excellence in the practice of democracy and equality within a multiracial U.S. society. CDMS will honor this intent and respond to recent
campus events by making Race, Diversity, and Campus Climate its priority for the 2007-2008 academic
year and the focus of a major conference to be held April 10, 2008 at the Illini Union.
The goal of the Race, Diversity & Campus Climate conference is to provide information the University of Illinois community can use to make the campus more diverse and more inclusive. The conference will be part of a year-long series of events and activities that will include:
• Research and discussion that could lead to a consensus on valid and useful ways to assess and improve our campus climate;
• Research from the recently established CDMSICHASS (Illinois Center for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science) research group on the Internet
and Campus Climate. The group investigates all aspects of how the internet affects campus climate in either positive or negative ways with a particular focus on these issues at UIDe. The internet is used to build networks of friendships and virtual communities, as well as to serve
as a means of expressing cyber-hatred and cyber-racism. Ultimately, the goal of this research group is to provide
knowledge that can be used to foster a positive and inclusive campus climate;
• Research that results from a forthcoming open call for commissioned papers that will invite widespread input and participation in the conference;
• Findings from the Diversity Research Project. This combined undergraduate and graduate course reviews and evaluates multidisciplinary research and scholarship on approaches that have or could be used to assess the UIUC campus climate. Students in the course also analyze the
research archives of the Ethnography of the University Initiative (EUI);
• Public lectures by invited experts and open forums for UIUC and its surrounding community scheduled throughout the year to build interest and knowledge regarding the conference; and,
• The publication and dissemination of conferencerelated research or presentations.
o THE R CUR R E N T PROJECTS
• MAPPING ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM IN THE CONTAMINATED NORTH END OF CHAMPAIGN, IL
In this research project, Professor Ken Salo seeks to map the social and spatial practices that produce environmental racism in an ethnically diverse, nonwhite, low-income and contaminated community located in North End of Champaign, IL. Research questions posed focus on how resurgent theories on the spatiality of racism can bet-ter explain the persistence of environmental injustices in
these settings as a consequence of larger, trans-local and
uneven urban development processes. Study outcomes will include a mapping from below of toxic sites in the North End that resulted in residents receiving the relationship of places in which they live, work, and play to
those of adjacent white suburbs and downtown. Artifacts of this collaborative research will be archived as products of value to both community activists and academic schol
ars. The study has the goal of engaging historical geographers, planners, landscape architects, and other scholars of critical spatial practices in a debate on spatiality for raCism.
• DIVERSITY AND TECHNOLOGY FOR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Professors Antonia Darder and
Debbie Reese direct this project that is committed to breaking cultures of silence by encouraging and creating spaces where community members engage and document issues related to racism, power, and
privilege at UIVe. Recruiting and teaching students the
necessary technological and interviewing skills to capture
narratives from undergraduate and graduate students,
faculty, staff, and community members will accomplish
this goal. These narratives will further dialogue, analysis, increasingly complex understandings of ourselves, and
the different social relations at UIDe. This project speaks to obstacles related to a general lack of understanding and acknowledgement of diverse populations who attend and live within the UIDC community. The Offices of the
Provost and the Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs also fund this project.
• EDUCATION BEYOND BARS (EBB)
Education Beyond Bars supports the efforts of incarcerated Illinois residents to receive a college edu
cation. Formed in 2006, EBB is currently investigating available
educational resources and prisoner needs, as well as conducting research on the history and cur
rent status of correctional education in Illinois. EBB is funded by the Office of Continuing
Education and the Assistant Vice-President of Academic
Affairs and collaborates with a range of community partners and campus units. It receives administrative suppOrt
from the CDMS. Research reveals that college-in-prison programs reduce arrest, conviction, and re-incarceration rates among released prisoners. Evidence also links the presence of college-in-prison programs to fewer disciplinary incidents within prison, finding that they produce safer environments for prisoners and staff alike. The stron
gest predictor of whether a given person will attend college is whether her or his parents did. When an incarcer
ated person receives a college education, whether or not
s/he is eventually released, her or his children are more likely to pursue their own education.
• EDUCATION OR INCARCERATION? SCHOOL AND PRISONS IN A PUNISHING DEMOCRACY
Professor Stephen Hartnett has spent the past 16 years in
prison activism and scholarship. His ongoing project at CDMS is an edited book that focuses on further diagnosing the prison industrial complex and building a network
for teaching democracy with goals of empowerment.
Public education in the U. S. has suffered a precipitous
decline, while the prison-industrial complex has expand
ed dramatically over the last generations, becoming one
of the fastest growth industries in the U.S. It currently houses over 2.1 million prisoners and supervises another 5 million parolees and probationers. This book tackles the complicated and compelling question of how to reclaim our students, our schools, and the future of democracy by compiling essays by some of the nation's leading
scholars, teachers, artists, and activists.
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APRIL 10. 200B ILLINI UNION
The goal of the Race. Diversity & Campus Climate conference is to provide information the University of Illinois
and other universities can use to make campuses more diverse and inclusive. .1 CDMS
Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society
http:// cd ms.ds. uiuc.edu