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Faculty coedit major interdisciplinary volume of
native South American studies
Whitewashing Race honored
by Hooks Institute
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June 14, 2004
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Faculty coedit major interdisciplinary
volume on native South American studies
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John Schechter (left) and Guillermo Delgado-P.
with Louisa Stark, an Andean studies scholar and a retired professor
of anthropology and linguistics.
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Music professor and Merrill College provost John M. Schechter and Latin
American and Latino studies lecturer Guillermo Delgado-P. have coedited
a major interdisciplinary volume on Quechua (native South American)
linguistics, cultural studies, comparative literature, ethnohistory,
and ethnomusicology.
Titled Quechua Verbal Artistry: The Inscription of Andean Voices
/ Arte Expresivo Quechua: La Inscripción de Voces Andinas,
the book contains 19 scholarly papers addressing Quechua verbal artistry,
as evidenced in colonial Quechua manuscript and myth, and in contemporary
Quechua song text, riddle, narrative, poetry, market dialogue, and children’s
stories. Represented among its authors are internationally known scholars
from nine countries: Bolivia, Peru, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, United
Kingdom, United States, Ecuador, and Colombia.
The book contains analysis of numerous dialects of Quechua/Quichua
and Aymara from Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia. A distinctive
feature is the use of different fonts throughout the volume to reflect
Quechua or Aymara, versus Spanish, roots and suffixes. The papers are
in either English or Spanish, with all the Quechua texts translated,
accordingly, into English or Spanish.
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Whitewashing Race
honored by Hooks Institute
The 2003 book Whitewashing
Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind Society, coauthored by UCSC
professors Michael K. Brown and David Wellman and five other scholars,
has been named the first recipient of the Benjamin L. Hooks Outstanding
Book Award.
Brown and Wellman, professors of politics and community studies, respectively,
were lead authors on the book, which shows the cumulative effects of
inequality on blacks and the long-term positive benefits of institutional
discrimination for whites. A compelling analysis of the institutional
roots of racial disparity in the United States, the book includes discussion
of ways to transcend insitutionalized racism in today’s post-affirmative
action era.
D’Ann R. Penner, codirector of the
Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change, called Whitewashing
Race a "remarkable piece of collaborative scholarship. We at
the Hooks Institute hope that its arc of influence will be as wide as
possible."
The award will be presented at a ceremony and public lecture to be
held at the University of Memphis. Each author will receive a framed
certificate.
In addition to Brown and Wellman, coauthors of the book are Martin Carnoy,
professor of education and economics at Stanford University; Elliott
Currie, a research associate at UC Berkeley; Troy Duster, professor
of sociology at UC Berkeley; David B. Oppenheimer, associate dean for
academic affairs and professor of law at Golden Gate University; and
Marjorie M. Shultz, professor of law at UC Berkeley.
The Benjamin L. Hooks Institute
for Social Change is a University of Memphis research center dedicated
to advancing understanding of the legacy of the American civil rights
movement through academic research and community programs on the civil
rights movement, race relations, strong communities, public education,
and economic development. The institute honors the legacy of Benjamin
L. Hooks, who was executive director of the NAACP from 1977 to 1992
and was the first African American appointee to the Federal Communications
Commission, serving from 1972 to 1978.
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