Thursday April 23, 2009 Donaldo Macedo: The Poisoning of Racial and Ethnic Idenitites

 

6:15 pm CERAS 204

pizza and drinks provided

Macedo will discuss the ideological mechanisms that shape and maintain the racist social (dis) order, while moving the race conversation beyond the reductionistic binarism of white versus black racism. Discussing social tragedies, including attacks on immigrants, ethnic cleansing, cultural wars, hegemony, human sufferings, and intensified xenophobia in the United States, Macedo explains why it is essential that we gain a nuanced understanding of how ideology underlies all social, cultural, and political discourse and actions. This lecture shows that it is imperative that we appreciate what it means to educate for critical citizenry in the proclaimed, yet false, post race world of the twenty-first century.

Donaldo Macedo is a full professor of English and a Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Education at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is the Chair of the Applied Linguistics Graduate Department at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He has published more than 100 articles and books in the areas of linguistics, critical literacy, and multicultural education.