Fall 2009


The Research to Practice Circle: Preventing Type 2 Diabetes Among American Youth
Dr. Roberto P. Treviño
September 16, 2009
AT Noon-1:00 p.m
Reynolds Medical Building, Lecture Hall II

Youth onset of type 2 diabetes is a growing public health concern. In the U.S. there is an estimated 3 million children with this adult disease. Shockingly, this should not be happening to our youth and we know that the onset of type 2 diabetes is preventable. Dr. Roberto P. Treviño has spent over a decade in medical practice, research, and advocacy aimed at reducing obesity and the susceptibility to type 2 diabetes among youth. He will discuss results from his randomized controlled trial titled, "The Bienestar/NEEMA Coordinated School-Based Diabetes Prevention Program." Researchers, clinicians, and policy makers will be challenged to consider this evidence-based program as a model for collaborative initiatives aimed at reducing risk for type 2 diabetes among youth.

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Sponsor(s): RESI

Too Legit to Quit: How Standards of Specialization in Africana Philosophy are Necessary to Resist the Eurocentric Cooperation of the black Philosophy
Tommy Curry
September 17, 2009
AT 3:45 PM
213 Bolton Hall
Sponsor(s): College of Liberal Arts, Department of Philosophy

Horatio Alger in Short Pants? Class, Race, Sport and the American Dream
Rob Mackin (TAMU Sociology, RESI Fellow, 2008-2009 & Carol Walther (TAMU graduate, Asst. Professor, Northern Illinois University)
September 25, 2009
AT 2:30-4:00 p.m
ACAD 326
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Sponsor(s): RESI

What Awaits Faculty of Color at Predominantly White Universities
Thomas Glave, Koritha Mitchell, Nelly Rosario, Salamishah Tillet, Dagmawi Woubshet
October 5, 2009
AT 9:30AM-12:00PM
Rudder Forum
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Sponsor(s): CALLALOO, The Office of the Vice President & Associate Provost for Diversity, The Office of the Dean of Faculties & Associate Provost, The College of Liberal Arts, The Department of English

The Migration of Louisiana Creoles of Color to Southeast Texas and the Com-plexities of Race and Culture in an African American Community, 1890-1950
Glenn Chambers (TAMU History, RESI Fellow, 2008-2009)
October 9, 2009
AT 2:30-4:00 p.m
ACAD 326
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Sponsor(s): RESI

Pouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the South Tell Their Tales
E. Patrick Johnson
October 12, 2009
AT 7:00pm
Rudder Forum
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Sponsor(s): Performance Studies, Africana Studies

Grantwriting Seminars for 2009-2010 RESI Fellows: Finding Funding
October 20, 2009
AT 10:30-11:30 AM
ACAD 308
Sponsor(s): RESI

Grantwriting Seminars for 2009-2010 RESI Fellows: Evaluating Funding Opportunities
October 27, 2009
AT 10:30-11:30 AM
ACAD 308
Sponsor(s): RESI

Love and Resistance: A conversation with Bell Hooks
Bell Hooks
October 29, 2009
AT 7:00 p.m
Zachry 102
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Sponsor(s): Africana Studies, WBAC, LEAF

Grantwriting Seminars for 2009-2010 RESI Fellows: Preparing a Competitive Proposal
November 3, 2009
AT 10:30-11:30 AM
ACAD 308
Sponsor(s): RESI

An African American Weblog Community’s Reading of AIDS in Black America
Lynette Kvasny(Penn State School of Information Sciences & Technology)
November 6, 2009
AT 2:30-4:00 p.m
ACAD 326
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Sponsor(s): RESI

Grantwriting Seminars for 2009-2010 RESI Fellows: Preparing an Executive Summary
November 10, 2009
AT 10:30-11:30 AM
ACAD 308
Sponsor(s): RESI

Generations of Exclusion: Mexican Americans, Assimilation, and Race
Vilma Ortiz
November 16, 2009
AT 1:30pm
Evans 204E

The Texas A&M Sociology Department Presents "Generations of Exclusion: Mexican Americans, Assimilation, and Race" a colloquium presentation by Vilma Ortiz, Professor of Sociology, University of California - Los Angeles. The presentation is Monday November 16th, 1:30-3:00 pm in Conference Room 204E of Evans Library. Professor Ortiz received her PhD from New York University. She has published widely in the areas of race and ethnicity, minority relations, immigration, Latina/o populations in the United States, and Latino sociology. Her book "Generations of Exclusion: Mexican Americans, Assimilation, and Race" with Edward E. Telles received the Otis Dudley Duncan Award from the Population Section of the American Sociological Association. The book follows Mexican American integration on many different dimensions: education, language use, socioeconomic status, intermarriage, ethnic identity, and political participation. The study contains some encouraging findings, but many more that are troubling. Telles and Ortiz identify institutional barriers as a major source of continuing Mexican American disadvantage.

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Sponsor(s): RESI, MALRC

Grantwriting Seminars for 2009-2010 RESI Fellows: The Logistics of Proposal Submission
November 17, 2009
AT 10:30-11:30 AM
ACAD 308
Sponsor(s): RESI

New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina: Uneven Impact, Uneven Recovery
John Logan
November 18, 2009
AT 6:30PM
Geren Auditorium, Langford Architecture Center, Building B, Room 102

Professor Logan is an urban sociologist whose work is very well known and the topic of how the impact of Katrina and subsequent recovery varies by race and class is of great interest to sociologists. The presentation begins at 6:30pm. It is preceded by a reception at 5:30 in the same location -- Geren Auditorium, Langford Architecture Center, Building B, Room 102. Fun fact – Dr. Logan was/is a mentor to our own Dr. Wenquan (Charles) Zhang. (Dr. Zhang says he taught Professor Logan everything he knows.)

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Sponsor(s): Sustainable Housing Research Unit, the Hazard Reduction & Recovery Center, and the Institute for the Study of Demography and Social Disparities

CANCELLED EVENT: The Influence of Incarceration on Children at the Intersection of Parental Gender and Race/Ethnicity: A Focus on Child Living Arrangements
Holly Foster (TAMU Sociology, RESI Fellow, 2008-2009)
December 11, 2009
AT 2:30-4:00 p.m
ACAD 326

Dr. Holly Foster's talk scheduled for this date/time in ACAD 326 has been cancelled, and will be rescheduled.

Sponsor(s): RESI