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Talk aims to mend dialogue on race
■ A conference helps
teach educators how to
treat race honestly and
without learned stereotypes
By Serena Markstrom
Oregon Daily Emerald
In a proactive effort to address
increasing diversity in the Unit
ed States, the college of educa
tion launched Wednesday the
initial forum of what will soon
become the Institute for Leader
ship and Diversity Issues in Edu
cation.
In the two-day conference that
began in the Gerlinger Lounge,
more than 100 administrators,
superintendents and teachers
from around the state tackled is
sues of race and how to incorpo
rate it into classrooms.
Mia Tuan, a University sociol
ogy professor who guided the
keynote address, presented the
question “Why is it difficult to
talk about race.”
Tuan began her presentation
with facts. By the year 2050 , she
said, the United States will only
be about 50 percent white. One
of the first places this demo
graphic change will be felt is in
educational settings.
“Big cities are leading the way,
but Oregon is no exception,”
Tuan said.
The fastest growing minority
group in Oregon is Latino/as. By
the year 2012, high school class
rooms will be 19 percent Lati
no/a and 70 percent white, down
from 89 percent in 1996, accord
ing to statistics from the Western
Interstate Commission for High
er Education.
Stating that reckoning with
and discussing race is a lifelong
process, Tuan said she hoped the
conference would open a dialog.
“There’s no silver bullet,”
Ryan Starkweather Emerald
Mia Tuan, a University sociology professor, speaks during the initial forum of what
will soon become the Institute for Leadership and Diversity Issues in Education.
Tuan said of being able to effec
tively talk about race and racism.
Tuan showed part of the film
“Skin Deep,” which is a docu
mentary about college students
from diverse backgrounds talk
ing honestly about race.
Thursday’s participants began
to work on being open with race
in Kesho Scott’s interactive
workshop. Scott, a professor of
American studies at Grinnell
College in Iowa, has been giving
diversity workshops for 16 years.
Sitting was not an option as
Scott kept participants moving
with role-playing demonstra
tions, jogging in place and sitting
backwards in chairs.
Throughout the three-hour
workshop, Scott also had partic
ipants lean to the left to illustrate
the sense of discomfort necessary
in relearning how to think about
race, society and each person’s
role in it.
The purpose of the conference
was to aid educators in serving
their communities by not teach
ing some of the “isms” they
learned. When adults are uncom
fortable because of their lack of
multicultural experience, Scott
said, children know.
“Isms” that divide and isolate
people are based on misinforma
tion and can cause distortion in
how people see their own lives
and the lives of others, Scott
said. She added that “isms” are
societal constructions, and each
person internalizes the “isms”
that operate against him or her.
The philosophy behind begin
ning this discussion now, event
director Phil McCullum said, is
to set up a state-wide network of
educators to share ideas and con
tribute to each other’s progress.
“Oregon is really on the front
end.” McCullum said. “Usually
you have a workshop like this af
ter you have [an isolated] prob
lem.”
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