With affirmative action now under siege in the U.S. and anti-discrimination initiatives moving up the agenda in France, this international conference brings together leading researchers from both sides of the Atlantic to engage in a comparative dialogue on the most effective means of combating racial and ethnic discrimination.
Program
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21 - Room 204, Longmire Building, Ivy Way
1:00-1:45 pm Registration and coffee
1:45-2:00 pm Opening remarks
2:00-3:30 pm Session 1: Overview
Chair: Jill Quadagno (Florida State University)
- Erik Bleich (Middlebury College) French Anti-Discrimination Policy: From Bit Part to Center Stage?
- Joe Feagin (University of Florida at Gainesville) Affirmative Action: A Critique of Tokenism
3:30-4:00 pm Coffee break
4:00-6:00 pm Session 2: Policing
Chair: Owusu-Ansah Agyapong (Florida A & M University)
- Patrick L. Mason (Florida State University) - Traffic Stop Data Analysis: The Florida Highway Patrol and Racial Differences in Traffic Stops and Driver Treatment
- Diop Kamau (Florida State University) - Minority Experiences of Policing
- Catherine Wihtol de Wenden (Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales, Paris) - Raising Discrimination Awareness among Police Services in France
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22 - Broad Auditorium, Claude Pepper Building
9:00-10:30 am Session 3: Defining and Using Ethnic Categories
Chair: Delia Poey (Florida State University)
- Patrick Simon (Institut National d'Etudes Démographiques, Paris) - Invisible Minorities : Statistics, Inequalities and Policies against Discrimination in France
- Suzanne Oboler (University of Illinois at Chicago) - New Shades to Old Tales: Post 9/11 Perspectives on Ethnic Labels and Discrimination
10:30-11:00 am Coffee break
11:00 am-12:30 pm Session 4: Employment
Chair: Jeff Jacques (Florida A &M University)
- John Skrentny (University of California at San Diego) - Equal Employment Opportunity Policy in the US: Half-Hearted and Incoherent
- Olivier Noël (Institut Social et Coopératif de Recherche Appliquée, Montpellier) - Referential Instability in the Struggle Against Employment Discrimination
Lunch break
2:00 -3:30 pm Session 5: Personal and Political Approaches
Chair: Philippe Dewitte (Hommes et migrations, Paris)
- Sophie Body-Gendrot (Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne) - Anti-Discrimination Policy in Urban Contexts
- Elijah Anderson (University of Pennsylvania) - Black Executives and Antiracism
3:30-4:00 pm Coffee break
4:00-6:00 pm Session 6: Education
Chair: Beverly Bower (Florida State University)
- Ofelia Garcia (Teachers College, Columbia University) - New Hopes and Barriers in US Education: The Language of High Stakes Tests and the Languages of Schoolchildren
- Françoise Lorcerie (Institut de Recherches et d'Etudes sur le Monde Arabe et Musulman, Aix-en-Provence) - An Improbable Policy : The Struggle Against Discrimination in French Schools
- Christina Paulston (University of Pittsburgh) - Official Languages and the Education of Linguistic Minorities
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23 - Broad Auditorium, Claude Pepper Building
9:00-10:30 am Session 7: Housing
Chair: Suzanne Sinke (Florida State University)
- Patrick Simon (Institut National d'Etudes Démographiques, Paris) - The Housing of Ethnic Minorities in France : the Institutionalization of Discrimination
- John Goering (Baruch College, City University of New York) - How Fair is "Fair Housing"? A Review of Recent Research on the Levels and Forms of Housing Discrimination and Fair Housing Enforcement
10:30-11:00 - Coffee break
11:00 am -12:30 pm Session 8: Making a Difference?
Chair: Alec Hargreaves (Florida State University)
- Adrian Favell (University of California at Los Angeles) - From Free Movement to Anti-racism? The EU's Impact on Anti-discrimination Campaigning and Legislation
- Sharon Collins (University of Illinois at Chicago) - Affirmative Action Policies- Progressive, Equivocal and Paradoxical Outcomes
For more information contact:
Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics
Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida 32306-1540
Telephone 850.644.7636
Fax 850.644.9917
E-mail icffs@mailer.fsu.edu
Website www.winthropking.fsu.edu