Cross ’12, Castagno ’12 Participate in Mixed Race ConferencePosted in Articles, Campus Life, Media Archive, United States, Women on 2010-12-02 20:14Z by Steven |
Cross ’12, Castagno ’12 Participate in Mixed Race Conference
The Wesleyan Connecton
Welyean University’s Newsletter
2010-12-02
Rachel Cross ’12 and Alicia Castagno ’12 participated as panel members in a session of the Critical Mixed Race Conference sponsored by dePaul University in Chicago Nov. 5-6 [2010].
The conference was attended by academicians and students (primarily graduate students) from across the country. Cross and Castagno co-taught a Wesleyan student forum on mixed race last year and were on a panel discussing the development and teaching of this topic as students. In the question and answer period someone asked how many student-taught classes on mixed race there were in the country. A member of the University of Washington group said that as far as they could find out, only the UW and Wesleyan had student-taught classes…
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