A coalition of South Florida-based African Diaspora Studies programs and interested faculty and community is organizing our second Florida State of Black Studies Conference. Our theme this year is: "The Mis-Education/Incarceration/Re-Education Nexus: Black Communities in the Intersections"

TOPICS INCLUDE:

• Detailing the Prison Industrial Complex
• Masculinity/Femininity and Cultures of Violence
• State Violence/Community Violence/Policing Our Communities
• Family and Community Responsibility in Re-Education
• Hip Hop Culture and Issues of Mis/ and Re-/Education
• Third Grade Standardized Testing and Black Futures
• The Role of Religious Communities in Dismantling the Mis-Education/Incarceration Nexus
• Black Studies/Latino Studies Intersections - Chairs and Directors of Programs Speak
• Psychologies of Testing and The Disenfranchisement of Black and Latino Communities
• The Florida Mandate for Teaching the African American Experience
• Media and Information Technologies: Reaching Black Communities
• Community Re-education/Intervention Projects for Alternatives to Criminality
• Literacy and Social Justice: Who’s Teaching Our Kids - The Transient Teacher Phenomenon
• Tracking as New Segregation: The Economics of Re-Education

Invited Plenary Speakers
Panels
Workshops
Performances

May 6th, 2004 at Florida International University, Kovens Conference Center, 3000 NE 151 Street, North Miami, FL 33181

May 7th, 2004 at Florida Memorial College, FIU/FMC Building, 15800 NW 42nd Ave, Miami, FL 33054

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