Mind-Candy:

• Cartoon Land
  San Diego Art Museum, Children's Project. Check out the last drawing on the page, the flower about to drive over a caterpillar! Springtime!

• And, as promised to Jamaal Johnson:

  Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones)

  Look also at Minton's (1962) on Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) Story on Black Jazz.
  Check out also Books on Afro-American and African Studies, Contributions in . . .

• Question on Zora Neale Hurston's Black Death: What did I mean by asking you to compare this story to today's world for young black women in the suggested project? I think it was Allison Inouye who asked. I meant that today still, love and commitment are often promised, but when the young woman finds herself expecting a child, she still often discovers that the young man does not want the commitment of marriage and a child, and that he "disrespects" her for being a "bad girl" and having the child before getting married. Black Death is about spiritual retribution for the young man's duplicity. I'd like to see comments on this very real present day issue. jeanne

• San Diego Art Museum's 10 Educational Cool Sites of the Month

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  Reading Preparations for Week 14, May 1 . . .

  New links going up:

  Mind-Candy: Latin America by the Brooklyn Children's Museum, Brroklyn Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Public Library

  Careful, it's addictive. jeanne

  Field Trips

  Eastman Johnson field trip info

  • Artists we have featured on our site

  • Another Jacob Lawrence painting on line

  • Art Museums online

  • Pass or Prepared? on Why We Need Theory Statistics, pay special attention to Q #3.

  • New Links Will edit. jeanne

  • Summary of Crim Theory Just going up. jeanne

  • Comments from Week of May 1 - jeanne's recollections New stuff up.

  • Critical Sociology and marxism from WSSA 2000 Meetings.

  • First draft of pass or prepared? on Labeling Qs and As, but not yet formatted.

  • Comments on Mother's Day Projects

  • Comment Thread on Violent Neighborhoods. Please submit comments.

  • Pass or Prepared on Violent Neighborhoods

  • Theory Readings

    Investigating Child Abuse

    Violent Neighborhoods, Violent Kids

    Upcoming Conferences and Publication Schedule:

    Several reviews are requesting articles :race and biogenetics:

    Call for Essays for Peacebuilding

    The deadline for the next edition of Peacebuilding, is June 1, 2000.

    Please send me articles about conferences, books, and peace education activities by regular mail to the address below or by e-mail to the address below.

    In general your article should not be more than 4 pages. 

    I would particularly welcome articles about attempts to build a culture of peace.

    Ian

    Ian M. Harris
    Department of Educational Policy and Community Studies
    Enderis 553
    University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    P.O. Box 413
    Mil. WI 53201 USA
    (Phone)1+(414) 229-2326   (Fax) 1+ (414) 229-3700
    e-mail:  imh@uwm.edu
    http://www.uwm.edu/~imh
    

    CALL FOR ESSAYS: BIOPIRACY & BIOTECHNOLOGY, PEACE REVIEW, Winter 2000 (Volume 12, Issue 4)

    Peace Review is requesting articles on race and biogenetics:

    Special Editors: Eduardo Mendieta & Lois Lorentzen, University of San Francisco

    Deadline for Submissions:  July 14, 2000

    Will the twenty-first century be the century of hitherto unimagined transformations in which human beings control production, reproduction, and the development of life itself?  Like never before, the aphorism "knowledge is power" means "power is knowledge." Biotechnology allows humans to manipulate genes, thus permitting us to re-arrange the grammar of life itself.  Some claim that this "biotech century" may bring forth unthinkable horrors as we manipulate nature to suit the human will.  Others claim that this new science may cure our diseases, feed our hungry, provide us with therapeutic drugs and alternative energy sources.  Will the technologies of cloning, gene mapping, gene splicing, gene therapy, genetic modification of organisms, bring us to a bright age of ecotopian justice or to a dark eugenic dystopia?

    In this special issue of Peace Review we invite essays on different aspects of Biopiracy and Biotechnology, including: 5) Social consequences of biotechnology.  race relations, gene altering, genetic therapy and screening, abortion and genetic screening.

    A good place to start:
    Trusting the Health Care System Ain't Always Easy
    Vernellia Randall's Website. In this paper, she documents the topic well.

    Information on how to prepare: Peace Review's Writer's Guide

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