NEWS & NOTES
- Have you seen the slide show running at the entrance of the Multicultural Resource Center? It’s a great way to get the word out about multicultural events on campus! Find out how you can get your event included in the show!
NOVEMBER EVENTS
- 3 : :
Contemporary Issues Forum
4 pm in EUC Joyner Room - 4 : :
Artist Reception
5 to 6:15 pm in the MRC - 10 : :
Kaleidoscope Open Forum
4 pm in EUC Phillips Room - 18 : :
American Indian Cultural Fair
11am to 2pm in Cone Ballroom AB
Dance and Drumming Exhibition
7pm to 9pm in Cone Ballroom AB
DECEMBER EVENTS
- 3 : :
Holidays Around the World
7 to 9 pm in EUC Auditorium
JANUARY EVENTS
- 25 : :
Empty Bowls painting all week!
Call us for schedule and locations - 26 : :
MLK Commemoration
Keynote Speaker Mae Jemison
7 to 9 pm in EUC Auditorium - 28 : :
MLK Commemoration
Interfaith Prayer Breakfast
8 am in Campus Ministries Building
FEBRUARY EVENTS
- 2 : : Contemporary Issues Forum
4 pm in EUC Joyner Room - 3 : : Artist Reception
5 to 6:15 pm in the MRC
OFFICE OF MULTICULTURAL AFFAIRS
- Nominations of UNCG students qualified for the 2010 MLK Service Award are now being accepted.
- Click here for the qualifications we are looking for.
- Click here for the online nomination form. Deadline for nominations is December 8, 2009.
- Holidays Around the World is coming Thursday, December 3, 2009 at 7pm. Great student org performances deserve a great audience!
Please support this special event! - Circle January 26 on your calendar for the annual MLK Celebration at 7pm in the EUC Auditorium! Dr. Mae Jemison, the first Woman of Color to travel in space, will be our guest keynote speaker. Free tickets will be available beginning January 19. Get details.
February is African American History Month
“Female Rappers and Their Gods”
A lecture by Ebony A. Utley, Ph.D.
February 10, 2010
7:00 pm in the EUC Auditorium
“Female Rappers and Their Gods” explores the differences in how Lauryn Hill, Lil Kim, Foxy Brown, and Trina lyrically describe their relationships with God. Lauryn Hill describes a dominant/submissive relationship with her God who frequently punishes her for her sins. The other female rappers threaten their enemies with bodily harm, engage in salacious sex, and generally appear unremorseful for any of their actions, yet they describe God as a protector figure who supports them regardless of their behavior. In the lecture, I make sense of these differences by considering women’s roles in the history of hip hop, black women’s traditional roles in the black church, and black women’s self-descriptions as superwomen. I also investigate the similarities and differences between black women’s relationships with God and black women’s relationships with their male lovers and fathers.
Biography of our featured speaker
Ebony A. Utley, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at California State University, Long Beach and author of the forthcoming book The Gangsta’s God: The Quest for Respectability in Hip Hop (Praeger 2010) as well as co-editor of the fall 2009 “Hip Hop’s Languages of Love” special issue of the journal Women and Language. Utley’s essays have been published in Critical Studies in Media Communication, The Western Journal of Black Studies, and Rhetoric and Public Affairs.
Whether researching hip hop or love relationships, Utley focuses on how African Americans express themselves and establish relationships despite histories of slavery, patriarchy, and invalidating media representations. Utley frequently incorporates her interests in race and identity into courses on hip hop, popular culture, gender, and rhetorical criticism.
Utley was graduated from Indiana University Bloomington with a B.A. in speech communication, a certificate in journalism, and minors in Spanish and English. She immediately entered graduate school as a Jacob K. Javits fellow at Northwestern University in the communication studies department in the rhetoric and civic culture program. She received both her M.A. and Ph.D. from Northwestern. During her dissertation year, she was a Washington State University Summer Doctoral Fellow and an Arnold L. Mitchem Fellow at Marquette University in the department of social and cultural sciences.