OFFICE OF MULTICULTURAL AFFAIRS
- Get ready for the annual Multicultural Resource Center Open House! Thursday, August 28, from 1 to 4 pm! Express yourself creatively by designing your own t-shirt! And enjoy ice cream and the music of Expresso Brazil! Don't miss this fun start to the new year!
- We’re looking for outgoing, creative students with Work Study to join our 08-09 Student Staff! Want to see the job description?
Want to submit your online application? Call us at 334.5090 if you have any questions. We’re looking forward to adding some new faces!
Featured speakers for 2008 SOCC/CACE Conference
ROSA ALICIA CLEMENTE, is a Bronx-born, Westchester-County–raised hip-hop journalist, activist, community organizer; and, as a Black Puerto Rican, she is dedicated to scholar-activism.
She has written magazine articles for Clamor, The Ave., The Black World Today, The Final Call, and contributed to numerous websites. She has appeared on CNN, C-Span, Democracy Now and Street Soldiers. In 2001, she was the youth representative at the United Nations World Conference against Xenophobia, Racism and Related Intolerance in South Africa and in 2002 was named by Red Eye Magazine as “one of the top 50 Hip-Hop Activists to look out for.”
Ms. Clemente is currently focused on the impact of the 2008-09 elections, addressing the issues of excessive use of physical force, intimidation and infiltration tactics by law enforcement officials and increasing the number of young women of color in leadership roles.
MARK ANTHONY NEAL is the author of four books, What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Public Culture (1998), Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic (2002), Songs in the Keys of Black Life: A Rhythm and Blues Nation (2003) and New Black Man: Rethinking Black Masculinity (2005). Neal is also the co-editor (with Murray Forman) of That’s the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader (2004). Neal’s essays have been anthologized in more than half-a-dozen books, including the 2004 edition of the acclaimed series Da Capo Best Music Writing, edited by Mickey Hart. Neal is Professor of Black Popular Culture in the Department of African and African American Studies and Director of the Institute for Critical U.S. Studies (ICUSS) at Duke University.