| 09.45 - 10.00 | Welcome and
Introduction Nancy Graham Holm (Danish School of Journalism) Dale Carter (Aarhus University) |
| 10.00 - 11.00 | Coleman Jordan (Clemson
University, South Carolina) ‘A ‘Jolly’ Welcome to Denmark: Lessons on Race Relations from an African American Experience’ |
| 11.00 - 11.30 | Coffee |
| 11.30 - 12.30 | Nina Roth (University of
Copenhagen) ‘The New Consensus on Social Welfare Policy in the United States: Questions of Race and Gender’ |
| 12.30 - 13.30 | Lunch |
| 13.30 - 14.30 | Carl Pedersen (Odense
University) ‘One Nation or Two?: Debating Race in the 1990s’ |
| 14.30 - 15.00 | Coffee |
| 15.00 - 16.00 | Nancy Graham Holm (Danish School
of Journalism) ‘Super Mr. Cooper and Rap Fyr i L.A.: Reinforcing or Destroying Negative Stereotypes of African Americans?’ |
| 16.00 - 16.30 | Roundtable discussion |
| Andrew Hacker, ‘Being Black in America,’ from Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal (New York: Scribner’s, 1992), 31-49 |
| Stephen and Abigail Thernstrom, ‘One Nation, Indivisible’ from America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997), 530-545 |
| Sanford F. Schram, ‘Postindustrial Welfare Policy: Just Say No to Women and Children,’ Review of Radical Political Economics, 26, 1 (1994), 56-84 |
| Vibeke Quaade, ‘Sort blikfang - hvid identitet,’ Politiken, 26 October 1997, 7 |
| Sharon Robles, ‘Enough is Enough: Jordan’s Latest Comments Warrant Resignation,’ Point: South Carolina’s Independent Newsmonthly, 8, 92 (October, 1997), 3, 11 |
| Orlando Patterson, ‘Poverty, Not Racism, is America’s Problem,’ International Herald Tribune, 20 November 1997 |
| Dan T. Carter, ‘Both Race and Class: A Time for Anger,’ Southern Changes [Atlanta], 19, 2 (Summer, 1997), 19-22 |
Coleman Jordan
Educated at Ohio State University and Clemson University, South Carolina, Coleman Jordan is Assistant Professor of Architecture at Clemson University. His recent research has focused on theories of ‘constructing identity’ and how they relate to academe, professional practice, and minority issues in the United States, as well as on the historical preservation of slave castles in Ghana, West Africa. Presently carrying out research at the Aarhus Architecture School, he is also preparing a book on African American identity and ‘Autobiographical Architecture.’
Nina Roth
Nina Roth obtained a bachelor’s degree in English Literature from Hebrew University in Israel; an M.A. in English from the University of Copenhagen; and a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Kansas, Lawrence. She is currently Assistant Professor of American Studies at the Department of English, University of Copenhagen. Her research and teaching interests include social policy, family history and women’s history.
Carl Pedersen
Carl Pedersen is Associate Professor of American Studies at Odense University, and the Conference Secretary for the Collegium for African American Research (CAAR). He has been a research fellow at both the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (1993) and the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research (1996). His most recent publications include ‘America’s Others: The Uses of the Black Underclass and the New Immigrants,’ in Hans Bak et. al. (eds.), Social and Secure? (1996) and (as co-editor) Voices from the African American Experience (1995). He is currently co-editing two volumes, Mapping African America and Transatlantic Passages.
Nancy Graham Holm
Nancy Graham Holm holds M.A. degrees in American History (from
the University of California, Berkeley) and Broadcast
Communication Arts (from San Francisco State University).
Beginning as a freelancer at KTVU in 1974, she served as staff
producer at the station between 1976 and 1984 before becoming
News and Public Affairs Manager at KBHK in 1985. Between 1986 and
1991 she was Editorial and Public Affairs Director at KPIX. Since
1991 she has been Head of the Television Department at the Danish
School of Journalism.
The illustration at the top of this page shows a large wall mural painted on the museum next to Simon Rodia’s celebrated Watts Towers on E. 107th street in South Central Los Angeles.
The American Studies Center Aarhus is grateful to the Danish Association of Teachers of English and the Danish School of Journalism for sponsoring this seminar