October 17, 2002
Diversity series planned by bookstore, GO-MAP
The University Book Store and the UW Graduate Opportunities & Minority Achievement Program (GO-MAP) are sponsoring a Diversity Book Talk Series, which brings authors of color, as well as white authors who write on race, diversity, and multicultural issues, to the UW to read and discuss their work.
Admission is free, but tickets are required. Tickets are available at any University Book Store location two weeks prior to each lecture. The schedule is:
Oct. 17, Deborah Meier, education activist and author of The Power of Their Ideas: Lessons for America from a Small School in Harlem.
Nov. 15, Maxine Hong Kingston, feminist writer and author of The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, China Men, and Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book.
Nov. 18, Derrick Bell, lawyer, scholar and civil rights activist, author of seven books, including the seminal Faces From the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism.
All sessions begin at 7 p.m. in 130 Kane. For further information go to http://www.grad.washington.edu/gomap/default.htm.
