Diversity and Its Discontents: The Bumpy Road to Recognition, Representation and Reality - Mercedes Lynn de Uriarte
| Date/Time: | Monday, 27 Mar 2006 at 8:00 pm |
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| Location: | Great Hall, Memorial Union |
| Cost: | Free |
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| Phone: | 515-294-9934 |
| Channel: | Lecture Series |
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Born in the United States and raised in Mexico, Dr. de Uriarte eventually made her way through a U.S. university education, a top job in mainstream press and a tenured faculty position as these institutions grappled with--and often plotted to ignore--civil rights and EEO. She provides a personalized, sometimes humorous, account of what journalists and educators face today.
Her most current book chapters appear in recent anthologies. "The Struggle for Authentic Voice: A Tale of Triumph and Skullduggery," Fear of a Brown Nation (forthcoming 2006,) "The Color of Voice, The Resonance of Language: Precedents of the Digital Divide" in Learning and Knowledge for the Network Society (2005). "A Problematic Press: Latinos and the News" in Journalism Across Culture (2003) and "Falling Through the Media Grid," on Latina invisibility in print and TV media appears in Till Death Do Part: A Multicultural Anthology on Marriage by Sandra Browning and R. Robin Miller (eds.). Other work can be found in Family Track, by Constance Coiner and Diana Hume George (eds.); Race, Class and Gender in the United States by Paula S. Rothenberg (ed.); Women Transforming Communications: Global Perspectives by Donna Allen, Ramona Rush and Susan Kaufman (eds.), Pluralizing Journalism edited by Carolyn Martindale. On-line recently: "Circles of Certainty: Confronting the Intellectual Construction of Mainstream Newsrooms," Diversity Factor, Rutgers University (2005)
She received the 2004 Trailblazer Award for Career Excellence in the Study of Society and in Opening Paths of Progress for Women of Diverse Ethnic and Cultural Communities from Washington-based Dialogue on Diversity; the Excellence in Academic Journalism award from the National Association for Hispanic Journalists in 2000 and was named 1998 Hispanic Communicator of the Year, by the Hispanic Link Journalism Foundation. In 1997 she received a Hogg Foundation grant toward production of a Latino USA radio series on Latino children, for which she served as editorial consultant. She was a 1991-92 Research Fellow at the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center in New York and a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Social Sciences at Columbia University. She served as the first chair for the AEJMC Commission of the Status of Minorities. She has also received fellowships from the Alicia Patterson and Ford foundations, from the Social Science Research Council and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She was a 1986 Fulbright to Peru, where she taught journalism to both graduating college students and practicing professionals. She has served as a media diversity consultant for newsrooms and foundations. She has been named Woman of the Year by several organizations including the Mortar Board Society. She is bilingual/bi-cultural?born in the United States and raised in Mexico.
At the University of Texas, she developed the first course in the nation to teach non-minority journalism students how to cover under-represented communities. She also initiated a course in Community Journalism which for a decade produced Tejas, a publication for diverse voice?the first such publication in the nation produced in a classroom laboratory. Both courses subsequently became models elsewhere. Articles in Tejas received the 1996 Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Award for Outstanding Journalism. The publication is featured in the July/August, 1997 Quill Magazine cover story. She has also provided press workshops in Latin America.