Associate Professor of Spanish and Women's Studies Susan Sanchez-Casal presented a paper at the Puerto Rican Studies Association in Chicago, in early October. The paper was titled "Abraham Rodriguez's Spidertown: Repositioning Race and Gender in the Internal Colony."
October 17-20, with her co-author Amie Macdonald, Sanchez Casal headed a panel dedicated to critical anthology 21st Century Feminist Classrooms: Pedagogies of Identity and Difference (2002) at the University of Michigan conference "Redefining Identity Politics-Internationalism, Feminism, Multiculturalism" (the conference was sponsored by the national Project for the Future of Minority Studies). The title of the panel was 21st Century Feminist Classrooms: Feminist Pedagogy and Racially Integrated Education.
The panel was primarily focused on the theoretical introduction of Sanchez-Casal's book, co-authored with Macdonald, titled "The Pedagogical Relevance of Identity." This antiracist, feminist anthology, 21st Century Feminist Classrooms: Pedagogies of Identity and Difference has been identified by this national project on minority studies as central to the future of minority studies. This conference was the fourth in an ongoing series of bicoastal conferences; previous conferences have been held at Cornell, Stanford and Binghamton Universities.
