From: sangu@igc.apc.org (David Sangurima)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.latin-america
Subject: Claiming Social Equity&Cultural Rts
Date: 5 Nov 92 06:43:00 GMT
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From: David Sangurima <sangu>
Subject: Claiming Social Equity&Cultural Rts

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Subject: Claiming Social Equity&Cultural Rts

From hrcoord Sat Oct 31 09:25:34 1992
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CONSORTIUM FOR LATINO RESEARCH":  Social Equity Fellowships


              CLAIMING SOCIAL EQUITY AND CULTURAL RIGHTS
              Rockefeller Fellowships in the Humanities
                                at the
           CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS PUERTORRIQUENOS, HUNTER COLLEGE
                     The City University of New York
                                1993-1996

The Centro de Estudios Puertorriquenos will award two full-time
postdoctoral Rockefeller Fellowships to academic and independent
scholars each year from 1993/94 to 1995/96.  We especially
encourage proposals from scholars concerned with cultural diversity
and equity in North American, Latin American, Caribbean, and
Western European contexts.

Our Fellowship Program is designed to advance comparative critical
analysis of the following questions:  How are claims for social
equity and cultural rights among disenfranchised "cultural
communities" asserted in a variety of national and international
contexts?  How do demands for equity, historically and at the
present moment, challenge or otherwise engage hegemonic cultural
theories, discourses, and national policies?

1993-94 - Cultural Rights and Citizenship
This year, projects will focus on how different "cultural
communities" experience citizenship and construct their claims for
cultural rights and equity.  Central to these issues are the ways
in which changing constructions of identity and vernacular
conceptions of rights and entitlements are embodied in collective
discourses and actions.  We also seek to examine the cultural
resources and "devalued" funds of knowledge that communities bring
to bear on the advocacy process.

Subsequent themes are:  Histories and Discourses of Group Poverty
(1994-95); and The Cultural Politics of Education (1995-96).

The Centro is the principal institute for research on the Puerto
Rican experience in the United States.  It is a critical force in
ongoing debates about excluded minorities.  It offers visiting
fellows an unsual collective, interdisciplinary, and comparative
structure for work.  The Centro is linked to a wide network of
Latino and other research institutions in the United States, Latin
America, and the Caribbean, and provides fellows with an
opportunity to draw on the unique resources of the New York area.

Projects should be interdisciplinary and cross-cultural in scope.
Applicants should have in-depth knowledge of one or more "minority"
experiences.  We will give preference to those that are empirically
grounded and theoretically promising.

All fellows must be in full-time residence at the Centro from
September through June.  They will work alongside Centro scholars
concerned with equity and diversity among puertorriquenos.

Full stipend is $34,000 and up to $3,000 for extra costs of
relocation, health benefits, housing, etc.  Fellowships may be
combined with a sabbatical.

Deadline for 1993-94 application is January 15 each year.
For more information or application materials write Program
co-directors:  Dr. Rina Benmayor and Dr. Antonio Lauria /
Centro de Estudios Puertorriquenos, Hunter College / 695 Park Ave.
Box 548, New York, NY 10021.  Or call Ana Juarbe:  (212) 772-5687;
Fax (212) 772-4348.