The
Third Annual Women in Public Life Forum
"Black Women in the Media:
The Power of Representation"
Friday
March 5th and Saturday, March 6th, 2004
Who Decides What is (In)visible?
This forum is
a Weissman Center initiative, co-sponsored by the Mount Holyoke
Alumnae
Association,
that bridges
the gap between a student’s academic work and the surrounding
world, with the eventual goal of helping her decipher and transform
the shifting public sphere. In conjunction with our year-long series, Geographies
of Color: Education, Inequality, and Black Leadership in the Twenty-First
Century, this year’s forum focuses on
how black alumnae working in positions of power in the media perceive
1) their role as leaders 2) their individual work and 3) the various
representations of black women in their particular field.
In most critical views, the images and representations
of women of color in the media are fundamentally problematic
at best and, in some cases,
intentionally misleading. This forum is a platform for meaningful
discourse on how black women leaders have shaped (and been shaped
by) the varying images of women of color in the media.
Program
of Events
Panelists
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