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<font size=4 color="#0000FF"><b>"Blooding a 'Race': Hawaiian
Identity Politics and Blood Quantum Technologies"<br><br>
</b></font>The next STS Colloquium will be held on Monday, November
14th. Our speaker will be<br>
Rona T. Halualani, Associate Professor in the Department of Communication
Studies at<br>
San Jose State University. From her book, <i>In the Name of
Hawaiians: Native Identities and<br>
Cultural Politics</i> (University of Minnesota Press, 2002), Dr.
Halualani will discuss her research on<br>
the racialization of Hawaiians through blood quantum technologies and
science. Drawing from her<br>
ethnographic fieldwork, textual analysis of historical and governmental
documents, and oral history<br>
interviews, Dr. Halualani will engage the question: What are the
limits and surprising possibilities<br>
that science and technology (namely blood quantum, extinction
predictions, and the search for a<br>
specific "authentic" genetic code) proffer for native
indigeneity (in terms of Hawaiians and other<br>
indigenous land-based groups) and cultural politics?<br><br>
Dr. Halualani received her Ph.D. from Arizona State in 1998. Her
research interests include:<br>
language and culture; cultural identity; intercultural communication;
intercultural communication training;<br>
communication theory and research; and culture and ethnography. Dr.
Halualani was selected as a <br>
2005 Carnegie Scholar by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of
Teaching for her project, <br>
"How Do Students Integratively Learn About Diversity in the
Intercultural Communication Course."<br><br>
Please join us on November 14th at 4:00 p.m. in E51-095 for Dr.
Halualani's talk. <br><br>
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Debbie Meinbresse<br>
STS Program, MIT<br>
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