Otto Santa Ana and his new book

UTSA to host symposium on civic discourse

(March 23, 2004)--The UTSA College of Education and Human Development will host a research symposium, Voices of the Other in Educational and Civic Discourses, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Thursday, April 1 in the University Center Mesquite Room (2.01.24) and Pecan Room (2.01.26) at the 1604 Campus. The event is free and open to all.

View the symposium program at the College of Education and Human Development Web site.

The keynote speaker for the symposium is Otto Santa Ana associate professor of linguistics with the UCLA Cesar Chavez Center for Chicana/o Studies.

Santa Ana will speak on "Beaten with a Padded Stick: Today's More Compassionate Political Discourses of Exclusion" from 11:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the University Center Laurel Room (2.01.28).

Santa Ana will analyze national immigration and health policies that have direct impact on racial minorities, maintaining that the federal government and other institutions attempt to build support from minority communities by masking discriminatory intent in political discourse.

Author of the award-winning book "Brown Tide Rising: Metaphors of Latinos in Contemporary American Public Discourse" (University of Texas Press, 2002) and editor of "Tongue-tied: The Lives of Multilingual Children in Public Education" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004), Santa Ana has a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania.

The symposium is organized by Thomas Ricento, UTSA associate professor of bicultural-bilingual studies, and Rosalind Horowitz, UTSA professor of interdisciplinary studies.

For more information, contact Thomas Ricento at 210-458-5571.

--Tim Brownlee