[URPE] New Theodore W. Allen Scholar program

[mzweig at notes.cc.sunysb.edu]

Dear Friends and Colleagues: 

We are happy to report that the newly established Theodore W. Allen 
Scholar program is up and running under the auspices of the Center for 
Study of Working Class Life.  The program will support scholarship and 
public presentation of new work exploring the intersections of race and 
class in the United States in honor of Ted Allen's pioneering work in this 
area as a politically engaged independent scholar and public intellectual. 
  

We write now to ask you to make a tax-deductible financial contribution to 
the Theodore W. Allen Scholar fund .  See below for details.  We expect to 
inaugurate its work in Spring 2005.  With your help, we will be able to 
support graduate students doing research, help independent scholars report 
new findings, support cultural explorations of these themes, hold public 
conferences and forums, and develop a Web-based resource on race and 
class.   

We hope you are already familiar with Ted Allen's two volume The Invention 
of the White Race (Verso).  We believe it is still vitally important to 
deepen understanding of the ways in which race affects the experience of 
class, especially as an instrument of social control, and ways in which 
class differences shape the experience of race.  Through the Theodore W. 
Allen Scholar program, the Center for Study of Working Class Life at the 
State University of New York at Stony Brook will be an institutional home 
for this work, supporting those who carry on these investigations. 

In solidarity, 

Bill Fletcher, Jr. 
President, Transafrica Forum 

Tami Gold 
Film and Media Studies, Hunter College, CUNY 
filmmaker - Another Brother; Every Mother's Son 

Jeff Perry 
Vice-President, Mailhandlers Local 300, LIUNA, AFL-CIO   
editor - A Hubert Harrison Reader 
  
David Slavin 
History, Westfield State College, Massachusetts 
author - Colonial Cinema and Imperial France, 1919-1939: White Blind 
Spots, Male Fantasies, Settler Myths 
  
Michael Zweig 
Director, Center for Study of Working Class Life, SUNY Stony Brook   
author - The Working Class Majority: America's Best Kept Secret 
editor - What's Class Got to Do with It? American Society in the 
Twenty-first Century 
  
contribute : ___ $1,000 
                          ___      500 
                          ___      250 
                          ___      100 
                          ___       50 
                          ___  another amount 
  
Tax-deductible contributions to the Theodore W. Allen  Scholar Program can 
be made   
by check payable to "Stony Brook Foundation."   Mark the check "for 
Theodore W. Allen Scholar program" or indicate in a cover letter the 
purpose of the check. 
  
Send to : 
Michael Zweig 
Center for Study of Working Class Life 
Department of Economics 
State University of New York 
Stony Brook, NY 11794-4384 
631.632.7536 
michael.zweig at stonybrook.edu 
www.workingclass.sunysb.edu 
 
Thank you!