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Dear Mixed Student Union,

Can you co-sponsor and contribute a $200 honorarium for my screening & discussion of “Crossing the Line: Multiracial Comedians”?

The American Indian Graduate Program (Carmen Foghorn) will co-sponsor, and I expect the Graduate Assembly, and the Mixed Student Union too.

Tentative dates: Feb 12, 13, 14, 19, 20, 21 (t, w, th)
expected attendance: 150
room: one of the large auditorium rooms in Dwinelle
Description, bio, and link to preview below.

thank you for your support,

Darby Li Po Price
2644 Dwight Way #8, Berkeley, CA 94704
549-3458

“Crossing the Line: Multiracial Comedians” documentary screening & lecture/discussion w/producer Darby Li Po Price.  

This documentary and lecture examines how mixed race comedians mediate race and humor. Crossing lines of social acceptability by their very definition in a racially divided world, multiracial comedians challenge norms, and reveal that meanings of race vary according to intersections of race, ethnicity, class, gender, and context.  The film features perspectives and performances of 24 comedians–from Rain Pryor (Euro, African) daughter of Richard Pryor, Lydia Nicole  (Puerto Rican, African),  Kate Rigg (Indonesian, Australian, Canadian),  James Connolly (Mexican, Irish), Mark Yaffee (Navajo, Mexican, Scots), among others–psychotherapists  specializing in multiraciality, comedy club owners, professors, and NBC’s director of diversity. The timeliness of multiracial comedians’ roles as crossracial mediators is underscored as they provide insight into racial controversies and debates in an increasingly diverse society. Exploring these questions exposes the very nature of racial pain, laughter, and healing.

Link with preview (click MPG):
http://www.entertainingdiversity.com/CrossingTheLine/

Producers:

DARBY LI PO PRICE completed  a Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies at the University of California Berkeley with a dissertation on multiracial comedians titled “Mixed Laughter:  Mediating Multiracial Identities in American Ethnic Comedy,” which he is revising into a book. He has published essays about multiracial comedians in The American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Amerasia Journal, Critical Mass: A Journal of Asian American Cultural Criticism, Interrace, and several anthologies.  He is an Adjuct Assistant Professor at Samuel Merritt College in Oakland.  Price is of Chinese, Celtic, Anglo, and Cherokee descent.

 TEJA ARBOLEDA is an Emmy Award winning filmmaker, Director of Entertaining Diversity, Inc., author of In the Shadow of Race: Growing Up as a Multiethnic, Multicultural, and “Multiracial American, and an Assistant Professor at The New England Institute of Art in Boston. Arboleda is of Filipino-Chinese, African American, Native American, and German-Danish descent.

hello, my name is Fatemeh Adlparvar. I am currently a high school senior at washington high school in fremont. I was wondering if there are any activities/retreats/workshops I can get involved in?

Also, do you accept summer interns at your office? If so, I’m interested in interning for summer 2008. Thanks for your time!

Hey Fatemeh!thanks for your interest in MSU! We actually have MSU senior weekend coming in the next week, if you’d like more information please contact us or email me @ teresadeberry@berkeley.edu soon! Otherwise, if your on fb be sure to join our group where we will keep updated on coming events( its been awhile since we’ve updated this website.)unfortunately we do not offer summer internships however we have general meetings once and month and will be hosting a few events soon. feel free to email me if you have any questions :~)
~teresa ( MSU publicity chair)