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Dr. Martin Schoenhals, Author and Professor of Anthropology, Dowling College, To Present and Discuss "Intimate Exclusion: Race and Caste Turned Inside Out"
Dr. Martin Schoenhals, author and professor of Anthropology at Dowling College, will discuss his recent book, "Intimate Exclusion: Race and Caste Turned Inside Out," on Wednesday, May 11 from 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. in the Fortunoff Hall Hunt Room at Dowling's Rudolph Campus in Oakdale. This event is part of Dowling's yearlong celebration of Asian culture and is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.
According to the University Press of America, the company that published Dr. Schoenhals' book, "Intimate Exclusion presents a novel and fascinating cultural case study that reconsiders perceptions of race and caste, ethnicity, and nationalism. It richly documents the society of the Nuosu, subsistence agriculturalists living in the high mountains of southwest China, and compares Nuosu society to race and caste in the U.S., India, and apartheid South Africa, to provide a thought-provoking a new perspective on the nature and causes of race and racism." The research for Intimate Exclusion was funded by the Spencer Foundation, the largest foundation funding research on education and schooling.
Intimate Exclusion: Race and Caste Turned Inside Out is a theoretical and ethnographic book based on nine months of fieldwork among the Yi (Nuosu) of southwest China. Marlon Ross, Professor of English and African-American Studies at the University of Virginia, writes that the book, "goes far to advance our understanding of the global politics of identity."
Dr. Schoenhals received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania and B.A. with Honors from the University of Chicago. He has taught at Dowling College for 12 years.
About Dowling College
Dowling College is an independent, coeducational college that serves more than 6,500 students at
its historic Rudolph Campus on the banks of the Connetquot River in Oakdale, NY, and the 105-acre
Brookhaven Campus in eastern Long Island and a business center located near the Nassau-Suffolk
border in Melville. Dowling offers Bachelor′s, Master′s, and Doctoral degrees in several
disciplines through its four schools: Arts and Sciences, Aviation, Business, and Education.
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