Autor: W.F. Santiago-Valles

Associate Professor in Africana Studies at Western Michigan University [WMU], Kalamazoo, has research interests and teaching responsibilities in social movements and popular cultures in the African Diaspora, the consequences of globalization, and praxis research methods. As Director of the Race & Ethnic Relations Institute at WMU Dr. Santiago-Valles pioneered a research program for the Institute that emphasized the global context for power inequities represented as race/ethnicity. The research methods faculty was encouraged to coordinate course offerings, and supported in the creation of new courses. Area studies faculty was supported in the creation of a field trip that evolved into a curriculum development project that attracted graduate students, school teachers and faculty interested in developing course units on the consequences of globalization [that could compare West Africa and the US Midwest].