Hi Diana,

Yes, the exhibit definitely fits as a PF&R out-of-convention activity and addresses the areas of  free expression; racial, gender and cultural inclusiveness; and public service.

Since you are only collecting select newspaper for the exhibit, can you tell us what newspapers or newspaper types that you need collected and I'm sure several of us would be glad to help you.

Again, congrats on your exhibit.

Frances

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Frances Ward-Johnson, Ph.D., APR
Associate Professor
School of Communications
Elon University
2850 Campus Box
Elon, NC 27244
PH: 336-278-5738

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From: FOR THE MINORITIES AND COMMUNICATION DIV. OF AEJMC on behalf of Rios, Diana
Sent: Tue 10/2/2007 4:20 PM
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Subject: Co-sponsor of Ethnic American Press Exhibit?



Dear Minorities and Communication colleagues of AEJMC,

In order for the division to consider co-sponsorship of this event, it is
necessary that more than one MAC person (Diana) be involved in it.

Would this be of interest, as a Professional Freedom and Responsibility (PF&R)
out of convention activity for the Minorities and Communication Division?

As I understood Camilla, the way in which persons would be
involved would be to help gather papers and send them to me.
We need a wide variety to choose from. Not all papers
get in the gallery because there is limited space. Also, there is copy
involved with the newspapers we feature for the exhibit.
The descriptions accompanying the newspapers should contain a brief history
of the paper, publishing dates, ownership, readership info, press functions
beyond surveillance such as political galvanization, cultural/racial pride, etc.(this latter
would be known easily by a person who is actually part of the readership).
See description below. Thank you for your consideration, Diana Rios
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"Ethnic American Press: Cultural Maintenance and Assimilation Roles"
is my exhibition project that has been accepted at the Dodd Center at the University of
Connecticut. The exhibit features selected archive and contemporary alternative US newspapers.
This has been slated for the Dodd Research Center main gallery at UConn
starting March 2008. This will run a few months and will have standard publicity from UConn.
I am working with students from the Dept of Communication and the
Institute for Puerto Rican and Latino Studies to gather, select newspapers
and write copy for this exhibit. Archives and papers come from the Dodd collection,
my private collection, and from news outlets.