Don’t ask people the “where are you really from” follow-up question. In the 1970’s, the National Collegiate Athletic Association issued an edict banning all Native American team names. SDCCE is the 11th largest institution in the California Com-munity Carlos Osvaldo Cortez has been teaching students of various backgrounds for the past 23 years while holding an administrative position for 16 years and acting as CEO of SDCE for 11 years. . They have also lived in Springfield, MA and Racine, WI. And what costs do you incur if you make the avoidance of offense a centerpiece of your efforts? So Twain responded, “Then whom are you neutral against?”. I come from a field, history, where you expect your ideas to be critiqued and critiqued hard. Let others wallow in self pity about linguistic victimization. It was a no-brainer. Both entities voted to make the change, despite vigorous protests by Italian Americans. And we also need regular spaces at association gatherings in which such lively public dialogues can take place. Yet, somehow, I had managed to avoid learning that a field named Intercultural Communication even existed. However, the responses to my introduction suggested that some interculturalists actually took this issue seriously, and since I had great respect for them as individuals, I pondered their suggestion. But “offensive” has increasingly become a moving target. Rather we train younger people to re-transmit our sacred ideas and to re-apply our training methods. Since 1990 he has served on the summer faculty of the Harvard Institutes for Higher Education, while he is also on the faculties of the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication and the Federal Executive Institute and has served as a Smithsonian Institution public lecturer. Up until now I’ve reflected on our 21st-century intercultural journey by attending to the voices of outsiders –- Rebecca Tuvel and Simon Tam, Sophocles and Emily Brontë, Epictetus and Crash Davis. Carlos E. Cortés is a retired history professor who has been a diversity speaker, educator, trainer, and consultant for forty-five years. No, publicly, out there in the heated, take-no-prisoners arena of Op-Eds and public debates characterized by the heated, often vitriolic, clash of ideas. But the statement is perfectly fine when complimenting someone from another country for whom English is not his native language. In Hamlet, Polonius pontificates, “I’m in favor of all of the good things and opposed to all of the bad ones.”  A few centuries later a contemporary moral philosopher, minor league catcher Crash Davis in that wonderful baseball movie, Bull Durham, counseled a younger player, “You’re gonna have to learn your clichés. The Indian Service of the United States hired its first nurses to work among Indians living on reservations. It’s wrong-minded and it’s insulting. Other philosophers came to her defense, while journalistic commentators criticized the mob attacks on her as an assault on free inquiry. Now I like the concept of microaggressions and I teach about them, but I also recognize the concept’s limitations and, even more important, its dangers. Most of all we should heed Mark Twain and avoid the desperate pursuit of a generally non-existent language neutrality. People in Spanish-speaking countries call us norteamericanos; Brazilians call us norteamericanos. I have my own personal assessment tool, provided by that great Irish existentialist playwright-novelist, Samuel Beckett. But it’s not problematic to most Latinos. The fight occurred in Cortez’s chambers in front of a witness — a Dallas County sheriff’s deputy, according to Roger Mandel, who is Cortez… Then another Brontean voice spoke up. RIVERSIDE, Calif. – A new award created by the city of Riverside to recognize community members who are committed to inclusivity and diversity has been named for Carlos Cortés, UC Riverside professor emeritus of history. Now, when the topic of neutral or inoffensive language comes up –- and it often does — I usually reframe the discussion by recommending that they not bother to look for neutrality. Carlos A. Cortéz. After that I went to the airport where I was patted down, To make certain I wasn’t a threat to the USA.”. Like Brontë, I talk to myself, constantly, sometimes imagining intercultural conversations between others. In 1924, the United States began a bold program in public health. I can’t tell you how great it is to give a workshop or speak at a conference and proclaim, “I’m the oldest damn person in the room.”  No need for trendy euphemisms like, “person of advanced years.”  Old is just fine. And I find that I increasingly admire people who are willing to ask tough questions, search for honest answers, and challenge entrenched positions, regardless of the ramifications. We may share intercultural principles, but we may also differ in the ways that we apply them. Once logged in, you can add biography in the database November 11, 2019: 2B Carlos Cortes roster status changed by Atenienses de Manati. Third, we should glory in such discussions — particularly concerning the complexities, contradictions, and inevitable dilemmas of applying basic interculturalist principles to the messy, ironic map of the real world. I had never heard of them. His recent books include The Children Are Watching: How the Media Teach about Diversity and The Making -- and Remaking -- of a Multiculturalist, both published by Teachers College Press.  In addition, Cortés is co-author of the Houghton Mifflin Social Studies series, senior consultant for the McDougal Littell World History series, and Creative/Cultural Advisor for Nickelodeon's Peabody-award-winning children's television series, "Dora the Explorer," and its sequel, "Go, Diego, Go!. He is the author of The Children Are Watching: How the Media Teach about Diversity and is a creative/cultural advisor for Nickelodeon's Peabody Award winning children's television series ''Dora the Explorer'' and its spinoff, ''Go, Diego, Go!,'' for which he received a 2009 NAACP Image Award. Meet the Artists of ¡Printing the Revolution!The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now I’m not sure if you all know about Simon Tam, a young man from Portland, Oregon, who, in 2006, formed a band of Asian American musicians. That made it easy. Then, this fall, I read a quote from the welcoming remarks to new students by University of California, Berkeley, Chancellor Carol Christ. I taught Latin American history. Carlos Cortés, a professor emeritus of history at UC Riverside, has been selected as the recipient of a 2019 Latino Spirit Award from the California Latino Legislative Caucus. In The Slants’ situation, some Asian Americans chose their own ethnic label, what we call an ethnonym. Bingo! When The Slants won, the media immediately proclaimed the Redskins to be the real winner, because that decision could buttress their trademark case. And then came the inevitable interculturalist trope:  “Using American for the United States is offensive to Latinos.”  Hm. Carlos Cortes. Cortés was part of the generation of Spanish explorers and conquistadors who began the first phase of the Spanish colonization of the Americas. sandiegouniontribune.com - Gary Robbins • 2h. It was entitled “In Defense of Transracialism.”  Tuvel addressed the following question: what happens if you take the arguments that support the idea of transgenderism and apply them to the phenomenon of transracialism — the process of adopting a racial identity different from one’s own birth race? Obviously, one of the things we do as a profession is to try to help people avoid intercultural offenses. “Using American for the United States is a form of cultural imperialism.”, “Not when I say it. Select this result to view Carlos Cortes's phone number, address, and more. Or those, including most U.S. Latinos, who take great pride in calling themselves American? The carnage continues to the present, with journal editors resigning and threats to destroy Tuvel’s career. This is why we need the courage to criticize dysfunctional training methods and rethink our own methods in the face of new knowledge and critical insights. By then we should also have a solid sampling of his work for sale in The Barn. But if we avoid clichés, if we develop solid arguments based on compelling evidence, if we hone our combative skills among ourselves, and if we learn to apply interculturalist principles in imaginative ways that provide new and nuanced perspectives on old and emerging issues –- if we do these things, our field has the opportunity of becoming a more vital public voice on the major issues facing our nations and our world. centuries. carlos.cortes@ucr.edu. Unfortunately, I’ve seen some trainers go one step further –- one inane step further — telling participants that they ought to totally avoid using any of the expressions on Sue’s list. On January 28, 2016, the City of Riverside, California, announced the naming of an annual award in my name to be given to a Riverside resident who has made outstanding contributions to diversity and inclusion in the community. Because of the 1946 Lanham Act, which forbids the registering of a trademark that “may disparage persons, living or dead, institutions, beliefs or national symbols, or bring them into contempt or disrepute.”. Now I realize that bragging is unseemly, but I’m going to play the age card and mention that, even though Fourth Quarter is my first book of poetry, it just received honorable mention for the best book of poetry at this year’s International Latino Book Awards. Ever failed. I’m now 83. But laudible can morph into ludicrous if people transform a principle into a fetish. I even applied intercultural principles during my years as creative/cultural advisor for two children’s television shows, “Dora the Explorer” and “Go, Diego, Go!”. Ph.D., University of New Mexico, 1969. This subconscious operation occurs not only within ourselves, but within everybody else with whom we interact. Forty Hipatia associate editors, all self-declared feminists, as is Tuvel, signed a petition demanding that her article be stricken from the journal and that apologies be issued. . In other words, like Columbus, his team had discovered something that others, in this case geographers, have known for several . Carlos E. Cortés . The University of Ghana recently removed a statue of Mahatma Gandhi because he once said that Indians were “infinitely superior” to native Africans. We teach courses and give workshops on holding courageous conversations and difficult dialogues. Carlos Eliseo Cortés, American historian, educator. Bemused, yes. Ph.D., University of New Mexico, 1969, (951) 827-1487 Based on their imagined conversation, I wrote that there wasn’t one chance in hell that Mexico was going to pay for the wall, but that it was almost certain that Trump would figure out some way to spin the result to make it appear as if he had implemented his original promise. The Tuvel incident speaks to my vision for interculturalism — that our field should strive to become more publicly visible as a twenty-first century thought leader. Finally, while continuing to do the things we do well, we should also stride more consciously out of our academic, training, and consulting safe spaces to take a more active role in the broader, more contentious public arena. To help assuage that ethnic wound, the two government entities simultaneously voted to add a new October celebration, Italian Heritage Day, which just happens to fall about the same time that Columbus first landed in the Americas. Those who don’t like us calling ourselves American? So I’m duly impressed when an outsider becomes highly proficient in English, a language with 18,000 rules of grammar and bafflingly non-phonetic spelling. Baloney, they responded. Sign in to like videos, comment, and subscribe. Carlos Cortés is 19 years old (17/09/2001). We do a fine job of replicating ourselves –- no, I’m not saying that we’re replicants. Is there any information on Carlos Cortes's current address? When Columbus Day was originally established and Columbus monuments were being erected, the group that most vociferously attacked these actions was none other than the Ku Klux Klan, which labeled it a Roman Catholic plot. All rights reserved. Carlos E. Cortés is a retired history professor who has been a diversity speaker, educator, trainer, and consultant for forty-five years. It was a reported shoving match between Judge Carlos Cortez of the 44th Civil District Court and Judge Eric V. Moyé of the 14th Civil District Court. Dr. Carlos E. Cortés is a Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Riverside. And two young Asian American women have now launched a magazine called Slant’d, while there are currently seven trademark applications to register versions of the N-word. “Ever tried. Since then I’ve enjoyed every day not in spite of being old, but because I’m old. Let’s look at one of our leading scholarly journals, the International Journal of Intercultural Research. History certainly does create strange intercultural bedfellows. A few months ago I was invited to write an opinion piece for a national outlet. You can find it in the American Diversity Report or on my website, crankyoldmancarlos.com. That’s one way I grapple with the clash of ideas. Now I had heard interculturalists say the word USian and I’d asked why, getting varied responses. He currently serves on the faculties of the Harvard Institutes for … Of course, as interculturalists we should vigorously condemn hate language. It reminds me of the vitriolic literary feud between Mary McCarthy and Lillian Hellman, when McCarthy said about her rival, “Every word Lillian Hellman writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the.’”   Well, in this age of microaggression mania, almost anything you say will probably offend somebody, including “and” and “the.”  That also goes for American. Carlos Cortes is a third generation “faux bois” concrete artisan carrying on a family tradition that has its Texas roots in San Antonio, circa 1924. If I altered my perspective, which is what interculturalists do, I was just one day into the fourth quarter of my life. FE Note: For a complete list of titles by Carlos Cortez, plus other IWW and radical labor writers, contact Charles H. Kerr Publishing Co., 1740, W. Greenleaf Ave., Chicago IL 60626. We need vibrant conference sessions with real clashes of ideas, sessions that at some academic conferences attract nationwide press attention. In addition to two book prizes, Cortés has also received numerous other awards.  These include UCR's Distinguished Teaching and Faculty Public Service awards, the Distinguished California Humanist Award, the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators' Outstanding Contribution to Higher Education Award, and the American Society for Training and Development's National Multicultural Trainer of the Year Award. Rather I aspire to be like Oedipus the truth seeker, the intrepid detective who solved The Riddle of the Sphinx. A young philosopher named Rebecca Tuvel published a peer-reviewed article in Hipatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. Three years ago, in 2014, the same Patent Office revoked the trademark of another entity, the Washington Redskins professional football team. This may include some of our hallowed approaches to training. That’s the way it should be in a vibrant field. Rather it worked with the school district to transform the Arabs into the Mighty Arabs and to change the school logo from a lascivious-looking Arab into a strong-jawed man with a neatly trimmed beard. Legitimate question. Riverside Mayor Rusty Bailey presented the inaugural Dr. Carlos E. Cortés Award for Championing … By the way, a group of young men straight out of Compton, California, did the same thing three decades ago when they formed a hip hop group called N.W.A. What about historically-grounded hate language like the N word and the K word and the C word and the W word?”. Yours are operating right now, maybe even reacting defensively to things I’ve said. “Personal resilience,” Christ said, is “the surest form of safe space.”  Personal resilience is “the surest form of safe space.”  That was the missing link. . That’s why English is one of the few languages of spelling bees. I pit two or more people who have staked out conflicting positions, imagine them having an argument, and then try to tease out my own conclusions. In fact, while editing my encyclopedia I encountered numerous situations in which I simply could not find a neutral term for an entry title and had to choose something, knowing that I was going to upset someone. So let me pull together the various strands of today’s journey into a vision of how 21st-century interculturalism can achieve a more powerful role in national and global public discourse. I’ve encountered plenty of intercultural ideas, but little passion for the conflict of ideas. Let’s consider two basic neuroscientific points. The most recent survey indicated that about one quarter of all U.S. Latinos even cite American as their primary cultural identity, surpassing Latino, Hispanic, or for that matter Mejicano, Cubano, Puertorriqueño, or Dominicano. Well, I’ve never gone quite that far, but I have tried to model my professional actions on that intrepid detective. . sort of like Columbus discovering America. Page created and maintained by CHASS College Computing. For interculturalism to become a public intellectual thought leader, we need to celebrate the asking of tough questions, the eagerness to reach unpopular conclusions, and the willingness to respectfully challenge positions of even our closest intercultural colleagues. As I lay in bed, something hit me. It’s true that calling ourselves Americans has created some linguistic awkwardness, since there are also Latin America and South America and Central America. is a retired history professor who travels the world with his wife, Laurel, while lecturing on cruise ships, reviewing television scripts, giving talks and workshops on diversity, and performing his one-person autobiographical play, “A Conversation with Alana: One Boy’s Multicultural Rite of Passage.” In Fourth Quarter:: Reflections of a Cranky Old Man, his first book of poetry, he reflects on the unpredictability and ironic twists of the past, present, and future from the perspective of an iconoclastic octogenarian now well into the “fourth quarter” of his life. The best result we found for your search is Carlos Cortes age 30s in Hammond, IN. And move on do you incur if you make the examination of this messiness essential. Do you incur if you make the change, despite vigorous protests by Italian.... 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