Ethnic diversity: The cure for U.S. cities?

he Department of Anthropology's annual conference on community issues will feature Roger Sanjek, a prolific author on the subject of community activism and professor of anthropology at Queens College of the City University of New York, on Friday, April 5.

A believer in the power of neighborhoods to sustain cities, Sanjek argues in his award-winning 1998 book, The Future of Us All: Race and Neighborhood Politics in New York City, that nurturing neighborhood associations is more important to a city's future than giving tax and real estate breaks to developers and companies that threaten to leave the city.

Sanjeck's presentation will cap a day of examining national and local concerns about communities that begins with morning presentations by students on topics from the Vietnam War to patriotism after September 11. Afternoon discussions will address the conference theme of "Challenges to Communities," including a roundtable discussion with local community organizers and leaders from 2-4 p.m., followed by the 4:30 p.m. address by Sanjek on "A World City? New York Before and After 9/11/01."

The program's events will be held in the Welles-Brown Room of Rush Rhees Library and are free and open to the public. For more information, call x5-8614.

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