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Title:	Interview with Andrea Smith
Authors:	Global Feminisms Project
Keywords:	global, feminism, feminists, intersectionality, cross-cultural, United States, American Feminists, U.S. Feminists
Issue Date:	24-Jun-2003
Series/Report no.:	Global Feminisms U. S. Site Interview
Abstract:	Andrea Smith is an activist/educator who was born in San Francisco and grew up in Southern California. She received her PhD in History of Consciousness from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She served as a delegate to the United Nations’ 2001 World Conference Against Racism in Durban , representing the Indigenous Women’s Network and the American Indian Law Alliance. She is one of the founding members of Incite! Women of Color Against Violence, and is the co-founder of the Chicago chapter of Women of All Red Nations (WARN). In her commitment to combine her activist and scholarly work, she has organized several conferences that bring community activists, public intellectuals, and academics into dialogue with one another. These include the Color of Violence I & II Conferences, Race, Gender and the War Community Forum, and Decolonizing Methodology and Beyond: Constructive Proposals for Indigenous Methodologies. She is the author of Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide and co-editor, with Beth Ritchie and Julia Sudbury, of The Color of Violence: INCITE! The Anthology. Smith is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor with a joint appointment in Women’s Studies and the Program in American Culture (Native American Studies.) In 2005 Smith was one of 40 U.S. women nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.
Description:	The 'Global Feminisms Project' is a collaborative international project that examines the history of feminist activism, women's movements and academic women's studies in China, India, Poland, and the United States. We are examining the histories of feminism in local contexts by collecting ten videotaped oral histories of women's movement activists and women's studies scholars in each country. The Project is based in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) at UM, which is also the home for the US site research team. Our international collaborators are: SPARROW, Sound and Picture Archives for Research on Women in Mumbai, India; Fundacja Kobiet eFKa (Women's Foundation eFKa) in Krakow, Poland; China Women's University in Beijing, China; and Institute for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. DIRECTIONS FOR VIEWING THE GLOBAL FEMINISMS INTERVIEWS: Click on the “via BlueStream” button to launch QuickTime Player, and then select the play button (►) in the lower left-hand corner of the QuickTime Player interface. Users may also launch QuickTime Player by clicking on the “View/Open” link associated with the MPEG, or video, file under the “Files in This Item” heading. Due to large file size, the video may take up to ten minutes to load. If the picture breaks up or does not flow freely, play the video for a minute, pause it for a minute, and then play again.
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