On June 7th, 14th and 21st, from 12:00 – 2:30 pm, please join Training for Change (TFC) Consultants, Laura Branca and Kirby Edmonds, to view and discuss the eye-opening and powerful three-part series (one hour episodes, one episode each day) PBS documentary, Race: The Power of An Illusion. Each episode will be followed by a discussion about the film and its relevance today.
You must commit to attending all three sessions. Participates will receive two credits towards their Diversity Training Requirement for 2015-16 if they participate in all three sessions.
All three sessions will take place in in the Human Resources’ Conference room, in the Peggy Ryan Williams Center. Lunch will be served at all three sessions.
Race: The Power of an Illusion examines the biological myth of race, and its social and political construction. Until we understand the myths of race and see its lasting impact on our society, and in our community today, we cannot have the important conversations to move forward. First we must understand, then we can overcome.
This is a three part series.
Episode One: The Difference Between Us examines the contemporary science that challenges our common sense assumptions that human beings can be bundled into three or four fundamentally different groups according to their physical traits.
Episode Two: The Story We Tell uncovers the roots of the race concept in North America, the 19th century science that legitimated it, and how it came to be held so fiercely in the western imagination. The episode is an eye-opening tale of how race served to rationalize, even justify, American social inequalities as “natural.”
Episode Three: The House We Live In asks: If race is not biology, what is it? This episode uncovers how race resides not in nature but in politics, economics and culture. It reveals how our social institutions “make” race by disproportionately channeling resources, power, status and wealth to some.
To RSVP please use the following link:https://form.jotform.com/61078796803163 This event is free and open to all Faculty and Staff!
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