Symposium on Race Relations & Community
Thursday, November 9, 2006
Symposium on Race Relations & Community
Thursday, November 9, 2006
Plenary Session Presentations:
- The Biology of Race
- Zip Coon to Pedro: a tour of visual stereotypes in US pop culture
- Where did Race Go after Civil Rights?
- The Psychology of Prejudice
- Race Politics Now: Thoughts on "Diversity" and Freedom
Concurrent Session Presentations and Discussions
- Alternative Voices and the Whitman Curriculum
- Being White in the 21st Century
- Creepy Fun, Complicit Thoughtlessness, and Taking Action
- Hate and Bias in our Community
- HIV/AIDS in Africa: Tracing a Racist Discourse Through History and Back to Whitman
- How to 'Peace' Together a Racial Dialogue: A Nonviolent Communication
- Strategies Workshop
- Individual vs. Institutional Discrimination
- Language, Latinos and the Question of Diversity
- Race, Class and Gender in Outdoor Sport and Institutions; AKA Why is it Always White Dudes Leading Trips?
- Scientific Racism and the Changing Science of Race
- The International Perspective on Race Relations at Whitman College and American Society
- Trauma, Race, and Working Through
- Walking Dichotomy: Coping With Not Knowing Your Place
- Film discussion: "Ethnic Notions"
- Film discussion: "Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes"
- A Call to Compassion and “The Golden Rule”: An Interfaith Perspective
- "I'm Not a Racist": Feigning Moral Blindness
- “Measured Separatism” and Tribal Sovereignty
- Objective Race or Constructed Race
- On Being White in a Racist Society: a Workshop on Becoming an Effective Ally
- Promoting Diversity through Whitman College Athletics
- Reconciliation or Resegregation?
- The Promises and Problems of Racial Integration in America's Schools
- The History of Race in the Greek System
- The Multi-Racial Experience
- They School: The Question of Power and the Acquisition of Knowledge
- Understanding Emotional Responses and Identifying Coping Strategies
- Whitman’s Hate Crime and Bias Incident Policy Proposal
- Film discussion: "The Difference Between Us"
- Film discussion: "White Shamans and Plastic Medicine Men"
Spike Lee's "Bamboozled"