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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"