Eye on Diversity Film Series - How Racism Harms White

Eye on Diversity Film Series - How Racism Harms White

Event Type

All

Location

Hulman Memorial Student Union (Dede II)

Date

Time

Phone

(812) 237-8513

Description

Distinguished historian John H. Bracey Jr. offers a provocative analysis of the devastating economic, political, and social effects of racism on White Americans. In a departure from analysis of racism that have focused primarily on white power and privilege, Bracey trains his focus on the high price that white people, especially working class whites, have paid for more than two centuries of divisive race-based policies and attitudes. Bracey's central point is that failing to acknowledge the centrality of race, and racism, to the American project not only minimizes the suffering of black people, but also blinds us to how white people have been harmed as well.