Let's Talk About Race: The Difference Between Us

Let’s Talk About Race is designed to enable our campus community to engage one of the defining topics of our time, and in a way that is both respectful and thought provoking. It first utilizes the vehicle of the acclaimed PBS documentary, Race: The Power of an Illusion, that examines why and how dividing people into categories has become so deeply rooted in the human psyche and widely accepted.

In episode two, we will explore race as a concept in North America, the 19th century science that legitimated it, and how it came to be held so fiercely in the western imagination. In episode three, we will examine how race resides not in nature but in politics, economics and culture and the ways in which social institutions channel resources, power, status, and wealth, often beyond their awareness. From there, the project moves beyond knowledge to unique application via the forming of faculty/staff and student pairs to engage together on small partnered projects that help our campus to become more inclusive and equitable.

For more information, please see this website: http://www2.indstate.edu/studentsuccess/pdf/lets-talk-about-race.pdf

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