IntroDUCKtion: Anti-racism Track (2020)
If anything is certain in these very uncertain times, it’s that racism exists in our society. How can we acknowledge our past and present power inequalities? How can we come together for positive change? Engage with faculty working to understand and address social inequities and discover the many different paths for taking an active role in shaping the communities in which we live.
1. Provost and Senior Vice President Patrick Phillips tries to answer the big question, how can we acknowledge our past and present power inequalities and come together for positive change? The Anti-Racism track addresses social inequities and works to discover the many different paths for taking an active role in shaping the communities in which we live.
2. Assistant Vice Provost for Academic Advising Kimberly Johnson discusses the role of transformative education and how campus civic engagement influenced her debut novel, “This is My America,” and its themes around systematic racism and America’s criminal justice system, as told from the lens of 17-year old Tracy Beaumont.
3. Assistant Professor Camisha Russell, whose research interests include Critical Philosophy of Race, presents the faculty perspective in this week’s anti-racism track.
4. Professor of Law Michelle McKinley explores what we mean when we talk about freedom.
5. Assistant Professor Courtney Cox from the Department of Indigenous, Race and Ethnic Studies presents this week’s faculty perspective on anti-racism.
6. Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education & Student Success Doneka Scott discusses what health care and higher education have in common in this faculty perspective on anti-racism.
7. Professor of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies Laura Pulido discusses the question: what is environmental racism?
8. Associate Professor of Cinema Studies Priscilla Ovalle discusses what dancing Latinas and Hollywood hairdos tell us about the ways that race, gender, and sexuality are shaped and circulated in mainstream U.S. media. (Engaged Humanities Track)
9. Assistant Professor Troy Elias in the School of Journalism and Communication discusses how different racial and ethnic groups respond to messages about climate change.