Please join us for our first meeting of the 2018-19 academic year (and first for the semester). This meeting, September 10th at noon in Toy Lounge, will be an open session to talk about any and all issues related to race happening at UNC that you want to talk about, such as the toppling of Silent Sam and the discussion of what should happen to the statue. With that in mind, the readings for this session are two blog posts by Dr. John McGowan about the recent events at UNC:
1) “No, it was not mob rule, it was civil disobedience”: https://jzmcgowan.com/2018/08/22/no-it-was-not-mob-rule-it-was-civil-disobedience/
2) “Further thoughts on civil disobedience”: https://jzmcgowan.com/2018/08/25/further-thoughts-on-civil-disobedience/
We will have 2 more meetings in the fall and 3 in the spring. If you would like to lead a session or propose an idea for this session, please contact us at RacialLiteracies@unc.edu.
March Meeting: Denise Ferreira da Silva (3/23)
Please Join Racial Literacies this month for a guest speaker!
Un-payable Debt
A presentation by Denise Ferreira da Silva,
University of British Columbia
Friday March 23, 11:15 – 12:15
UNC, Chapel Hill, Toy Lounge of Dey Hall
Sponsored by the Carolina Seminar on Racial Literacies. For more information contact Mark Driscoll: mdriscol@email.unc.edu
This month’s Racial Literacies meeting will be hosted by Clay and Philip Hollingsworth (both work at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities) on the topic of race and media representations. Discussion materials will include readings and the documentary “The Problem with Apu” by Hari Kondabalu. We will meet Thursday, January 25, 12:00-1:30pm in Toy Lounge, Dey Hall.
Come participate on November 9th, Toy Lounge, 12-1:30pm. We will be continuing our discussion of White Rage.
Our October meeting of Racial Literacies will focus on the first three chapters of Carol Anderson’sWhite Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Bloomsbury 2016). Come and participate in the discussion! Whether you read the book or not we want to hear your thoughts. Please share this event with anyone who is interested in talking about race with us. We will be meeting on Wednesday, October 4 in Toy Lounge (4th floor of Dey Hall) 12:00-1:30pm to talk about White Rage.
First meeting of the year! Come and get involved with Racial Literacies. The meeting is open topic.
Intersecting Drumpf: A Racial Literacies Panel
Date and Time: Friday, February 24, 3:30-5:30pm
Location: Toy Lounge, Dey Hall, UNC Chapel Hill
For more information, email Mark Driscoll: mdriscol@email.unc.edu.
Calling all students, staff, and faculty: Please join us for the first meeting of the Racial Literacies working group/seminar for Spring 2017.
Date and Time: Tuesday, January 24, 12-1:15pm
Location: Hitchcock Auditorium, The Stone Center, UNC
At our meeting, we will be discussing a piece written for the Boston Review by Dr. Robin Kelley (U of Southern California; formerly a postdoc at UNC Chapel Hill) called “After Drumpf.” Article: http://bostonreview.net/forum/after-trump/robin-d-g-kelley-trump-says-go-back-we-say-fight-back
For questions or to RSVP, email RacialLiteracies@unc.edu.
November 2016 Meeting
Calling all students, staff, and faculty: Please join us for the third meeting of the Racial Literacies working group/seminar.
Date and Time: Monday, November 7 (12-1pm)
Location: Toy lounge in Dey Hall
Feel free to bring a lunch and we will provide drinks.
Our topic will be Race and the Academy. Please find a reading attached; discussion will focus on this article and other issues it raises about race and/in the academy. PDF: Critical Race Theory, crenshaw-2011
For questions or to RSVP, email RacialLiteracies@unc.edu.
October 2016 Meeting
Calling all students, staff, and faculty: Please join us for the second meeting of the Racial Literacies working group/seminar.
Date and Time: Monday, October 24 (12-1pm)
Location: Donovan lounge, 2nd floor of Greenlaw Hall
Feel free to bring a lunch and we will provide drinks.
Our next topic will be the presidential election and the racial rhetoric surrounding the elections. We are circulating this reading in advance of our meeting: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/10/the_horror_is_everything_the_gop_could_tolerate_about_trump.html?wpsrc=sh_all_dt_tw_ru
Our discussion will focus on this article and other issues it raises about race and the presidential elections.
For questions or to RSVP, email RacialLiteracies@unc.edu.
September 2016 Meeting
Date and Time: Tuesday, September 20, 12-1pm
Location: Donovan lounge, 2nd floor of Greenlaw Hall.
Feel free to bring a lunch and we will provide drinks.
During our first meeting we will talk about keywords related to race, racism, anti-racism, and intersectionality and we want to hear about what topics you want to discuss around these topics as well.
For questions or to RSVP email RacialLiteracies@unc.edu