Kurs:Whiteness
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| African-American Criticism | In this lecture, Professor Paul Fry examines trends in African-American criticism through the lens of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Toni Morrison. A brief history of African-American literature and criticism is undertaken, and the relationship of both to feminist theory is explicated. The problems in cultural and identity studies of essentialism, "the identity queue," expropriation, and biology are surveyed, with particular attention paid to the work of Michael Cooke and Morrison's reading of Huckleberry Finn. At the lecture's conclusion, the tense relationship between African-American studies and New Critical assumptions are explored with reference to Robert Penn Warren's poem, "Pondy Woods." | 8988 views | |
| Lecture by Martin Berger | Martin Berger's new book Seeing Through Race is an original reinterpretation of the iconic photographs of the American Civil Rights struggle. He argues that the very pictures credited with arousing white sympathy, and thereby paving the way for Civil Rights legislation, actually limited the scope of racial reform in the 1960s. He is also the author of Sight Unseen: Whiteness and American Visual Culture.
Both books analyze an eclectic assortment of primary evidence -- from painting, photography, and architecture to film and literature -- to explore the role played by the visual arts in identity formation, and how Americans both resist and embrace dominant norms of identity. Berger is a professor at UC Santa Cruz and holds a PhD in American studies from Yale University. |
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| "The Invisible Weight of Whiteness: The Racial Grammar of Everyday Life in Contemporary America" | Honors Colloquium Fall 2010
Speaker Eduardo Bonilla-Silva is a Professor of Sociology at Duke University. Perceptions about race shape everyday experiences, public policies, opportunities for individual achievement, and relations across racial and ethnic lines. URI's Fall Honors Colloquium will explore key issues of race, showing how race still matters. |
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| Part 1, The Cost of White Supremacy and Racism | John Riley interviews author Chip Smith and researcher Juliet Ucelli on their new book, "The Cost of Privilege: Taking on the System of White Supremacy and Racism." They discuss the material, political and moral costs of the system of white supremacy in the US historically, up to the present day. Chip Smith & Juliet Ucelli examine how since the 1960s, consciousness of the existence of racism has declined, while actual disparities have grown larger and the need to fight racism and white privilege in order to reinvigorate the social justice movement and the struggle to build a just socialist system in the US. | ||
| Part 2- The Cost of White Supremacy and Racism | In part 2, John Riley interviews "The Cost of Privilege" author Chip Smith and researcher Juliet Ucelli about their new book. The book examines the history of racism in North America and the United States. The interview was originally broadcast on Manhattan Neighborhood Network.For book info: | 14950 views | |
| Robert Jensen The Color of the Race Problem Is White" | In The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. DuBois suggested that the question white people so often want to ask black people is, How does it feel to be a problem? This program turns the tables and recognizes some simple facts: Race problems have their roots in a system of white supremacy. White people invented white supremacy. Therefore, the color of the race problem is white. White people are the problem. White people have to ask ourselves: How does it feel to be a problem?
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| Tim Wise on White Privilege | Tim Wise author of "White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son" speaking on white privilege June 25, 2002 at Bloedel Hall, St. Mark's Cathedral, Seattle. | 141038 views | |
| Between Barack and a Hard Place: Challenging Racism, Privilege and Denial in the Age of Obama | Celebrated anti-racism activist Tim Wise, author of Between Barack and a Hard Place: Challenging Racism, Privilege and Denial in the Age of Obama, will appear at Villanova University March 29 to share his insights and wit, and to issue challenging calls to action | 23083 views |