Unpacking Race: An Essential Conversation in Schools and Homes
February 2015, at Gordon and Brown University
How can schools help students examine how race operates in daily life?
How can schools and parents partner to break patterns of underperformance among culturally and linguistically diverse groups of students?
What roles do white educators and white adults play in creating equitable school communities?
How can white educators and educators of color work together on these issues?
The resource guide from this event, and more, is online at www.gordonschool.org/resources, including links to many of the resources and links mentioned by panelists.
The event: February 20th and 21st, 2015
The Providence Journal ran an excellent preview of the weekend, and a report on Saturday's session.
Friday, February 20th, 6:30-8:30pm
Discussion with Michèle Stephenson, co-director of the film American Promise
with a panel of recent Gordon graduates
Anjuwon Spence ’05
Matt Shumate ’05
Lucy Kahn ’06
Brandon Bowman ’09
Meghan Wales ’10
at the Gordon School, 45 Maxfield Avenue, East Providence, RI
Saturday, February 21st, 9:00-11:30am
Keynote presentation with Debby Irving author of Waking Up White and James DeWolf Perry of the Tracing Center
followed by a panel discussion with:
Dr. Francoise N. Hamlin
Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies, Brown University
Dr. Maria Pacheco
Executive Director of the Education Alliance, Brown University
Dr. Ralph Rodriguez
Associate Professor of American Studies and English, Brown University
Dr. Kim Ridley
Assistant Head of the Gordon School
at Brown University's MacMillan Hall, 167 Thayer Street, Providence, RI
Sponsored by the Gordon School, Brown University’s Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion, and the Brown Center for Students of Color
Links mentioned at Unpacking Race
The film American Promise, and the work that it inspired, is covered comprehensively at the film's site at
Debby Irving's site, which includes the "21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge":
http://debbyirving.com/
http://debbyirving.com/
James DeWolf Perry is the executive director of
The Tracing Center
The Tracing Center
Dr. Maria Pacheco is the executive director of
Dr. Ralph Rodriguez read
Poem For The Young White Man Who Asked Me How I, An Intelligent, Well-Read Person, Could Believe In The War Between Races
by Lorna Dee Cervantes
Poem For The Young White Man Who Asked Me How I, An Intelligent, Well-Read Person, Could Believe In The War Between Races
by Lorna Dee Cervantes
Dr. Francoise N. Hamlin mentioned the
The two books that Brandon Bowman suggested for young black men on Friday night were
Black Skin, White Masks, by Frantz Fanon
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
Black Skin, White Masks, by Frantz Fanon
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
Debby Irving mentioned the importance of this video as a basic primer on privilege in the US:
Race: the Power of an Illusion www.pbs.org/race
Race: the Power of an Illusion www.pbs.org/race
James DeWolf Perry cited the results of implicit bias tests that can be sampled here:
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html
Traces of the Trade is the film that James DeWolf Perry participated in:
from the February 20th New York Times:
At New York Private Schools, Challenging White Privilege From the Inside
At New York Private Schools, Challenging White Privilege From the Inside
Sponsored by the Gordon School, Brown University’s Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion, and the Brown Center for Students of Color