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November 2018
Selector: Diversity and Inclusion Council
The Race Card Project aims to hear, experience, and collect the real discussions about race, culture and identity on campus. Students, faculty, staff, and members of the community are invited to express their thoughts about race, cultural identity, or an evolving America in six words. To display all of the thoughts shared on the cards, Race Card Walls will be set up in six library locations on both the main and School of Medicine campuses beginning November 1, 2018. In addition, an On Location portal will collect Race Cards from the Wayne State community not able to visit one of the participating locations in person.
Walls are available at all the libraries:
- David Adamany Undergraduate Library
- Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Learning Resource Center
- Arthur Neef Law Library
- Purdy/Kresge Library
- Walter P. Reuther Library
- Shiffman Medical Library
Websites, November 2018
Here is a link to the original Race Card Project:
https://theracecardproject.com/
And here is a link to our own Wayne State portal:
https://theracecardproject.com/wayne-state/
All members of our community are encouraged to participate at any of the library locations or by using the portal above.
Below is a video of Michele Norris discussing The Race Card Project.
Videos November 2018
Reveal Moments: Microaggression and Race - An intimate portrait of four people of color in the Pacific Northwest coping with microaggressions and implicit bias in everday life. Their vivid stories create "reveal" moments, where the truth about lived experiences shines and inspires. A white ally discusses his experience of privilege as he struggles to learn about and change his own racial bias.
A People's History of the United States - With the tremendous success of his book, A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn radically changed the way Americans see themselves. His friend Noam Chomsky says that Zinn literally transformed a generation's conscience. Zinn talks about those who have no voice in the official History : Slaves, Indians, deserters, textile workers, union men.
Colors: Race and Ethnicity - For racial and ethnic minorities, the struggle for recognition and equality is nothing new. Perhaps nowhere is this more visible than in the United States. The polarizing effects of stereotyping racial prejudice and discrimination, and its impact on generations of Black Americans, are discussed. Learners will also meet the Bazzy family - an Arab-American family in Michigan who must cope with local misconception and generalizations about Arab culture in the wake of 9/11.
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eBooks
What We Now Know about Race and Ethnicity by ISBN: 9781782386032Publication Date: 2015-10-01Attempts of nineteenth-century writers to establish "race" as a biological concept failed after Charles Darwin opened the door to a new world of knowledge. Yet this word already had a place in the organization of everyday life and in ordinary English language usage. This book explains how the idea of race became so important in the USA, generating conceptual confusion that can now be clarified. Developing an international approach, it reviews references to "race," "racism," and "ethnicity" in sociology, anthropology, philosophy, and comparative politics and identifies promising lines of research that may make it possible to supersede misleading notions of race in the social sciences.
On Race by ISBN: 9780190498559Publication Date: 2017-10-02With the recent barrage of racially motivated killings, violent encounters between blacks and whites, and hate crimes in the wake of the 2016 election that foreground historic problems posed by systemic racism, including disenfranchisement and mass incarceration, it would be easy to despairthat Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream has turned into a nightmare. Many Americans struggle for equal treatment, facing hate speech, brutality, and a national spirit of hopelessness; their reality is hardly "post-racial". The need for clarity surrounding the significance of race and racism in theUnited States is more pressing than ever. This collection of interviews on race, some originally conducted for The New York Times philosophy blog, The Stone, provides rich context and insight into the nature, challenges, and deepest questions surrounding this fraught and thorny topic.In interviews with such major thinkers as bell hooks, Judith Butler, Cornel West, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Peter Singer, and Noam Chomsky, Yancy probes the historical origins, social constructions, and lived reality of race along political and economic lines. He interrogates fully race's insidiousexpressions, its transcendence of Black/white binaries, and its link to neo-liberalism, its epistemological and ethical implications, and, ultimately, its future.
We Can't Talk about That at Work! by ISBN: 9781523094264Publication Date: 2017-04-23We Need to Talk! Conversations about taboo topics happen at work every day. And if they aren't handled effectively, they can become polarizing and divisive, impacting productivity, engagement, retention, teamwork, and even employees' sense of safety in the workplace. In this concise and powerful book, Mary-Frances Winters shows how to deal with sensitive subjects in a way that brings people together instead of driving them apart. She helps you become aware of the role culture plays in shaping people's perceptions, habits, and communication styles and gives detailed guidance for structuring conversations about those things we're not supposed to talk about. Preparation is crucial-but so is intent. Winters advises you to ocome from your heart, learn from your mistakes, and continue to contribute to making this a more inclusive world for all.o
Books in Print
Place, Race, and Story by ISBN: 9780415965392Publication Date: 2009-07-08In Place, Race, and Story, author Ned Kaufman has collected his own essays dedicated to the proposition of giving the next generation of preservationists not only a foundational knowledge of the field of study, but more ideas on where they can take it. Through both big-picture essays considering preservation across time, and descriptions of work on specific sites, the essays in this collection trace the themes of place, race, and story in ways that raise questions, stimulate discussion, and offer a different perspective on these common ideas. Including unpublished essays as well as established works by the author, Place, Race, and Storyprovides a new outline for a progressive preservation movement - the revitalized movement for social progress.
The Talking about Race by ISBN: 9780226869063Publication Date: 2007-05-15It is a perennial question: how should Americans deal with racial and ethnic diversity? More than 400 communities across the country have attempted to answer it by organizing discussions among diverse volunteers in an attempt to improve race relations. In Talking about Race, Katherine Cramer Walsh takes an eye-opening look at this strategy to reveal the reasons behind the method and the effects it has in the cities and towns that undertake it. With extensive observations of community dialogues, interviews with the discussants, and sophisticated analysis of national data, Walsh shows that while meeting organizers usually aim to establish common ground, participants tend to leave their discussions with a heightened awareness of differences in perspective and experience. Drawing readers into these intense conversations between ordinary Americans working to deal with diversity and figure out the meaning of citizenship in our society, she challenges many preconceptions about intergroup relations and organized public talk. Finally disputing the conventional wisdom that unity is the only way forward, Walsh prescribes a practical politics of difference that compels us to reassess the place of face-to-face discussion in civic life and the critical role of conflict in deliberative democracy.
Race by ISBN: 0813340861Publication Date: 2004-01-07When the head of the Human Genome Project and a former President of the United States both assure us that we are all, regardless of race, genetically 99.9% the same, the clear implication is that racial differences among us are superficial. The concept of race, many would argue, is an inadequate map of the physical reality of human variation. In short, human races are not biologically valid categories, and the very ideas of race and racial difference are morally suspect in that they support racism. In Race , Vincent Sarich and Frank Miele argue strongly against received academic wisdom, contending that human racial differences are both real and significant. Relying on the latest findings in nuclear, mitochondrial, and Y-chromosome DNA research, Sarich and Miele demonstrate that the recent origin of racial differences among modern humans provides powerful evidence of the significance, not the triviality, of those differences. They place the "99.9% the same" figure in context by showing that racial differences in humans exceed the differences that separate subspecies or even species in such other primates as gorillas and chimpanzees. The authors conclude with the paradox that, while, scientific honesty requires forthright recognition of racial differences, public policy should not recognize racial-group membership.
