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Race and Difference Initiative
Academic scholarship and activist understanding
concerning race and racism have an important history and presence
in many American Colleges and Universities. But seldom have
these contributions been self-consciously articulated with
the understanding of other forms of stigmatizing difference,
including sex, gender, ethnicity, and national and cultural
discrimination. In corresponding fashion, race and difference
have often been considered through the lens of one or another
disciplinary or theoretical perspective – historical,
sociological, literary, economic, or biological – but
less frequently across these fields and points of view.
The Race and Difference Initiative (RDI)
draws upon Emory’s special academic strengths, the strong
relationship between its various schools, and the university’s
distinctive place in Atlanta to bridge if not transcend divisions
of understanding: (1) between race and other forms of stigmatizing
difference; (2) between different disciplinary forms of knowledge;
and (3) between scholarly and critically applied understandings
of race and stigma.
EVENTS
Wednesday, October 21, 2009, New Frontiers in Race and Difference Lecture Series presents: "Race(lessness) and Desire: 'North, 'South'" a lecture by Thomas Glave (click here for details)
Friday and Saturday, November 13-14, 2009, "Violence and Vulnerability," Emory University School of Law, Room 575G (click here for details)
December 11-12, 2009, Call for Papers, "Feminist Disability Theories and the Law" (click here for details)
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