i’ma be in NY in about 6 weeks. joost! The Discussion Series is a yearly event hosted by the Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity and the theme for next year’s Series is “Suffocating Knowledge: Race, Power, Possibilities.”  Under this broad rubric, participants will explore the current trend of intellectual and curricular repression as manifested in the on-going attacks on Ethnic and Race studies programs across the U.S.  While the practice of burning books and libraries—literally destroying and suffocating knowledge—is very old, participants will explain what it is about the present social, political, and intellectual climate that leads dominant groups to suppress people and knowledges they consider “other.”  The  “possibilities” in the title of the Series, on the other hand, gestures to the crucial question of resistance, that is, to how people are challenging the pressures towards silence, conformity, and the ever shrinking arena for expressions of difference and dissent.

i’ma be in NY in about 6 weeks. joost!

The Discussion Series is a yearly event hosted by the Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity and the theme for next year’s Series is “Suffocating Knowledge: Race, Power, Possibilities.”  Under this broad rubric, participants will explore the current trend of intellectual and curricular repression as manifested in the on-going attacks on Ethnic and Race studies programs across the U.S.  While the practice of burning books and libraries—literally destroying and suffocating knowledge—is very old, participants will explain what it is about the present social, political, and intellectual climate that leads dominant groups to suppress people and knowledges they consider “other.”  The  “possibilities” in the title of the Series, on the other hand, gestures to the crucial question of resistance, that is, to how people are challenging the pressures towards silence, conformity, and the ever shrinking arena for expressions of difference and dissent.

Oct. 1 2012
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