Extra Credit Options for NR6
To compensate for missing a freewrite or lack of attendance for a Thursday discussion session, attend any of the following events, write a reflective paper in response to it, and hand it in to the box in 220 Aiken, in the folder for your discussion leader. Be sure to include all the information that we need to record it properly. This includes your name, the date, the event, your discussion leader's name, and EXTRA CREDIT in capital letters at the top of the page to be sure we do not overlook your intent.
Follow the instructions for weekly
reflective writings. Try to tie it into other activities
or readings in NR 6. Remember this is a reflective piece and
NOT only a report about what happened at the event.
BE SURE to indicate who your discussion leader is and that this is an EXTRA credit submission at the top of the page, otherwise you will not receive extra credit.
Extra
credit opportunities to be posted as information becomes
available.
University of Vermont, ALANA/US Ethnic Studies Lecture Series
Dr. George
Sanchez (speaker), Professor of
American Studies & Ethnicity and History and Vice Dean for
Diversity and Strategic Initiatives at the University of
Southern California
Thursday, Nov 1, 2012
4 PM Memorial Lounge,
Waterman Building
Bridges and Boders in a Multiracial
Community: The Case of Boyle Heights, CA
Rubenstein
School Diversity Task Force Sponsored Film and Discussion
One Day on Earth (film)
Wednesday,
Nov 7, 2012
5:30
PM 102 Aiken
One
Day on Earth is a documentary that
captures the same 24-hour period throughout every country in
the world. We will watch the film and then discuss
themes of diversity, equity and environment raised in the film.
SUNY
Plattsburgh President's Speaker Series
Majora Carter (speaker)
Monday, Nov
12, 2012
7-9PM 202 Yokum Lecture Hall on the SUNY
Plattsburgh Campus
Founder of
Sustainable South Bronx and environmental justice activist, will
address students and faculty. This event is free and open to the
public.
The Rubenstein School is arranging transportation to depart campus at around 5:15, and return by 10:30 pm. To reserve a spot, contact Devan.Carrington@uvm.edu by Friday Nov 9 at Noon.
You can learn more about Majora Carter and see her
speak in her TED talk.
Social Justice Film Series sponsored by the
Center for Cultural Pluralism
City of Borders (film)
Wednesday,
Sep 19, 2012
Noon: 104 Allen Hse
7:30 PM: 315 Living and Learning Commons
City
of Borders follows the daily lives of
the Israeli bar owner and four
Against a Trans
Narrative (film)
Wednesday,
Oct 10, 2012
7:30 PM: B101 Living and Learning B
Not Quite White (film)
Wednesday, Oct 24, 2012
Noon: 104 Allen Hse
7:30 PM: 315 Living and Learning Commons
Not Quite White explores the complicated relationship of Arab and Slavic immigrants to American notions of Whiteness – How is Whiteness achieved? What qualifies as “fully American”? The film advances our ongoing conversations about the meaning of Whiteness and the efforts to redefine it. [Run time: 25 minutes]
Two Spirits (film)
Noon: 104 Allen Hse
7:30 PM: 315 Living and Learning Commons
Fred Martinez was nádleehί - a male-bodied person with a feminine nature, a special gift according to his ancient Navajo culture. Between tradition and controversy, sex and spirit, freedom and fear, Two Spirits interweaves the tragic story of a brutal murder at age sixteen. [Run time: 65 minutes]
Flow (2008)
A look at the world's water crisis and how the causes of the depleting water supply is connected to pollution, human rights, and even politics. Features interviews with scientists and activists. Includes commentary, expanded interviews, and more.
Teaching
Indians To Be White (1993)
Fenceline (2002)
RACE: The power of an illusion Episode One (2003)
"The Difference Between Us" examines the contemporary science - including genetics - that challenges our common sense assumptions that human beings can be bundled into three or four fundamentally different groups according to their physical traits.
RACE: The power of an illusion Episode Two (2003)
"The Story We Tell" uncovers the roots of the race concept in North America, the 19th century science that legitimated it, and how it came to be held so fiercely in the western imagination. The episode is an eye-opening tale of how race served to rationalize, even justify, American social inequalities as "natural."
RACE: The
power of an illusion Episode
Three (2003)
If These Halls Could Talk (2012)
If our halls could talk, what would they say about the alarming rates of students of color leaving our colleges? What would they say are some of the causes for their departures? What would our students say it is like to be a minority student at a predominantly white campus? Are faculties and staff prepared for the influx of students from different backgrounds? When conflicts arise around diversity issues on the campus and in the classroom, are administrators and teachers prepared to handle them? What are some of the solutions needed to confront these problems? These and many other issues are discussed in this dynamic and electrifying new film directed and produced by Lee Mun Wah.
Race Against Prime Time documents how local
television newsmen anoint black community spokespersons,
characterize whites as victims and blacks as rioters and fail
to place the disturbances within the context of and decades of
civic neglect. This film reminds us that twenty-five years
after the Kerner report decried media prejudice, news
reporting remains very much a white view of black realities.
The
Thirty-Minute Blue Eyed (1996)
True Colors
(1991)
In this startling expose, ABC News Prime Time
Live anchor, Diane Sawyer explores skin color prejudice in
America with the help of two friends virtually identical in
all respects but one-- John is white, Glen is black. Together
they take part in a series of hidden camera experiments
exploring people's reactions to each in a variety of
situations. Acting within the scenario of moving to a new
town, Prime Time Live, undercover, follows John and Glen
separately as they each try to rent an apartment, respond to
job listings, purchase a car, and conduct everyday activities
such as shopping. The responses in other the white and
racially mixed communities are shocking and consistent. In
every instance, John is welcomed into the community while Glen
is discouraged by high prices, long waits, and unfriendly
salespeople. Diane Sawyer concludes TRUE COLORS with a
discussion with John and Glen about the outcome of these
experiments and their experiences with discrimination in daily
life. A corVISION Media Release Produced by ABC News
The Color
of Fear (1995)
The Color of Fear is an insightful, groundbreaking film about
the state of race relations in America as seen through the
eyes of eight North American men of Asian, European, Latino
and African descent. In a series of intelligent, emotional and
dramatic confrontations the men reveal the pain and scars that
racism has caused them. What emerges is a deeper sense of
understanding and trust. This is the dialogue most of us fear,
but hope will happen sometime in our lifetime.
The Way
Home (1998)
Skin Deep (1995)
Skin Deep chronicles the eye-opening journey
of a diverse and divided group of college students as they
awkwardly but honestly confront each other's racial
prejudices.
Academy Award nominated filmmaker Frances
Reid follows students from the University of Massachusetts ,
Texas A&M, Chico State , and U.C. Berkeley to a
challenging racial awareness workshop where they confront each
other's innermost feelings about race and ethnicity. She also
accompanies them back to their campuses and on visits home in
an attempt to understand why they think the way they do.