"Days of Change & Exchange"
is a web project based on the student-initiated call for a dialogue
about race and racism on the Macalester College campus in Spring 2007.
Faculty, staff and students are invited to contribute ideas, images
and texts about how to dismantle racism, how to discuss difference across
boundaries and how to effect change in society. This website will also
serve as a record of events and activities for Change & Exchange
in the Macalester Community. This webpage is under construction,
look for updates.
Activities
Macalester hosted a Community Conversation
attended by hundreds of students faculty and staff on April 11, 2007.
Classes were cancelled between 11:50 and 2:10pm so as many people as
possible could participate.
Faculty activities April 13:
Website Workshop for Days of Change and Exchange, Art 108 Professor
Ruthann Godollei, Art; an all-day open process for creating a visual
and textual dialogue.
Whiteness in Historical Perspective 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Carnegie
107 Professor Peter Rachleff, History, led a workshop on Whiteness in
Perspective.
Building Alliances Across Differences of Identity Humanities
113 Professors Scott Morgensen and Joan Ostrove, Women, Gender and Sexuality
Studies. Workshop.
Asia/America: Mixing it Up, A discussion about race, ethnicity,
and identity in the Asian and Asian American contexts with: Nadine Attewell,
English Winston Kyan, Art History Christopher Scott, Asian Languages
and Cultures. 12-1 pm Place: ART 113 All are welcome.
A history of the 'culture wars' 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Humanities
113 Professor Scott Morgensen, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
What does 'politically incorrect' mean?
IN THE BLOOD Staged Reading by Acting Theory and Performance
II Class Black Box of the Theater and Dance Dept. Professor Harry Waters,
Jr., Theater. IN THE BLOOD by Suzan-Lori Parks, in the Black Box of
the Theater and Dance Dept. Issues of race, power, and privilege are
revealed in the characters created by Ms. Parks.
White performances of Blackness, from Minstrelsy to Pimp and Ho
Theme Parties Olin-Rice 350, Professor Leola Johnson, Chair of Humanities,
Media and Cultural Studies.
Spike Lee's Malcolm X, 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM Humanities 227. Professor
Duchess Harris, American Studies. A faculty-led discussion will follow
the screening.
Discussion: What is Multiculturalism? Why does it matter? 2:00
PM - 3:00 PM Theater 204 Professor Jane Rhodes, Dean for the Study of
Race and Ethnicity/American Studies will lead a discussion.
White Privilege and Urbane Racism 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM Theater
205 Professor Clay Steinman, Humanities, Media, and Cultural Studies.
Guest Speaker, Professor Trica Danielle Keaton, University of
Minnesota. 3pm, Olin-Rice 250. Sponsored by the French and Francophone
Studies. 'Race and Belonging in the 'Other France': the subjectivity
of exclusion in the French Outer-cities.'
Faculty acitivities April 12:
The Challenges of Intergroup Interaction, Professor Patricia
Devine, University of Wisconsin. led a discussion. OLRI 371 Sponsored
by the Psychology Dept..
American Studies Luncheon Colloquium 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM Humanities
401 Christopher Scott on "A Dark, Distorting Mirror." This talk reconsidered
the meanings of race and racism in Le Kenzabur's 1958 story Shiiku (Domestication),
about a black soldier who is taken prisoner by a Japanese village during
World War II.
A Discussion of how cultural, racial, and sexual difference is reflected
in the imaginative creations of science fiction writer Octavioa Butle
and poets Pat Parker and Lorna Dee Cervantes, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Old
Main 410 Professor Sonita Sarker, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
Without Sanctuary, Humanities 401 Professor Daylanne English,
English, presented a screening of Without Sanctuary, a flash movie about
the curated exhibition of the same title of lynching photographs and
postcards.
Guest Speaker: Professor Patricia Devine, University of Wisconsin
7:30pm. Weyerhaeuser Board Room Professor Patricia Devine, University
of Wisconsin, spoke on 'Breaking the Prejudice Habit.' Sponsored by
the Psychology Dept.
Resources
Links
http://www.fuerzamundo.org
FUERZA is a diversified group of artists led by community artist and
activist Mario Torero. Based in San Diego, CA, Grupo FUERZA grew out
of the Chicano Park Art Movement of the 70's, influencing the cultural
landscape of the San Diego region.
http://alldifferent-allequal.info/node/405
All Equal-All Different, Photographic competition "ART against racism".
This project aims to encourage and enable young people to participate
in building peaceful societies based on diversity and inclusion, in
a spirit of respect, tolerance, and mutual understanding.
http://www.blackwomencenter.org
AFRA, International Center for Black Women's Perspectives in Vienna.
http://www.woostercollective.com
The Wooster Collective was founded in 2001. This site is dedicated to
showcasing and celebrating ephemeral art placed on streets in cities
around the world.
http://www.graphicwitness.org/ineye/about.html
Graphic Witness, a site dedicated to social commentary through graphic
imagery by artists working from the turn of the 20th Century to the
present, with related bibliographic and biographic data.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/arts/catlett.html
PBS documentary on the art of Elizabeth Catlett.
http://www.antiracismnet.org/directory/search.html?orgnum=977
Artists Against Racism (AAR) is a non-profit international organization
with a mandate to educate youth, using artists as spokespeople in public
education campaigns in Canada.
All images copyright of the artist. Shimomura, Hitchcock prints from
collection of R. Godollei.
Webpage Organizer, Ruthann Godollei.
Contact godollei@macalester.edu
