Center for Comparative Study of Race & Ethnicity

Menominee Nation Elder Napos (David Turney) explains the teachings of the traditional Menominee Belief System, particularly the Seven Gifts as a way of living in the world. His teachings emphasize the central role of space and place, as well as of language, in understanding First Nations worldviews. The Medicine Wheel offers multiple ways to illustrate key, interconnected principles, including harmony, spiritual growth, and emotional, mental, and physical well-being.

This presentation engages with contemporary literature, memoir and public discourse to analyze the troubling and enduring representational entanglements of madness, trauma, and constructions of blackness and whiteness. Sponsored by: American Studies Program , Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity, Academic Enrichment Fund, and Wonnacott Commons

Lecture by George Yancy, Professor of Philosophy at Emory University.

A resident of Chicago, John White’s career spans nearly half a century, during which he has distinguished himself for his ability to capture the human spirit on film. The North Carolina native started off as a photographer for the Marines before getting a job with the now-defunct Chicago Daily News in 1969. When the Daily News went under in 1978, White moved over to the Chicago Sun-Times, where he worked until 2013.

Visit 118 South Main, the home of the Community Engagement, the Programs on Creativity and Innovation in the Liberal Arts, and the Center for Social Entrepreneurship, who collectively provide opportunities for students to try new things, develop ideas, and learn to engage our local community and the world. Join faculty, staff, and current students involved with our programs, including Privilege & Poverty, TEDx Middlebury, and the CSE Fellowship. We’ll have Vermont/local apple cider and refreshments—bring your ideas and questions!

This event brings together two important and internationally recognized contemporary female voices to talk about a variety of issues ranging from the art and power of story telling, human ‘w/righting’ cross culturally and trans-nationally, feminism, their friendship and dialogue, and their collaboration in organizations such as Border of Lights.

This award-winning documentary follows the evolution of working-class, immigrant Boyle Heights from multiethnic to predominately Latino. The film shows how Boyle Heights survived the building of the largest and busiest freeway interchange system in North America and now faces another threat, gentrification. Following the screening there will be a Q&A with director Betsy Kalin.

This public presentation explores the anti-peddling campaigns undertaken by a group of elite American deaf people during the late nineteenth until the mid-twentieth century. As historian Octavian Robinson demonstrates, whiteness, class, masculinity, disability and nondisability converged with language politics in this campaign to influence American public policy governing the presence of disabled bodies in public spaces.

Screening of a documentary, Clínica de migrantes, accompanied by a presentation by the subject of the film, Dr. Steve Larson.

Kimberlé Crenshaw, Professor of Law at UCLA and Columbia Law School, is a leading authority in the area of Civil Rights, Black feminist legal theory, racism and the law. Her groundbreaking work on “Intersectionality” has traveled globally and was influential in the drafting of the equality clause in the South African Constitution.