Racism in the 21st Century

Reminder …

 

Racism in the 21st Century  What is changing about racial discrimination? What do phrases such as white privilege, post-racial, or new racism mean to you? Through interactive exercises this workshop will allow us to candidly address how we experience or witness racism differently based on our own social identities. We will consider what new critical race scholarship has to say about the future of the concept of race and the eradication of racism.

Friday, April 12, 3:30-4:30pm, Robert Scott Small Building, Room 248

Co-facilitators Dr. Ade Ofunniyin & Kristi Brian

Who should attend? All interested faculty, staff and students

Kristi Brian, Ph.D.
Director of Diversity Education & Training
College of Charleston
Office of Institutional Diversity
Robert Scott Small Building 238
Charleston, SC 29424
843.953.6452
fax: 843.953.7713
website: diversity.cofc.edu

Charleston County Schools Superintendent Nancy McGinley issues apology to the students of desegregation

Nancy McGinley recently issued an apology on behalf of CCSD at College of Charleston’s commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the desegregation of South Carolina public schools, asking the first students of desegregation for forgiveness for the mistreatment they suffered during their education.

To read the Post and Courier’s full article, click here.

Filed under: Charleston, SC, Civil Rights Movement, Desegregation, Jubilee Project

Join CofC for a worldwide celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail

On April 16th, 2013, the 50th anniversary of the day that Martin Luther King, Jr. began writing his Letter from Birmingham Jail, participants worldwide will read King’s Letter in celebration. Participants will host public readings from the Letter at various locations around the globe: libraries, museums, schools, universities, churches, synagogues, temples, work places, public parks, bookstores, street corners, coffee shops and anywhere people want to participate. Join the celebration! This event is sponsored by the Birmingham Public Library.

Locally, the event will take place at Cougar Mall on College of Charleston’s campus at 1:30 pm.  For more information, click here.  See you there!

Filed under: Charleston, SC, Civil Rights Movement, Desegregation, Jubilee Project, Upcoming Events

National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society Inducts 17 New Members

On April 8 at 6:00pm in the Alumni Center, the following 17 students were initiated into the Nu Zeta Chapter of Sigma Delta Pi,  the National Collegiate Hispanic Honor Society:

Katherine Ashe
Caroline E. Buddin
Stacy Calhoun
Kaitlyn Leigh Cummings
Celeste N. DeVera
Stephanie Dove
Morgan Edwards
Sylricka Foster
Katie Gilmer
Maggie Glascott
Christina Barrett Hawkins
Caroline Kenny
Alexa Liberson
Jeremy López
Alexander Margolin
Lindsey M. Robusto
Valeria Scotto Di Luzio

Jocelyn Moratzka and Justin Lyons were the student officers who conducted the event along with the assistance from member Shannon Himes and co-adviser Dr. Carmen Grace. A reception followed in the HISP Conference Room.

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“Changes in Cuba: the Evolution of the US-Cuban Relationship:” April 11 @ 4pm

The School of Languages, Cultures and World Affairs is sponsoring a lecture by Dr. Julia Sweig from the Council on Foreign Relations on Thursday April 11 at 4 pm in the Wells Fargo Auditorium (School of Business).  The lecture is titled, “ Changes in Cuba: the Evolution of the US-Cuban Relationship.”   Dr. Sweig is one of the foremost authorities on contemporary Cuba and we are most fortunate to have her on campus.

She is the Nelson and David Rockefeller senior fellow for Latin American Studies at the Council and the author Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2009, 2013) and Friendly Fire: Losing Friends and Making Enemies in the Anti-American Century (Public Affairs, 2006), as well as numerous publications on Latin America and American foreign policy. Dr. Sweig’s Inside the Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro and the Urban Underground (Harvard University Press, 2002) received the American Historical Association’s Herbert Feis Award for best book of the year by an independent scholar. She also writes a bi-weekly column for Folha de Sao Paulo, Brazil’s leading newspaper. She holds a B.A. from the University of California and a M.A. and Ph. D. from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.

http://news.cofc.edu/2013/04/09/esteemed-cuban-policy-expert-to-speak-at-the-college-of-charleston/

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