Join the virtual guided dialogue on the anthropology of race, racism, and privilege with the anthropology graduate students from the University of Colorado Boulder. We will be discussing what it means for white folks and non-Black POC to be an ally to Black communities at this time. We will have room for audience questions as well and hope to foster a real dialogue on race at this present moment. This event is solely intended for educational purposes and open to anyone of any racial, ethnic, religious, gender, and immigration status backgrounds who truly want to stay informed and engaged.
This event is organized by the Anthropology Graduate Student Association at CU Boulder (AGSA)
Sponsored by OLA Colorado (Observatorio Latinoamérica), and United Government of Graduate Students CU Boulder.
Date: Friday, June 19th, 2020
Time: 4 to 6 pm (MDT)
Speaker: Bailey Duhé, Ph.D. Candidate in Cultural Anthropology at CU Boulder
Bailey’s research looks at questions of racial fluidity, generational trauma, colorism, critical race and critical mixed race studies, and American Blackness(es) in New Orleans, Louisiana with Creoles of color in the 7th Ward. As an educator, Bailey is committed to teaching her students at their individual levels by using ethnography as her pedagogy and promoting real, messy learning, especially around race. She is currently teaching "Brown Studies" which is a course that centers mixed and multiracial experiences in a discussion of race theory. Bailey is working to develop two additional courses: "Let's Talk About Race" (an introductory anthropology course that centers race in a discussion of the history of and central ideas in anthropology) and "Race: A Mini-Seminar" (a mini, 2-hour seminar designed to teach race to non-academic individuals who want to understand more about race and their involvement in structural and anti-Black racism).
Moderator: Chu May Paing, Ph.D. Student in Cultural Anthropology at CU Boulder
Chu is interested in the flow of semiotic culture in political narratives and discourses in Myanmar (Burma). Her undergraduate and previous graduate training in sociocultural linguistics and linguistic anthropology complement her broader research interests in post-coloniality, modernity, affect, gender, law, and aesthetics in cultural anthropology. Her previous works look at how the concepts of belonging and identity are problematized in the process of heritage language maintenance among transnational Sino-Burmese immigrant families in New York City.
Join us for this guided discussion via Zoom. We look forward to sharing this important experience with you.