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Race Matters Series
The Erotic Life of Racism, Explained Sharon Holland
MCC Lounge
Sharon Holland will introduce students to the work behind the book, The Erotic Life of Racism (ELR). If racism has an everyday life, how does it remain so powerful and yet mask its very presence? To answer this question, ELR moves into the territory of the erotic, understanding racism's practice as constitutive to the practice of racial being and erotic choice. Starting with the everyday scene that inspired the book, Professor Holland will trace the everyday life of racist practice by way of popular culture. Sharon Holland is Associate Professor in African & African American Studies at Duke University and author of The Erotic Life of Racism. Books will be sold following the presentation.
Cup of Culture
Young Lakota
MCC Theater
A young Lakota woman, Sunny Clifford, returns to the Pine Ridge Reservation and is inspired by her tribe’s first female president, Cecelia Fire Thunder. Cecelia defies a South Dakota law banning abortion by threatening to build a women’s clinic on the reservation. Embroiled in a controversial political season that hinges on reproductive rights and tribal sovereignty, Sunny and others are drawn into a political firestorm that changes the course of their lives. Marion Lipschutz & Rose Rosenblatt, 82 min., English, 2012, USA. Co-sponsored by the EOP-American Indian Cultural Resource Center.
MCC in I.V.
An Evening of Spoken Word
Biko Garage - 6612 Sueño Rd., Isla Vista
Calling all conscious poets to the stage! The MCC is creating an open mic for anyone to artistically express themselves while educating others on current issues affecting students of color, women, differently abled people, queers, and allies. Come, enjoy and share talents in this safe space for a night of “edutainment.”
DIVERSITY LECTURE
The N*!@% Moment: Examining Racist Outbursts in 'Cosmopolitan Canopies' Elijah Anderson
MCC Theater
Elijah Anderson introduces the concept of the “cosmopolitan canopy”—the urban island of civility that exists in ethnic enclaves where segregation is the norm. Incidents can arise that threaten the canopy, including scenes of racism, classism, heterosexism, homophobia and sexism. Anderson reveals how the canopy can ease tensions, but also how the spaces in and between canopies can reinforce boundaries. Elijah Anderson is Director of the Yale Urban Ethnography Project, the William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Sociology at Yale University, and author of Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City and The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life. Books will be sold following the presentation. Co-sponsored by the Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity and Academic Policy; and the Office of Equal Opportunity & Sexual Harassment/Title IX Compliance.
