All Events
Art and Social Policy: A Conversation with Blair Underwood
MCC THEATER
Blair Underwood, motion picture actor, Harvard guest lecturer, and book producer, will be interviewed by Visiting Black Studies Professor Derrick Gilbert in connection with the Black Studies course The Urban Dilemma. This conversation will explore ways in which art and popular culture can give us a unique perspective on our most pressing social problems.
Co-sponsored by the department of Black Studies; the Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity and Academic Policy; the Office of Equal Opportunity & Sexual Harassment/Title IX Compliance; and the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor.
Race Matters Series
Race and Hiphop • Dawn-Elissa Fischer
MCC LOUNGE
In this dialogue, Dawn-Elissa Fischer, professor in the Department of Africana Studies at San Francisco State University, explores the analytic relationship between race and Hiphop. That is, how does race operate as a referent within Hiphop culture? How does Hiphop become racially imbued? In this discussion, Hiphop is a point of entry, a site of inquiry for understanding how race, gender, sexuality, class, and citizenship intersect and affect our everyday lived experiences.
Cup of Culture – Meet the Filmmaker
White Boy Brown
MCC THEATER
Armed with only a very important letter, Curtis Brown, a black man embarks on the most difficult journey of his life. A journey that will force him to confront his own demons of hatred and prejudice, while discovering a love, long lost, for his adopted “White” brother Johnny. Discussion with director Sean Sawyer and producers Eren Moore and Christopher Johnson following the screening. Sean Sawyer, 90 min., English, 2009, United States.
DIVERSITY LECTURE
Looking Back to Look Forward: Cross-Cultural Diversity and Today's American Theater • Harry Elam
MCC THEATER
In this talk, Professor Harry Elam will discuss cross-racial diversity in contemporary American theater. Is the current American theater a place where ethnic groups--African Americans, Latinos, Asians--reach across ethnic borders of difference? Do we see new trends in co-ethnic communication? Does or can theater function as a microcosm of the racial dynamics that are playing out in the American social order? Harry Elam is the Olive H. Palmer Professor in the Humanities, the Robert and Ruth Halperin University Fellow for Undergraduate Education, Director of the Institute for Diversity in the Arts, as well as the Senior Associate Vice- Provost for Undergraduate Education at Stanford University.
Co-sponsored by Black Studies; the Center for Black Studies Research; the Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity and Academic Policy; the Office of Equal Opportunity & Sexual Harassment/Title IX Compliance; the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor; and Theater and Dance.
