Talking About Race Matters
For the month of August, NYC’s Dyckman Farmhouse Museum is launching “Talking About Race Matters” – a lecture series directly responding to current events.
Set in a community predominantly made up of people of color, the uptown Manhattan landmark is addressing racism through four, virtual Wednesday talks, which are all listed below my signature. Topics will range from an anti-racism “starter pack” and the emergence of whiteness as a construct, to race formations in Latin America and how car travel became a form of anti-oppression in the 20th century.
The Anti-Racism Starter Pack: 5 Things to Know about Race, Racism, and Anti-Racism
August 5th
Speakers: Sallie Han, PhD and Tracy Betsinger, PhD, SUNY Oneonta Department of Anthropology
Covering what constitutes as “race” and the social impacts of racism, with the hope that when we are ourselves better informed, we can help educate and guide others, as well as fight back and call out ignorance and misinformation.
Driving While Black: Race, Space and the Automobile
August 12th
Speaker: Dr. Gretchen Sullivan Sorin
Revealing how the car has always held particular importance for African Americans – allowing black families to evade the many dangers presented by an entrenched racist society and to resist oppression, with the help of a network of black travel guides and black businesses.
Whiteness, Slavery, and the Making of Race in the Atlantic World
August 19th
Speaker: Dr. Matthew Reilly
Exploring how whiteness emerged in the midst of debates surrounding forms of unfree labor on the Caribbean island of Barbados, and how early, modern racial distinctions were socio-legally constructed.
Thinking Through Race Formations in Latin America and the U.S.
August 26th
Speaker: Dr. Maria Chaves Daza
Providing an introduction to how race formations differ between the U.S. and Latin America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean.
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