Courageous 对话 Towards 种族平等 is a 对话-centered initiative on racism and privilege designed to address racial healing, 股本, 和正义.
The Courageous 对话 Facilitation Team, a group of faculty, students and administrators, brings together a diverse group of the BC Community for conversations on race and racial justice.
任务
The program was created on the principle that racism impacts all of us. We recognize that understanding, 打断, and dismantling internal and external racism is lifelong work and cannot just be achieved by a series of seminars, but we believe that engagement with people across various lines of difference is an essential element of this work. As we come to know one another, we will recognize the inherent dignity within each of us, find common ground, and learn from one another in a trusting, authentic community.
合作伙伴
The 电子游戏软件 Forum on 种族平等
The Forum on 种族平等 in America will provide a meeting place for listening, 对话, and greater understanding about race and racism in our country, while serving as a catalyst for bridging differences, promoting reconciliation, and encouraging new perspectives.
Environmental Studies Program
The Environmental Studies Program is an undergraduate interdisciplinary major and minor program that prepares students to envision and implement paths towards social justice, environmental health, and economic prosperity so that all people may flourish.
Past 对话
Color Consciousness: Know Your Racial Identity
2023年11月9日
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
McElroy Commons, 教师 Dining Room
The next Courageous Conversation is scheduled for Thursday, November 9th, 2023, 7:00-8:30 p.m. in the McElroy Commons 教师 Dining Room. Dinner will be available. A team of students, 工作人员, and faculty are excited to bring this initiative to the campus community. Join us for an evening of resource sharing and small-group discussion, where we will strive to understand the value of color consciousness.
Dipti Bramhandkar presents her monologue, 美国新秀
2023年4月25日
6:00 PM
Robsham Theater Arts Center, Bonn Theatre
The Courageous 对话 is delighted to welcome playwright Dipti Bramhandkar to 电子游戏软件 to present her monologue, 美国新秀. Part coming-of-age tale, part social commentary, 部分是喜剧, 美国新秀 grapples with what it means to be an immigrant at a time when the country couldn't stop talking about it. Inspired by playwright Dipti Bramhandkar's experiences in America after moving from Mumbai to Central New York State, 美国新秀 brings to life the joy, 幽默, and pain of the assimilation process — from mimicking 80's fashion and studying Judy Blume books to constructing a new American persona altogether.
Ms. Bramhandkar staged 美国新秀 in January 2020 to local acclaim. Since that time, and between other projects, Ms. Bramhandkar has taken 美国新秀 to college campuses and looks forward to bringing the work to 电子游戏软件. The monologue will be by Q&A and discussion with Ms. Bramhamdkar, and then a light reception. Sponsored with an ILA grant
A Community Conversation
February 15, 2023
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
McElroy Commons, 教师 Dining Room
An opportunity for students and administrators to engae in important 对话 focused on racial identity and experiences. Dinner will be provided.
What's Your Racism Blindspot? The Hidden Biases of Good People
December 07, 2022
晚上七时至八时
关于 Couragous 对话: A team of students, 工作人员, and faculty are excited to bring this initiative to the BC community. The entire BC community is welcome to CC@BC events. Hungry for 对话 about race, privilege, and identity at 电子游戏软件? Join the initiative: Join us for evenings of resource sharing and small-group discussion, where we will strive to unpack the meaning of implicit biases and blindspots
Cultural Appropriation
2022年10月20日
晚上7时至8时30分
Walsh Hall, Function Room
Cultural appropriation happens when members of a dominant group use cultural elements of a non-dominant group in an exploitative and disrespectful way that reinforces stereotypes and contributes to oppression. We will discuss the negative consequences of cultural appropriation and the differences between appreciation and appropriation.
The Commodification of BIPOC Bodies
2022年4月25日
晚上7时至8时30分
Walsh Hall, Function Room
There are a lot of directions this conversation can take – most obviously, 奴隶制, where the exploitation of the Black body generated great wealth, but we might also discuss other ways in which BIPOC bodies are commodified -- mass incarceration, Asianfishing, 黑鲸, sexual objectification, 边缘化, and cultural appropriation are just some of the topics we’ll discuss.
Race in College 电子游戏软件s
2022年3月22日
晚上七时至上午八时三十分
Walsh Hall, Function Room
美国.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly upheld race-conscious admissions programs through the decades, but the court’s new conservative supermajority has agreed to hear two cases that put the fate of affirmative action in higher education into question. How is race used in the college admissions process? How might these cases impact the diversity of the student body on college campuses?
A Conversation in Collaboration with the 体育运动 Department on The Loyola Project
2022年3月1日
晚上七时至上午八时三十分
Walsh Hall, Function Room
At a time when it was uncommon for college basketball teams to play more than three Black players at any one time, the 1963 Loyola University Chicago Ramblers started four Black players and won the NCAA championship. This team not only revolutionized the way college basketball was played, but also battled and overcame extreme racism both on and off the court. The Loyola Project tells their story. The documentary film will be screened in Robsham Theatre on Monday February 28, prior to the conversation on Tuesday.
What is Critical Race Theory and Why is it Under Attack?
February 16, 2022
晚上7时至8时30分
虚拟
Is “critical race theory” a way of understanding how American racism has shaped public policy, or a divisive discourse that pits people of color against white people? The topic has exploded in the public arena —especially in K-12, where numerous state legislatures are debating bills seeking to ban its use in the classroom. Professor Daniel Farbman, 法学院, will join the conversation to give us a primer on critical race theory.
The Social Construction of Whiteness
2021年11月30日
晚上7时至8时30分
Walsh Function Room
Constructions of whiteness have changed over time, shifting with social change.Ta-Nehisi Coates has described whiteness as “an existential danger to the country and the world.” What is “Whiteness” and why don’t we talk about it more?
“So, what are you anyway?” The Complexities of Racial Identity if you are neither White nor Black
2021年10月27日
晚上7时至8时30分
Walsh Function Room
This topic can include the complexity of race in the Latinx & AAPI communities and for bi-racial & 多种族folx.
The Race Card Project
September 30, 2021
晚上7时至8时30分
麦克尔罗伊237年
NPR Journalist Michele Norris started The Race Card Project where people from around the world share their experiences, 问题, 希望, 和梦想, 哀叹道, and observations about race and identity –in just six words–as the starting point for conversations about race.
A Conversation on Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
February 17, 2021
7-8:30pm
A campus conversation on the winter break book read which was the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry in 2014, and a finalist for the National Book Award. (Co-Sponsored w/ the Forum on 种族平等)
种族平等 and Covid-19
2021年3月9日
7-8:30pm
A Conversation about how systemic health inequities have put Black and Brown people at increased risk for Covid-19. Black, Indigenous & Latinx communities are suffering disproportionately in this pandemic.
Mass Incarceration and Racial Inequality
2021年3月31日
7-8:30pm
America is number one in incarceration. Over the past several decades, we have built the largest prison population in the entire world, with a concentration of imprisonment among young, 黑人男性. How did we get here?
Racial Equity, Representation & Inclusion: A Celebration of the Arts
2021年4月15日
7-8:30pm
A celebratory final event that highlights some of the many artistic achievements of BIPOC.
种族平等 & Democratic Citizenship: A Pre-Election Conversation in collaboration w/ The Forum on 种族平等
2020年10月10日
A conversation about the importance of voting and participating in the democratic process, as John Lewis rightly noted, as a means to redeem the soul of our nation.