by lindaoppenheim | May 3, 2017 | Article
Ruha Benjamin, leader in racial literacy, encourages white people to interrogate their white spaces. In this article, Leah Shafer supplies questions teachers in primarily white schools can use to frame the discussion.
by lindaoppenheim | Apr 6, 2017 | Article
In his article in Hyperallergic Ryan Wong provides “assignments for the white artist to understand their own racial position,” assignments which can be applied to many different vocations and aspects of the white world. Try them. ...
by lindaoppenheim | Feb 28, 2017 | Events
Poet Claudia Rankine, visiting professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts, will give the annual Theodore H. Holmes ’51 and Bernice Holmes Lecture “On Whiteness and the Racial Imaginary Institute” at 5 p.m. Wednesday, March 1, in...
by lindaoppenheim | Jan 3, 2017 | interview
Poet and MacArthur genius grant winner Claudia Rankine explains her motivation and plans for the Racial Imaginary Institute. “She wants it to be a ‘space which allows us to show art, to curate dialogues, have readings, and talk about the ways in which the...
by lindaoppenheim | Nov 17, 2016 | Opinion
One of sixteen writers asked by the New Yorker to comment after the election, Toni Morrison notes that “for many people, the definition of ‘Americanness’ is color.”
