Archive for September, 2008
Posted on September 26, 2008 - by Administrator
ATR 96 – Race, Gender and the Election
Does the new AP/Yahoo poll on race actually tell us anything we didn’t already know? Does Sarah Palin really represent “a brand new style of muscular American feminism?” What’s the difference between a black conservative crossing party lines to vote for Obama and a white female liberal crossing party lines to vote for Palin?
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Guest co-host Jenn Fang blogs at Reappropriate: a blog focusing on issues of race, gender, and grassroots activism as they affect the formation of the Asian American sociopolitical identity.
Duration – 51:49
File Size – 35.7 MB
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Posted on September 10, 2008 - by Administrator
ATR Premium 7 – Dr. Peggy McIntosh – Preview
What is unearned privilege, and why are people so reluctant to admit that they have it? How can we use our privilege to do good? What does the existence of systems of power and privilege say about the United States’ focus on meritocracy? Peggy McIntosh is Associate Director of the Wellesley Centers for Women and author of the renowned essay White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack.
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Peggy McIntosh is Associate Director of the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. She is Founder and Co-director of the United States S.E.E.D. Project on Inclusive Curriculum (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity). She consults widely in the United States and throughout the world with college and school faculty who are creating more gender-fair and multicultural curricula. In 1988, she published the ground-breaking article, “White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences through Work on Women’s Studies.” This analysis and its shorter form, “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack,” 1989, have been instrumental in putting the dimension of privilege into discussions of gender, race, and sexuality in the United States. McIntosh has taught at the Brearley School, Harvard University, Trinity College (Washington, D.C.), the University of Denver, the University of Durham (England), and Wellesley College. She is co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Women’s Institute and has been consulting editor the Sage: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women. She has consulted with women on 22 Asian campuses on the development of Women’s Studies, and programs to bring materials from Women’s Studies into the main curriculum. She has consulted frequently in China and Korea. In addition to having two honorary degrees, she is the recipient of the Klingenstein Award for Distinguished Educational Leadership from Columbia Teachers College.
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Duration – 23:22
File Size – 16.4 MB
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Posted on September 3, 2008 - by Administrator
ATR 95 – Race, Religion, and Australia
Australian documentary filmmaker John Safran shares his experiences exploring race and religion in America. What are the theological underpinnings of the Ku Klux Klan? Why did an exorcist single out African-American members of his audience to help expel demons? We also discuss similarities and differences between race in America and race in Australia.
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John Safran is comedy-focused documentarian most known in Australia for his religion series John Safran vs God and his music industry expose John Safran’s Music Jamboree. He co-hosts Sunday Night Safran on Triple J with Catholic Priest Father Bob Maguire.
Duration – 56:18
File Size – 38.7 MB
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Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of New Demographic, a diversity education firm. Her perspectives on race and diversity have been featured on CNN, MSNBC, NPR, USA Today, and The New York Times.
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