2021 Program

The Antiracist Campus Read will span four weeks in March 2021. Participants will dip into a variety of texts, video, and audio with the assistance of a weekly Reading and Reflection Guide. Each week, participants are invited to join a synchronous session led by members of the Steering Group. Please check the FAQs for details about the program.

2021 Theme: The Humanity and Dehumanization of Black People

Week 1: March 8, 2021

Orientation to Antiracism in Higher Education
Content: TBD

Synchronous session: Thursday, March 11, 5-6pm

Instructors:
Nancy Campos, AMP/CSTEP, Director for AC^2 Program
Asilia Franklin-Phipps, Department of Teaching and Learning, Assistant Professor
Andrea Gatzke, History Department, Associate Professor
Jennifer Rutner, Sojourner Truth Library, Senior Assistant Librarian
Robyn Sheridan, Department of Educational Studies and Leadership, Assistant Professor

 

Week 2: March 15, 2021

Microaggressions and the Emboddied Experience
Content: Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

Synchronous session: Thursday, March 18, 5-6pm

Instructors:
Adrianna Martinez, Sojourner Truth Library, Senior Assistant Librarian
Jennifer Rutner, Sojourner Truth Library, Senior Assistant Librarian

 

Week 3: March 22, 2021

Systematized Racism and the Black Body
Content: Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond, by Marc Lamont Hill

Synchronous session: Thursday, March 25, 5-6pm

Instructors:
Anthony Dandridge, Black Studies Department, Lecturer
Andrea Gatzke, History Department, Associate Professor

 

Week 4: March 29, 2021

Language, Gender, Race
Content: Poetry of Denez Smith

Synchronous session: Thursday, April 1, 5-6pm

Instructors:
Asilia Franklin-Phipps, Department of Teaching and Learning, Assistant Professor
Adrianna Martinez, Sojourner Truth Library, Senior Assistant Librarian
Robyn Sheridan, Department of Educational Studies and Leadership, Assistant Professor

2021 Steering Group

Nancy Campos, AMP/CSTEP, Director for AC^2 Program
Mark Colvson, Sojourner Truth Library, Dean of the Library
Anthony Dandridge, Black Studies Department, Lecturer
Asilia Franklin-Phipps, Department of Teaching and Learning, Assistant Professor
Andrea Gatzke, History Department, Associate Professor
Adrianna Martinez, Sojourner Truth Library, Senior Assistant Librarian
Robyn Sheridan, Department of Educational Studies and Leadership, Assistant Professor

Special thanks to Ramon Vasquez, Taijah Pink, and Izabelle Silva do Nascimento for their contributions to the planning of the program.