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.