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Community Dialogue Groups
Registration is CLOSED for Fall 2009 Community Dialogues.
Our highly acclaimed Community Dialogue Groups bring together fifteen to twenty individuals and two or three experienced facilitators as a study group. Generally, groups meet eight times over a semester. Each group is racially diverse and includes faculty, staff, students, administrators and alumni.
Over breakfast, lunch, dinner, or mid-afternoon snacks, group members discuss short assigned readings, films, or other relevant materials on topics related to race in an honest, probing and constructive way. The readings introduce participants to general ideas about race in the United States and the impact of these ideas at Emory. Groups are encouraged to move from these intimate conversations to constructive public action. Meals and reading materials are provided free to participants. From Fall 2005 through Fall 2006, nearly 500 Emory citizens participated in Community Dialogues. All voices are welcome to the table for these dialogues.
Sample Community Dialogues Syllabus
Week 1: Introductory Session:
- “From Disenchantment to Dialogue and Action: The Transforming Community Project at Emory University,” by Leslie Harris and Jody Usher, Change, March/April 2008.
- “After Katrina: How To Talk About Race,” Tolerance.org.
Week 2: Race at Emory in the 19th Century
In Session Film Screening and Discussion: Excerpt from 2nd episode of Race: The Power of an Illusion—The Story We Tell
- “Kitty's Cottage and the Methodist Civil War,” by Alison Adams, Emory Magazine, Autumn 2000.
- “The Myth of Kitty,” pp. 2-4, 5-9 (starting with “Old Church and Kitty’s Cottage”), by Mark Auslander
- 3 Photographs of Emory @ Oxford.
Week 3: Race at Emory in the Early 20th Century Readings on Racial Violence
- Sam Hose Lynching”: http://ourgeorgiahistory.com/ogh/The_Lynching_of_Sam_Hose
- “The Voice of a Prophet: Andrew Sledd Revisited,” by Terry L. Matthews
- “The Three Wise Monkeys of Nikko”
- “The Leo Frank Case Reconsidered: Gender and Sexual Politics in the Making of Reactionary Populism,” by Nancy MacLean. The Journal of American History, Vol. 78, No. 3, (Dec., 1991), pp. 917- 920.
Emory Beyond Black & White:
- “Grits and Gefilte: How did a southern Methodist college become a destination for America's Jews?,” by Steven Stein, Emory Wheel, April 2006.
- “Emory’s Latino Connection: Gaining Momentum?” by Meg McDermott, p. 11-16.
- A Legacy of Heart and Mind by Gary Hauk, 1999. pp. 48-49.
Week 4: Race and the Challenge of Desegregation at Emory
Film Screening and Discussion: 1st episode of Race: The Power of an Illusion—The Difference Between Us.
- A Legacy of Heart and Mind by Gary Hauk, 1999. pg 113-115.
- Emory Wheel Articles: Desegregation
- “Emory’s Latino Connection: Gaining Momentum?” by Meg McDermott, p. 25-37.
- Emory Wheel articles: Debate on Race and Genetics
Week 5: How We Talk About Racism at Emory—Part I
Film Screening and Discussion: Ethnic Notions and Don’t Stereotype Asian Americans
- “Don’t Misread My Signals” by Judith Ortiz Cofer
- "Arab Culture and Muslim Stereotypes," by James Emery. Middle East Times, June 17, 2008.
- Emory Wheel Articles: Halloween & Blackface
Week 6: How We Talk About Racism at Emory—Part II
- Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, Randall Kennedy, pp. xi-44, 136-139, 141-148.
- Emory Wheel Articles: A Troublesome Word
- Emory Discriminatory Harassment Policy - excerpt
Week 7: Emory’s Power, Privilege, and Responsibility to the Community at Large
- “White Privilege Shapes the US” by Robert Jensen
- "The New South's Capitol Likes to Contradict Itself" by Jelani Cobb
- Articles: Emory In the Community
Week 8: Group Choice/Taking Action
Video Screening and Discussion: “Reporting Out” Video from Spring 2008—First Three Years of TCP
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