Community Dialogues

Community Dialogues provide a unique opportunity to engage the Emory University community in a series of open, honest and civil discussions concerning the multifaceted meanings, histories and experiences of race at and beyond Emory. In small, supportive group sessions, librarians, archivists, faculty, students, staff, administrators, alumni, trustees and others, will join to examine different approaches to race and to develop new, concrete strategies to transform the university.

Fall 2006 Syllabus

Week 1 – September 10
Introductory session

• Race Matters by Cornel West - Prefaces, Introduction, Epilogue
• Selected Emory Wheel Articles
• Emory Student Video

Week 2 – September 17
Race and History – Part I

• "The Myth of Kitty," pp. 1-5, 23-31 (starting with "Old Church and Kitty's Cottage"), Mark Auslander
• A Legacy of Heart and Mind by Gary Hauk, 1999. pg 13
• Slaves in the Family  by Edward Ball, Ch. 10

Week 3 – October 1
Race and History – Part II 

• "The Voice of a Prophet: Andrew Sledd Revisited," by Terry L. Matthews
• Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz, Ch. 11: Gone With the Window
• Mark Auslander, "Saying Something Now: Documentary Work and the Voices of the Dead,"  Michigan Quarterly Review Fall 2005, 685-689.
• Web site:  http://www.1906atlantaraceriot.org/

Week 4 – October 15
What is Race?

• Film Screening & Discussion: "Race: The Power of an Illusion," PBS Documentary, Episode 1 (Online companion to this series at: http://www.pbs.org/race/000_General/000_00-Home.htm)
• "Blacks Pin Hope on DNA to Fill Slavery's Gaps in Family Trees" by Amy Harmon
• Selected Emory Wheel Articles – Polignano; Chace

Thursday October 11
Facilitator's Dinner

October 17
Special Event

• 365 Plays in 365 Days -  Two theatre directors (Judge Luckey and Ken Hornbeck) provide creative expertise as TCP Dialogue participants discover their skills as we join the 365 International Festival. http://www.365days365plays.com/atlanta/index.php?sub=1&week=49 

Week 5 – October 29
What is Racism? Part I

• Film Screening & Discussion: "Ethnic Notions"
• "Seeing More Than Black and White," by Elizabeth Martinez
• Selected Emory Wheel articles

November 1, 2
Special Event

• 1906/2006/2106 – An original dance/theater performance piece examining multiple forms of oppression and transcendence that continues the efforts of the Coalition to Remember the 1906 Atlanta Race Riot.

Week 6 – November 12
What is Racism? Part II

• Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, Randall Kennedy, pp. xi-44, 89-147
• Selected Emory Wheel articles

Week 7 – November 26
Group Choice
Taking Action Against Racism!

Selections TBA

Week 8 – December 3
Group Choice

Whiteness; Race and Class; Race and Affirmative Action; Race and Music; Race and Health; Race and Art; Action Planning

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