{"id":27029,"date":"2012-12-20T21:31:25","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T21:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=27029"},"modified":"2012-12-20T21:33:03","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T21:33:03","slug":"u-ms-understanding-race-project-examines-issues-at-heart-of-the-human-experience-advances-national-conversation-on-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=27029","title":{"rendered":"U-M’s Understanding Race Project examines issues at heart of the human experience, advances national conversation on race"},"content":{"rendered":"

U-M’s Understanding Race Project examines issues at heart of the human experience, advances national conversation on race<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

University of Michigan
\nNews Release
\n2012-12-19<\/p>\n

Contacts:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Frank Provenzano<\/a>, (734) 647-4411
\nMaryanne George<\/a>, (734) 615-6514
\nDeborah Greene<\/a>, (734) 763-4008<\/p>\n

Twitter hashtags: #UnderstandRace, #UMtheme<\/p>\n

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\nANN ARBOR\u2014Few subjects provoke as strong a visceral response as the topic of race. One-hundred-and-fifty years after the United States was nearly fractured by the battle over slavery and more than a half-century since the modern Civil Rights Movement emerged, the University of Michigan is launching the Understanding Race Project.
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\nFrom January through April, an extensive range of public exhibits, performances, lectures, symposia and more than 130 courses in several disciplines will explore the concept of race and its impacts. The historical, cultural, psychological and legal interpretations of race will be examined from both national and global perspectives.
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\nHighlights of the project include the “Race: Are We So Different?” exhibit developed by the American Anthropological Association and the Science Museum of Minnesota and “IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas,” a Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibit.
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\nMorris Dees, co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center; Angela Davis, educator and civil rights activist; and Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, N.J., are among the dozens of lecturers speaking at U-M as part of the project…<\/p>\n

…JANUARY EVENT HIGHLIGHTS<\/strong>
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\nWHAT<\/strong>: IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas, a Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibit<\/p>\n

WHEN<\/strong>: Jan. 9-31<\/p>\n

DESCRIPTION<\/strong>: The story of people who share African American and Native American ancestry has long been invisible. For 500 years or more, African American and Native people have come together, creating shared histories, communities and ways of life. Often divided by prejudice, laws or twists of history, African-Native Americans are united by a double heritage that is truly indivisible.<\/p>\n

WHERE<\/strong>: Duderstadt Center Gallery on U-M’s North Campus, 2281 Bonisteel Blvd., Ann Arbor. The gallery is open Noon-6 p.m. Monday through Friday, and Noon-5 p.m. on Sundays. The gallery will be open from Noon-6 p.m. on Martin Luther King Day.
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\nWHAT<\/strong>: “Identities in Red, Black and White: A Roundtable Discussion”<\/p>\n

WHEN<\/strong>:\u00a0 4-6 p.m. Jan. 10<\/p>\n

DESCRIPTION<\/strong>: This public program will address mixed-race identities from autobiographical and storytelling perspectives and within the context of social and cultural analysis.<\/p>\n

EXPERTS<\/strong>: Roundtable panelists express a mixed native identity of some kind\u2014whether that connection is via family ties and\/or cultural ties, including:<\/p>\n