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MillerComm Lecture Series

Now What? Awakening From the Dream of Whiteness

Saturday, October 11th, 2003
Adrian Piper
3:30 pm

Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum
600 South Gregory
Urbana

Event Description

Now that we know that the concept of race was developed in order to rationalize slavery in the Americas and has no legitimate use, meaning, or reference, how do we deal with the blatant inequities in wealth, status, and opportunities inherited from the fictional concept of whiteness?  In particular, how do "whites" who have benefited from this fiction deal with them?

Hosted by: Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society, School of Art and Design

In conjunction with: Afro-American Studies and Research Program, College of Fine and Applied Arts, Gender and Women's Studies Program, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Krannert Art Museum, Office of the Chancellor, School of Art and Design, Art Education Program, Narrative Media Program, Painting Program, Spurlock Museum, Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program

Adrian Piper

Artist and Professor, Department of Philosophy, Wellesley College