DOR Advanced Series Description
DIALOGUE ON RACE – ADVANCE SERIES
Dialogue on Race Advanced series enhances participants understanding of race, foster better communication around the topic of race and facilitates intelligent action when confronted with race issues.
Open to DOR Original Series Alum Only
Four Sessions
Session I “Mississippi: A Self Portrait “An NBC News Documentary: Dateline aired May 1966 http://www.nbcnews.com/video/dateline/48178080#48178080
The documentary film by Frank De Felitta was filmed in 1965 less than a year after a series of murders, lynchings and church bombings in Mississippi. The film examines how white Mississippians reconciled themselves to their culture. The results of the brief cameo appearances in the film of a black waiter led to us having this video 50 years later.
You can click on the link above to view the film before attending the first session
Race: “The Illusion of Power” (on DVD) Sessions 2, 3, & 4
Session II
Episode 1: The Difference Between Us -- examines the contemporary science - including genetics - that challenges our common sense assumptions that human beings can be bundled into three or four fundamentally different groups according to their physical traits.
Session III
Episode 2: The Story We Tell - uncovers the roots of the race concept in North America, the 19th century science that legitimated it, and how it came to be held so fiercely in the western imagination. The episode is an eye-opening tale of how race served to rationalize, even justify, American social inequalities as "natural."
Session IV
Episode 3: The House We Live in; asks, If race is not biology, what is it? This episode uncovers how race resides not in nature but in politics, economics and culture. It reveals how our social institutions "make" race by disproportionately channeling resources, power, status and wealth to white people.
Dialogue on Race Advanced series enhances participants understanding of race, foster better communication around the topic of race and facilitates intelligent action when confronted with race issues.
Open to DOR Original Series Alum Only
Four Sessions
Session I “Mississippi: A Self Portrait “An NBC News Documentary: Dateline aired May 1966 http://www.nbcnews.com/video/dateline/48178080#48178080
The documentary film by Frank De Felitta was filmed in 1965 less than a year after a series of murders, lynchings and church bombings in Mississippi. The film examines how white Mississippians reconciled themselves to their culture. The results of the brief cameo appearances in the film of a black waiter led to us having this video 50 years later.
You can click on the link above to view the film before attending the first session
Race: “The Illusion of Power” (on DVD) Sessions 2, 3, & 4
Session II
Episode 1: The Difference Between Us -- examines the contemporary science - including genetics - that challenges our common sense assumptions that human beings can be bundled into three or four fundamentally different groups according to their physical traits.
Session III
Episode 2: The Story We Tell - uncovers the roots of the race concept in North America, the 19th century science that legitimated it, and how it came to be held so fiercely in the western imagination. The episode is an eye-opening tale of how race served to rationalize, even justify, American social inequalities as "natural."
Session IV
Episode 3: The House We Live in; asks, If race is not biology, what is it? This episode uncovers how race resides not in nature but in politics, economics and culture. It reveals how our social institutions "make" race by disproportionately channeling resources, power, status and wealth to white people.