MSU Race In 21st century

This year’s conference theme is “Race and Rights: Empowering our communities” and will use a hybrid model. The live, invited guests and presenters are scheduled for virtual sessions Tuesday and Wednesday (3/29, 3/30). However, we officially begin with an in-person event at the MSU Union primarily geared towards students and young activists, allowing them the ability to display scholar, activist, or political issues related to our theme, with the hopes of facilitating cross group conversations and building encouraging issue-based coalition building.

MSU Race Conference

The Twelfth Biennial Race in 21st Century Americas Conference,
“Race and Rights: Empowering Our Communities"

MSU Union

All Virtual Sessions are accessible via the webinar link.Webinar ID: 975 7545 5740 Passcode: Race2022

The Twelfth Biennial Race in 21st Century Americas Conference 2022 Theme: “Race and Rights: Empowering Our Communities” The Race Conference is a crucial part of Michigan State’s history. It historically brings together leading scholars and community activists from around the nation, with a diversity of racial, ethnic, and ideological approaches, to have important conversations about race.  The first conference was held in 1999 under the leadership of Professor Emeritus Curtis Stokes, and he continued organizing and participating in the conference up until his retirement in 2019. Under his leadership, scholars, policy makers and activists such as Ronald Takaki, Cornel West, Michelle Alexander, Patricia Hill Collins, Juliane Malveaux, Ward Churchill, Charles Mills, and Rashida Tlaib have visited campus to lend their expertise on important race-related issues. This year's theme is in part a response to the historical moment we are living in, building on a renewed energy of activists, educators, movement makers and policy creators. We want to continue the conversations around fundamental rights of citizens and human beings of various spaces in the Americas. As colonialism and capitalism remain the primary of racialized experiences; we continue to resist and reclaim our humanity. This hybrid conference features and in-person student day, and two in-person prerecorded keynote watch parties, five virtual scholarly panels that feature scholar activists in a variety of forms. In addition, we will have several virtual watch parties of the prerecorded keynote over the weekend (times will be posted by Thursday March 24). The pre-recorded keynote from Soul Fire Farms is a prelude to the virtual live session with Director of Education, Naima Penniman and shane bernardo.

Student and Youth Day Theme :“From the Individual to the Collective”Friday, March 25, 2022, 11 a.m.- 4 p.m.Location: MSU Union, Lake Huron, 3rd Floor11-11:30: Opening: Greetings, Introductions and Community Rules 11:30-12:30- Session 1 “The Individual to the Collective”: A Workshop facilitated by Professor Terese Monberg of RCAH 12:30-1 Lunch Break1-2:30- Session 2 “Electoral Politicin’'' a conversation with activist, and founder/ CEO of One Love Global, Angela Austin Waters. Video Greeting and discussion from, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib 2:30-3- Greetings from Dr. Jabbar Bennett, Vice President, and MSU Chief Diversity Office, Break and Community Networking 3-4:00- Session 3- “Sowing Seeds with the W.E. B. DuBois Society”: Activity and Community discussion accompanied by Professors Daniel Ahlquist and Rashida Harrison of JMC.Please stick around as we have a watch party of our Virtual , Prerecorded, Keynote "Uprooting Racism" from <a href="https://www.soulfirefarm.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Soul Fire Farms </a>@ 4:45- 5:30 PM! "

Join us over the weekend for one of the six Virtual Watch Parties of the prerecorded keynote from Soul Fire Farms. The presentation is 45 minutes long. Saturday, March 26, 2022:11 a.m., 1 p.m., 3 p.m.Sunday, March 27, 2022:12 p.m., 2 p.m., 7 p.m.Webinar ID: 975 7545 5740 Password: Race2022The Director of Education of Soul Fire Farms Naima Penniman, will be with us live, virtually on Tuesday evening, March 29, 2022 beginning at 5 p.m.

<a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/uprooting-racism-race-in-the-21st-century-americas-keynote-address-tickets-300082594117" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Uprooting Racism: Race in the 21st Century Americas Keynote Address</a>Join the <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/o/spartan-food-security-council-43466499443" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Spartan Food Security Council</a> in watching our virtual keynote, Uprooting Racism: A pre-recorded, virtual keynote address by Naima Penniman as part of this year's Race in the 21st Century Americas Conference. Mon, March 28, 2022, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM EDTLocation: Club Spartan at Case Hall (Third Floor), 842 Chestnut Road, East Lansing, MI 48825Doors will open at 5:30pm. Refreshments will be served before the keynote, which will begin promptly at 6:15 PM. Mask wearing is strongly encouraged, as is social distancing when possible.Naima will be in conversation with shane bernardo live on Tuesday evening, March 29, 2022 @ 5:00 PM- 6:30PM. <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/uprooting-racism-race-in-the-21st-century-americas-keynote-address-tickets-300082594117" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Please Register !</a>

Virtual Sessions Occurring Tuesday, March 29, 20221. <a href="https://www.keishakhanperry.com/about" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Dr. Keisha-Khan Perry</a>- "Housing as a Matter of Life orDeath in the Americas" @ 12 p.m. EST2. Round table with <a href="https://corposindoceisementeslivres.squarespace.com/sobre" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Corpos Indóceis e Mentes Livres</a>(Insubmissive Bodies, Free Minds) @ 2 p.m.3. Discussion between Keynote, Naima Penniman and <a href="https://www.soulfirefarm.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Soul Fire Farms</a> with <a href="https://www.foodashealing.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">shane bernardo</a>, @ 5 p.m.

Virtual Sessions Occurring Wednesday, March 30, 20221. Panel: "Perspectives on Community Policing" @ 12 p.m.Moderator: Abigail Dejene (Senior in James Madison College, Majoring in Social Relations and Policy, Co-Founder of the Prison Reform Advocacy Group, PRAG)<a href="https://cj.msu.edu/directory/cobbina-jennifer.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Dr. Jennifer Cobbina</a>, Associate Professor, School of Criminal Justice, Author of Hands Up, Don't Shoot: Why the Protests in Ferguson and Baltimore Matter, and How They Changed America (2019, New York University Press)<a href="https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2021/new-chief-of-police-selected" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Chief Marlon Lynch</a>, Vice President for Public Safety and Chief of MSU PoliceTashmica Torok, Nationally Recognized Survivor Activist, Executive Director of <a href="https://thefirecrackerfoundation.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The FireCracker Foundation</a>, and Lansing Community Activist2. <a href="https://www.peoplesworld.org/authors/vijay-prashad/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Dr. Vijay Prashad</a>- "The Ugliness of the Colonial Mentality and of Colonial Institutions" @ 2 p.m.

Thank you sponsors.MSU Office for Academic Human Resources, James Madison College, The College of Arts and Letters Timnick Chair in Humanities, The Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion, College of Arts and Letters, The Graduate School, The Office of the Provost, Council of Diversity Deans, Department of English, Student Life and Engagement, JMC W.E.B. DuBois Society, Spartan Food Security Council , Prison Reform Advocacy Group .

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