New seminar series Racism and Anti-Racism in Contemporary America. Hosted by the Stavros Niachos Foundation Paideia Program at Penn, 13 virtual panel conversations with faculty and guest experts tackle racial disparity.
What is the current state of racial disparity in the United States? What are its root causes, and how can we address them? These are the questions posed to Penn faculty and guest participants in Racism and Anti-Racism in Contemporary America, a preceptorial run by the Stavros Niachos Foundation Paideia Program in partnership with other Penn entities and consisting of 13 conversations running throughout the 2020-21 academic year.
https://snfpaideia.upenn.edu/courses/racism-and-anti-racism-in-contemporary-america/
The program, which is open to the public, is a collaboration between the SNF Paideia Program, the Office of the Vice President for Social Equity & Community, the Office of the Provost, the Andrea Mitchell Center, Civic House, and New Student Orientation and Academic Initiatives as part of the Year of Civic Engagement.
A preceptorial is not a course taken for credit but rather a discussion of ideas, said Provost Wendell Pritchett, who introduced the first panel on Oct. 26.
“The killings and protests of this year have led many observers to wonder, and I include myself here, if the country is at a precipice of a steep decline or at the beginning of a welcome rise to a fair and more equal future. It’s safe to say it feels like a tipping point one way or another. I’m hopeful and cautiously optimistic that it’s the latter,” Pritchett said. “That said, this is our reality. There’s no corner of American life unaffected by racism.”
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