RACE: Are We So Different?
February 6 – June 9, 2012
 We all know that people look different. Throughout history, those differences have been a source of strength, community and personal identity. They have also been the basis for discrimination and oppression.
And while those differences are socially and culturally real, contemporary scientific understanding of race and human variation is complex and may challenge how we think about it. RACE: Are We So Different? helps visitors understand what race is and what it is not. It gives them the tools to recognize racial ideas and practices in contemporary American life.
The exhibit explores three themes: the everyday experience of race, the contemporary science that is challenging common ideas about race, and the history of this idea in the United States.
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RACE: Are We So Different?
Opening Reception
Thursday, Feb. 9 at 7 p.m.
For the UNI community Not a UNI Museum-sponsored event
Welcoming Diversity: Building an Inclusive Campus
Friday, Feb. 10
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SATURDAY FILM SERIES, University Museum
Race: The Power of An Illusion
Episode 1: The Difference Between Us
Saturday, Feb. 11 at 1:30 p.m.
Total Run Time 56 minutes
CME Seven Book Club
Tuesday, Feb. 14 3:30 p.m. at the UNI Center for Multicultural Education
Condoleezza Rice: No Higher Honor by Condoleezza Rice
SATURDAY FILM SERIES, University Museum
Race: The Power of An Illusion
Episode 2: The Story We Tell
Saturday, Feb. 18 at 1:30 p.m.
Total Run Time 56 minutes
For the UNI community Not a UNI Museum-sponsored event
Welcoming Diversity: Building an Inclusive Campus
Thursday, Feb. 23
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Opportunity for teachers Not a UNI Museum-sponsored event
Race, Privilege, and Difference Teacher workshop
Friday, Feb. 24
See workshop flyer for details
SATURDAY FILM SERIES, University Museum
Race: The Power of An Illusion
Episode 3: The House We Live In
Saturday, Feb. 25 at 1:30 p.m.
Total Run Time 56 minutes
Racial Categorization: Impact on Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Face Processing
Tuesday, Feb. 28 at 7 p.m.
Dr. Kim MacLin and Dr. Otto MacLin, Department of Psychology
The human brain has evolved to efficiently process information related to race with same-race faces being processed differently than other-race faces. We will discuss how this differential processing affects recognition accuracy, memory, stereotypes, and prejudice in laboratory and real-world contexts.
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For the UNI community Not a UNI Museum-sponsored event
Welcoming Diversity: Building an Inclusive Campus
Saturday, March 3
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For the UNI community Not a UNI Museum-sponsored event
Welcoming Diversity: Building an Inclusive Campus
Tuesday, March 6
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CME Seven Book Club
Thursday, March 22, 3:30 p.m. at the UNI Center for Multicultural Education
Ingratitude: The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian America Literature by Erin Khue Ninh
SATURDAY FILM SERIES, University Museum
Frybread Babes
Saturday, March 24 at 1:30 p.m.
Total Run Time 30 minutes
Immigration, Race and the Power of Delusion
Tuesday, March 27 at 7 p.m.
Dr. Mark Grey, Director, Iowa Center for Immigrant Leadership and Integration and Professor of Anthropology
Center for Multicultural Education Friday Fun Night at UNI Museums
Friday, March 30, 6-8 p.m. at the University Museums
For the UNI community Not a UNI Museum-sponsored event
Welcoming Diversity: Building an Inclusive Campus
Friday, March 30
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For the UNI community Not a UNI Museum-sponsored event
Welcoming Diversity: Building an Inclusive Campus
Wednesday, April 4
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Cedar Valley Discover Diversity Discuss Book Club
Monday, April 9, 4:30 p.m. at the University Museums
Wolf at Twilight: An Indian Elder's Journey through a Land of Ghosts by Kent Nerburn
Author Kent Nerburn will be present to discuss the book
Witness to Whiteness: Shades of White Anti-Racism
Tuesday, April 10 at 7 p.m.
Dr. Harry Brod, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities
Why would people of white identity become active in anti-racist struggles? How can whites be more effective allies for people of color? This session will explore these important avenues to racial justice. Harry Brod is Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at the University of Northern Iowa. His books include White Men Challenging Racism: 35 Personal Stories and his courses include “Money, Sex and Power: Theories of Race, Class and Gender.” He has extensive experience as a social justice activist and trainer, and is a member of Campus Coalition Builders, UNI’s diversity leadership team.
CME Seven Book Club
Thursday, April 11, 3:30 p.m. at the UNI Center for Multicultural Education
Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness by Touré
SATURDAY FILM SERIES, University Museum
Good Hair
Saturday, April 14 at 1:30 p.m.
Total Run Time 98 minutes
Physical Anthropology's Views on the Biological Aspects of "Race"
Monday, April 16 at 7 p.m.
Dr. Tyler G. O'Brien, Associate Professor of Anthropology
Dr. O'Brien, Associate professor of Physical Anthropology, will discuss the history of the typological race concept and include the field's current understanding of biological differences among populations of the human species.
CME Seven Book Club
Thursday, April 19, 3:30 p.m. at the UNI Center for Multicultural Education
Multicultural American Literature: Comparative Black, Native, Latino/a and Asian American Fictions by A. Robert Lee
SATURDAY FILM SERIES, University Museum
Daughter From Danang
Saturday, April 21 at 1:30 p.m.
Total Run Time 83 minutes |
