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Race and Difference Initiative
Academic scholarship and activist understanding
concerning race and racism have an important history and presence
in many American Colleges and Universities. But seldom have
these contributions been self-consciously articulated with
the understanding of other forms of stigmatizing difference,
including sex, gender, ethnicity, and national and cultural
discrimination. In corresponding fashion, race and difference
have often been considered through the lens of one or another
disciplinary or theoretical perspective – historical,
sociological, literary, economic, or biological – but
less frequently across these fields and points of view.
The Race and Difference Initiative (RDI)
draws upon Emory’s special academic strengths, the strong
relationship between its various schools, and the university’s
distinctive place in Atlanta to bridge if not transcend divisions
of understanding: (1) between race and other forms of stigmatizing
difference; (2) between different disciplinary forms of knowledge;
and (3) between scholarly and critically applied understandings
of race and stigma.
EVENTS
Call for Proposals RDI Graduate Student Small Grant Program
Call for Proposals RDI Faculty Seed Grant Program
Friday, February, 5, 2010: Jonathan Metzl and Mab Segrest Lecture, "Race and Stigma in the Construction of Mental Illness"
Thursday, February 4, 2010: Jonathan Metzl Lecture, "The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease"
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