Apr 12: Showing of film, White Like Me
White Like Me
Join us for a simulcast and discussion of this groundbreaking documentary!
Saturday, April 12, 2014
11:00 – 2:00PM (Registration at 10:30)
IU South Bend 1700 W Mishawaka Ave
Education & Arts Bldg. Lecture Hall Room 1011
More Information call (574) 514-9327
Register Online: http://698filmreview.eventbrite.com
Broadcast in four cities across Indiana (Ft. Wayne, Muncie, Indianapolis, & South Bend) the event is organized by graduate students from Ball State Teachers College and sponsored locally by IUSB, St Mary's College, and the Human Rights Commission. Experience this immersive learning project based on the It Is Well With My Soul curriculum to increase community awareness of issues of race, racism, and privilege in America.
More about the movie…
Based on the work of acclaimed anti-racist educator and author Tim Wise, White Like Me, explores race and racism in the U.S. through the lens of whiteness and white privilege. In a stunning reassessment of the American ideal of meritocracy and claims that we've entered a post-racial society, Wise offers a fascinating look back at the race-based white entitlement programs that built the American middle class, and argues that our failure as a society to come to terms with this legacy of white privilege continues to perpetuate racial inequality and race-driven political resentments today.