The WSU Common Reading Program is pleased to accommodate students’ learning by offering online options to experience programming related to Born a Crime, including lectures, interviews, and documentaries, during spring semester 2021.
Not familiar with online learning tools? WSU Information Systems has prepared basic information to help and it’s available at its.wsu.edu/cougs-online-toolkit.
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April 2021
Author Q&A with Keah Brown, author of The Pretty One
Author Keah Brown will be joining the final discussion of her book, The Pretty One, a collection of essays exploring what it means to be black and disabled in a mostly able-bodied white America. This month’s discussion will feature chapters 10-12, but attendees do not need to have read the book to participate as a summary will be included. The Access Center is also offering WSU student an opportunity to receive a free digital copy of The Pretty One based…
Find out more »(Rescheduled) White Like Me: Race, Racism, and White Privilege in America Featuring Tim Wise (2013, 66 min), with panel discussion to follow
Based on the work of acclaimed anti-racist educator and author Tim Wise, this documentary explores race and racism in the US 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…
Find out more »Virtual Student Q&A with Dr. Susan Neiman (Einstein Forum, Germany)
This session invites students and faculty involved is spring programming on memorialization and memory to engage directly with Dr. Neiman, the Director of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam, Germany. Hosted by the Center for the Arts and Humanities in collaboration with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. To register for this event, visit the USHMM website.
Find out more »Jamie Margolin (Earth Day Keynote Speaker)
Jamie Margolin is a 19-year-old environmental activist, organizer, author, director, and screenwriter. She will speak about the human aspects of climate change, including mental health, environmental racism, and activism. Hosted by the ASWSU Environmental Sustainability Alliance in celebration of Earth Day.
Find out more »Melissa Parkhurst (Music) on “Song Gives Birth to Struggle: Music and the Anti-Apartheid Movement in South Africa”
Trevor Noah grew up in a South Africa that was, and continues to be, profoundly shaped by the legacy of apartheid. Join us to explore how music in South Africa sheds light on indigenous cultures and the processes of colonialism & post-colonialism. We will listen to: marabi (early South African jazz), isicathamiya (a cappella music, performed by migrant workers living in urban hostiles), and numerous genres that emerged during the anti-apartheid struggle, 1948-1994. We’ll take a look at how government-imposed…
Find out more »Robin Fifita (Tongan Visual Artist and Muralist)
Robin Fifita embraces and celebrates her unique cultural backgrounds: Tongan, Irish, and German. Her work is informed by the understanding and challenges that come from the convergence of contrasting elements, people, places, ideas, and expressions. Her work aims to explore the various points of intersection that cut across boundaries such as culture, class, language, space, and time. She currently works at Oregon State University’s School of Public Policy. Hosted by the Center for Intercultural Learning and Affirmation (WSU Vancouver).
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