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Director:

Jenifer L. Bratter, Associate Professor of Sociology

Assistant Director:

John Garrison Marks, Department of History

"A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue."
- Cornell West
 
  
  
   
 
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Having the Talk: Teaching Race in the Undergraduate Classroom
All-day symposium on how to tackle issues of race and ethnicity in undergraduate courses
April 6, 2013

Click here for information and videos of sessions from the symposium 


February 8:
Dr. Barbara Foley: "Wrestling with the Left: The Making of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man"
November 16:
Junior Colloquium II: "White Selves 'Trampling' Chinese Selves: Reification and the Crisis of White Professional Masculinity in Sui Sin Far's Short Fiction"
November 9:
Community Conversation (Lecture by the Director): "More Than Race: Thoughts on the Meaning of Black in Black Art"
November 5:
Dr. Verna Keith: "The Nuances of Blackness: Race, Complexion, and Well-Being"
October 26:
Junior Colloquium I: "Anthropology and the State: Defining the Boundaries of Black Identity and Quilombolismo in Multicultural Brazil"
October 5:
Dialogue Partners: Black Wealth/White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality


Welcome to PSERC

The Program for the Study of Ethnicity, Race, and Culture is a campus-wide program of Rice University's Kinder Institute for Urban Research. Our program is dedicated to advancing the intellectual community of scholars whose work examines the relevance of race in all its dimensions. PSERC will accomplish its mission by serving as an intellectual resource to the university, supporting the graduate students who investigate race-related issues, acting as a convener and facilitator of interdisciplinary research collaborations, and enhancing the visibility of scholarly work on race.

Learn more about the faculty and graduate students studying race at Rice University.

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