IUPUI White Racial Literacy Speaker Series
Wednesday, October 30, 2019

The WRLP will provide an intensive, guided process for IUPUI leaders, faculty, students, and staff, particularly those who identify as White to investigate their own positionalities as White people, while also understanding the structural nature of whiteness as it exists in longstanding practices, archaic policies and traditions that oppress racially minoritized populations. As IUPUI embarks on its 50th Anniversary, this initiative will communicate who we are and who we wish to become by investing in faculty and staff (as well as students), especially those who have power to facilitate racial equity on our campus.

Featured Speaker:  Dr. Joe Feagin

Joe Feagin, Ella C. McFadden Professor and Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University, does major research on systemic racism, sexism, and classism issues. He has published 70 scholarly books and hundreds of scholarly articles in these research areas. Among his books are Systemic Racism (Routledge 2006); Two-Faced Racism (Routledge 2007, with L. Picca); The White Racial Frame (Routledge 2013); White Party, White Government (Routledge 2012); Latinos Facing Racism (Paradigm 2014, with J. Cobas); The Myth of the Model Minority (Paradigm 2015, with R. Chou); How Blacks Built America (Routledge, 2016); Elite White Men Ruling (Routledge 2017, with K. Ducey); and Racist America: Roots, Current Realities, and Future Reparations (4th edn, 2018). His book Ghetto Revolts: The Politics of Violence in American Cities (Macmillan 1973) was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. He has served as Scholar-in-Residence at the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and is the recipient of the American Association for Affirmative Action’s Fletcher Lifetime Achievement Award, the American Sociological Association’s W. E. B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award, and the American Sociological Association’s Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award. He was the 1999-2000 president of the American Sociological Association.