Established in 1999, the Center for the Study of Culture, Race, and Ethnicity seeks to prepare students, through both courses and extracurricular activities, for a world that increasingly demands interactions between many different cultural, racial, and ethnic groups. The programs, which are designed to explore underrepresented and misrepresented groups of society, allow students to explore their own identities in relation to the identities of other individuals with different backgrounds. The Center offers minors in African Diaspora and Latino/a Studies.
The Center for Race, Culture, and Ethnicity kicked off its 2007-2008 discussion series, “The Prison Machine: Race, Torture, and the State,” on Tuesday, September 18th in Clark Lounge with its first lecture titled “Warfare in the America Homeland: Policing and Prison in a Penal Democracy.” Visiting speaker Dr. Joy James, professor of political science at Williams College, led the discussion alongside Ithaca College assistant professor of African Diaspora studies, Sean Eversley-Bradwell.
James and Eversley-Bradwell engaged the audience of faculty and students in a discussion that explored the United States’ high rate of incarceration (the highest in the world) in comparison to the ideals of democracy and freedom. The lecture also addressed the contradiction between the love of humanity this country claims to exercise and the atrocities that take place in prisons everyday.
The discussion series will host two more presentations this fall and another four in the spring of 2008. The Center for Race, Culture, and Ethnicity designed the program to examine the high level of incarceration in the United States, particularly with respect to its racial components.
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