Calendar

Friday, September 20

Hours: 7:30AM - 7PM

  • Exhibit: Poets and Publishers of the Black Arts Movement
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    ZSR Library, Special Collections & Archives Research Room (Room 625)
    The 1960s and 70s saw a flowering of African-American poetry unprecedented in American literary history. The poets of the Black Arts Movement fused artistic experimentation with political engagement, giving voice to the complexities of the Black experience in the years immediately following the civil rights movement. This exhibit draws on ZSR Special Collections’ extensive holdings to highlight the achievements of both the poets and the people who published them during these pivotal decades in American history.
  • Spanish So White: Conversations on the Inconvenient Racism of a “Foreign” Language Education
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    ZSR Library, Library Auditorium (Room 404)
    A Book Talk about Spanish So White by Adam Schwartz, Ph.D.

    Summary: Explicit discussions of race and racial identity have traditionally been omitted from Spanish language education in the US – especially in curricula designed for imagined ‘native’ speakers of English. Consequences of this de-racialization of Spanish language learning include the perpetuation of institutional racisms and missed opportunities to build productive conversations about the ways race and power are enacted through language. Spanish So White supports the development of language education that centers a racially dynamic Spanish-speaking world and challenges interpersonal and institutional forms of racism.Explicit discussions of race and racial identity have traditionally been omitted from Spanish language education in the US – especially in curricula designed for imagined ‘native’ speakers of English. Consequences of this de-racialization of Spanish language learning include the perpetuation of institutional racisms and missed opportunities to build productive conversations about the ways race and power are enacted through language. Spanish So White supports the development of language education that centers a racially dynamic Spanish-speaking world and challenges interpersonal and institutional forms of racism.

    Bio: Dr. Schwartz (Ph.D., University of Arizona) is an associate professor in the School of Language, Culture & Society at Oregon State University. A critical applied linguist, he specializes in Spanish language education in the U.S., and constructions of culture, borders, foreignness, race and privilege in and outside classrooms.

    Sponsored by: WFU Departments of Spanish, Linguistics, Education, Anthropology, Latin American and Latino Studies, American Ethnic Studies, the Office for Diversity and Inclusion, and the Center for Literacy Education.