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The Conversation Project offers Oregon nonprofits free programs that engage community members in thoughtful, challenging conversations about ideas critical to our daily lives and our state's future. Conversations are facilitated by some of Oregon's most respected humanities scholars.
Although 2010 Census data show Oregon’s population becoming more racially diverse, the state remains one of the whitest in the nation. Although many Oregonians value racial diversity and the dimension and depth it adds to our lives, we remain largely isolated from one another and have yet to fulfill the vision of a racially integrated society. Willamette University professor Emily Drew will lead participants in a conversation about the challenges to creating racially diverse, inclusive communities, despite the accomplishments since the civil rights era. What does the racial integration of place require of us, and how might we prepare to create and meet this opportunity?
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Program available through October 2013
Emily M. Drew is an associate professor of ethnic studies at Willamette University, where she teaches courses on racism, race and ethnicity, urban sociology, mass media, and social change. Her primary areas of research involve understanding how race and racism operate in social institutions, particularly education, media and urban planning. She earned her doctorate from Loyola University Chicago, and has published articles in Critical Studies in Media Communication, Television & New Media, and Tourism & Cultural Change. Drew’s work is driven by a long-term commitment to social justice struggles. She has been actively engaged in anti-racism organizing and activism for almost twenty years, and serves as a cotrainer of Understanding Institutional Racism workshops for Crossroads Anti-Racism Organizing and Training. She works as a strategic planner with public school districts, universities, and community-based organizations across the country to develop and implement long-term commitments to anti-racist, multicultural diversity.
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