CLHUMHI010 - Facing Race: Racism, Resistance and Reckoning in the United States (EXPANDED)

This foundational course explores the long, painful history of race and anti-black racism in the United States and the powerful movements to resist racial oppression from the Civil War, Emancipation and Reconstruction through the Civil Rights movement and today’s Black Lives Matter movement. Rice University faculty and other leading scholars share historical and contemporary insights on our country’s fraught relationship with race and anti-black racism. We also examine present day efforts to reckon with the legacy of slavery and structural inequity. The series culminates with an invitation to imagine and shape new futures.

Course Details

This course is taught by Rice faculty and community experts.

Online: Synchronous
This course will be delivered in a synchronous format online. Registered participants will receive login instructions to the course page, which will provide access to the virtual classroom link and other resources.

LECTURES INCLUDE:

Sept. 22. The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. Daniel B. Domingues da Silva, Ph.D., associate professor of history, Rice University
Sept. 29. American Slavery. James Sidbury, Ph.D., professor of history and Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor of Humanities, Rice University
Oct. 6. The Civil War and Emancipation. Fay Yarbrough, Ph.D., associate professor of history, Rice University
Oct. 13. Reconstruction. Fay Yarbrough, Ph.D.
Oct. 20. Jim Crow, Gender and the Roots of the Civil Rights Movement. David Ponton, Ph.D., assistant professor, School of Interdisciplinary and Global Studies, University of South Florida
Oct. 27. Reckoning and Reparations. Caleb McDaniel, Ph.D., chair, history department; Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of Humanities; professor of history, Rice University
Nov. 3. Combatting Structural Racism through Educational Equity. Tori Thomas, Ph.D., research analyst, Houston Education Research Consortium, Rice University
Nov. 10. Religion and the Black Lives Matter Movement. Jessica Davenport, Ph.D., Consortium for Faculty Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Religion, Colgate University and Anthony Pinn, Ph.D., Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies, Rice University
Nov. 17. Speculative Black Futures. Nicole A. Waligora-Davis, Ph.D., associate professor of English, Rice University

Center for African and African American Studies, Rice University; Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning, Rice University; Houston Education Research Consortium; Office of the Vice Provost for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Rice University; Task Force on Slavery, Segregation and Racial Injustice, Rice University

This is an expanded version of the Facing Race course offered in spring 2021.
Students who completed the full Facing Race course in spring 2021 are eligible to register for individual lectures in the fall 2021 series at a prorated price. Contact cpcoord@rice.edu for details. This offer is only available to participants in the spring 2021 Facing Race series.
Certificate of completion available upon request.

Facing Race participants are encouraged to attend the following free webinars in our OpenRICE series, which are also part of the Facing Race initiative:
Aug. 27, 12-1 pm. The Battle for Voting Rights in Texas and the United States. Matthew Hayes, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Political Science, Rice University
Dec. 10, 12-1 pm. Addressing Racism Matters for Excellence: A Conversation with Three Rice University DEI Leaders. JP Abercrumbie, Associate Athletic Director for SOAR/Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer, Rice Athletics; Richard Anthony Baker, Ph.D., Executive Director for Institutional Equity and EEO, University Title IX Coordinator; Alexander X. Byrd, Ph.D., Vice Provost for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Associate Professor of History