Race Talk (/rās/-/tôk/): Re (-) Signing the Racial Contact

How, in the face of race and race history, might we 'make gentle the life of the world?'  Race continues to be "the problem of the color line" shaped by a history of  racial supremacy, superiority and privilege that continues to divide peoples across the planet.  Race Talk (/rās/-/tôk/) re-draws that line along the boundaries of human conscience, choice, and character by presenting  insights and perspective that challenge some of our most deeply held assumptions and beliefs about human difference and identity and how they hasveshaped the content of our collective consciousness and character.

Race Talk is a monthly program of conversations about race, racism, and the problems and possibilities of reconciliation through rhetorical coherence.  Featuring live and recorded interviews with noted scholars, activists and educators the series offers a comprehensive account of theories and philosophies that have shaped and defined the rhetoric of racism.  We explore the roots of rhetoric and racism and the strange fruits they produce in law, politics, education and spirituality and examine the problems and possibilities of racial reconciliation through diverse disciplinary lenses.   Race Talk delves deeply into the character of our communication, how it limits and defines our understanding of racial difference and identity, and its potential for cultivating the wisdom and energy needed to speak with courage, compassion and coherence about the problem of the twentieth century as we enter the twenty first.

"I do not believe there is a way in which this deeply entrenched evil can be quickly healed.  But until that goal is reached there is no greater satisfaction for a just and well-meaning person than the knowledge that he has devoted his best energies to the service of a good cause."*