February 02, 2007
Collegiate Film Series II: UM-St. Louis
UMSL Student Life to sponsor film series
'Race: The Power of an Illusion' will include scholar discussions
The Office of Student Life at the University of Missouri-St. Louis is sponsoring a film series titled "Race: The Power of an Illusion." The series will address the psychological idea of race, including how it affects life chances and opportunities. Each screening in the three-part weekly series will feature a one-hour film followed by a discussion lead by Teresa Guess, associate professor of sociology at UMSL.
The series is free and open to the public, and co-sponsored by the Institute for Women's and Gender Studies at UMSL. Call (314) 516-5270 or e-mail oayes@umsl.edu for more information. The schedule is as follows:
"Episode 1 - The Difference Between Us"
4 p.m. Feb. 7 in the Student Government Association Chambers at the Millenniums Student Center at UMSL. The film will examine the contemporary science, including genetics, that challenges our common sense assumptions that human begins can be bundled into fundamentally different groups according to their physical traits.
"Episode 2 - The Story We Tell"
4 p.m. Feb. 14 in the Student Government Association Chambers at the Millenniums Student Center at UMSL. The film will uncover the roots of the race concept in North America , the 19th century science that legitimated it and how it came to beheld so fiercely in the Western imagination.
"Episode 3 - The House We Live In"
4 p.m. Feb. 21 in the Student Government Association Chambers at the Millenniums Student Center at UMSL. The film will reveal how race resides not in nature, but in politics, economics and culture. It will show how our social institutions "make" race by disproportionately channeling resources, power, status and wealth to white people.