How Do We Begin: A Historical Reckoning with Anti-Black Racism at U-M

LSA-ADVANCE Workshops for Faculty 2023-24

This workshop is open to all U-M Faculty.

This is a virtual workshop. A Zoom link will be shared with registrants via a Google Calendar invitation closer to the event date. If you have any questions, please contact advanceprogram@umich.edu.

Written by guest playwright and U-M alumnx Jordan Harris, this short series of plays illuminates U-M’s complicated relationship to elitism and racial inequity. Using Matthew Johnson’s book Undermining Racial Justice (a historical analysis of the admissions processes at U-M) as an entry point, the play examines how American colleges and universities–and U-M specifically–have perpetuated anti-Blackness while simultaneously benefiting from their association with inclusive values. Through a series of facilitated discussion and activities, participants will wrestle with a central question: with an understanding of our inequitable past and present, how will we imagine and pursue a racially just future?

Presenters: CRLT Players

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