Mission Statement
To continue our conversations on this curricular enhancement with various scholarly and social groups within and outside the department. Based on these conversations, we will compile a library of resources on the history and teaching of race and ethnicity, as well as race theory and anti-racism work. These resources will be available to all instructors for use in shaping their syllabi.
Duke Alumnus on Challenges of Anti-Racism at Duke
Events of Interest
This is a bulletin board to help circulate campus-wide events on the study and teaching of race.
Wednesday Mar 24 | 5:00 - 6:30 PM
Anti-Asian Violence: Historical Legacies
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Webcast
Nayoung Aimee Kwon; Eileen Chow; Esther Kim Lee; Susan Thananopavarn
SPONSOR(S): Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement, Office for Institutional Equity (OIE), Provost's Office, and Trinity College
This panel invites the Duke community to come together in response to the startling increase of violence against people of Asian descent, including the mass shootings in Atlanta on March 16 that killed eight people, including six women of Asian descent. Featuring four scholars, the panel aims to provide a historical context to the recent spate of anti-Asian violence and to increase our collective awareness of and knowledge about issues that afflict Asian Americans.
This event is closed to the public. Only current faculty, staff, and students may register.
Tuesday Mar 16 from 3-4p.m
Please join the History Department Faculty-Student Task Force on the Study and Teaching of Race on Tuesday Mar 16 from 3-4p.m. where our own Travis Knoll will show and discuss his documentary "The Book Revolution.":
This documentary traces the incredible campaign of Catholic-inspired Black movement activists in Rio de Janeiro's urban periphery to expand education access to Brazil's political minorities. This campaign changed Brazilian society's discussion of race in the process. Written and produced by one of Brazil's most prominent Black journalists and edited by one of Rio's leading community rappers, the film covers a wide range of issues from pre-college prep courses, to Black aesthetics and self-esteem, to police violence. At its core, the film argues for the revolutionary potential of social mobility when combined with grassroots political consciousness-raising and wrestles with the difficulties of sustained activism in the face of institutional racism and an increasingly reactionary political environment in Brazil.
Zoom link
Join URL: https://duke.zoom.us/j/92422213454?pwd=c2hGRnA2c0xjME56eStUcGsxajR0UT09
Monday, March 15, 2021| 6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
Keynote | Our Land: The Histories that Black and Indigenous Americans Share
Dr. Malinda Maynor Lowery (she/her/hers), Director of the Center for the Study of the American South and Professor of History, UNC-Chapel Hill
Moderated by: Vivette Jeffries-Logan, Founder & Principal of Biwa Consulting
If we told American history truthfully, our story would include Black and Indigenous Americans who have already created the world we want to live in, a world of resilience, creativity, self-governance and shared purpose. In this keynote, Dr. Malinda Maynor Lowery will propose that we add these founding principles to our story and seeks to reveal a few of the episodes that illustrate them.
To pre-register, go to:
https://sites.duke.edu/justspace/conference/
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Past Events
Remembering a 1979 Moral Moment: Medical Activists, Racial Justice, and Confronting the KKK
- Endowed Lectureships

Register here for Zoom webinar
On November 3, 1979, members of the Ku Klux Klan and American Nazi Party drove into an African-American neighborhood in Greensboro, North Carolina to disrupt an anti-klan march planned by the Communist Workers Party. The KKK and Nazis opened fire on the demonstrators, killing five labor and civil rights activists, three of whom - Dr. Mike Nathan, Dr. Jim Waller, and Cesar Cauce - had ties to Duke University. Sandy Smith and Bill Sampson were also killed on that day. Two all-white juries subsequently found the shooters not guilty of state and federal criminal charges. Later in a civil suit for wrongful death, the KKK, Nazis, and City of Greensboro were found liable.
Following a segment from a recent film about what became known as the 1979 Greensboro Massacre, survivors will share why this story is worth remembering, and why it remains relevant to health and racial justice activism today.
Panelists include:
Dr. Marty Nathan, Physician, widow of Mike Nathan, and Duke University Medical School graduate
Dr. Paul Bermanzohn, Psychiatrist, wounded survivor of the Massacre, and Duke University Medical School graduate
Joyce Johnson, Co-Executive Director of the Beloved Community Center of Greensboro, Massacre survivor and Duke University graduate
The panel will be facilitated by Rosalyn Pelles, Massacre survivor and strategic advisor to the Poor People's Campaign.
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