Speaker Event – “Maybe We Shouldn’t Talk About Diversity Anymore” on 11/13
by Donna Lanclos, Ph.D, Associate Professor for Anthropological Research at Atkins Library at UNC Charlotte November 13th 2019 at noon URI Library’s “Galanti Lounge” (3rd floor) 15 Lippitt Road, Kingston, RI Parking & Directions Please PRE-REGISTER for parking: https://web.uri.edu/visit/parking-information/ The Library is a 10 minute walk from the Welcome Center. https://web.uri.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/904/URI-KingstonCampusMap-Web-FINAL.pdf Speaker Bio Donna Lanclos is […]
by Donna Lanclos, Ph.D,
Associate Professor for Anthropological Research at Atkins Library at UNC Charlotte
November 13th 2019 at noon
URI Library’s “Galanti Lounge” (3rd floor)
15 Lippitt Road, Kingston, RI
Parking & Directions
- Please PRE-REGISTER for parking: https://web.uri.edu/visit/parking-information/
- The Library is a 10 minute walk from the Welcome Center.
https://web.uri.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/904/URI-KingstonCampusMap-Web-FINAL.pdf
Speaker Bio
Donna Lanclos is an anthropologist and consultant in higher education and libraries,
and is, as a white woman, the beneficiary the structural bias in favor of whiteness in
libraries, and in academia generally. She wants in this talk to confront the harms done in talking euphemistically about “diversity” when what we should be talking about , professionally and as educators, is about race, and social justice. She blogs about her work at www.donnalanclos.com.
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