Category: Lets Go

Who: The IU Progressive Librarian’s Guild hosts a
What: Free screening of the documentary “Race: The Power of an Illusion” —
What is this thing we call ‘race’? Where’d the idea come from? What are
the patterns of human variation? And if race isn’t biological, what is
it? How do our social institutions ‘make’ race?
When: Thursday, February 22nd, 7PM
Where: Wylie Hall, Room 005

We will be showing two parts of this documentary series:

“The Story We Tell” — uncovers the roots of the race concept in North
America, the 19th century science that legitimated it, and how it came
to be held so fiercely in the western imagination. The episode is an
eye-opening tale of how race served to rationalize, even justify,
American social inequalities as “natural.”

“The House We Live In” — asks, If race is not biology, what is it?
This episode uncovers how race resides not in nature but in politics,
economics and culture. It reveals how our social institutions “make”
race by disproportionately channeling resources, power, status and
wealth to white people.

See http://www.pbs.org/race for more information about these films!

“By far the best documentary series on race of the last decade.” —
Troy Duster, former president, American Sociological Association

We will be hosting our first poetry slam of the year at 7pm in the
IMUG. Starbucks has helped us out with a cash prize. This slam is open
to anyone feeling the need to bless the Bloomington hip hop masses with
their creativity. Please come early to register (6:30ish).

We will be hosting our first poetry slam of the year at 7pm in the
IMUG. Starbucks has helped us out with a cash prize. This slam is open
to anyone feeling the need to bless the Bloomington hip hop masses with
their creativity. Please come early to register (6:30ish).

Hip Hop Congress teams up with Union Board for this Black History Month
Speech from famed author and former Editor of the Source. Kitwana has
written several books about race and hip hop, was involved with the
“Bible of Hip Hop” during it’s Golden years, and is currently involved
in his own lecture series.

We are going to be screening the most famous DJ-focused hip hop
documentary and also holding a Q+A/meet-and-greet with one of the
executive directors of the film, John Carluccio. Carluccio is also most
famous for inventing TTM, a way of representing DJ produced scratches
on sheet music. Also, there will be some Congress DJs in full effect to
answer any questions or give demonstrations before and after the event.

Link to IUHHC MySpace

Approximately a lot of sweet party jams. Free dance lessons from everybody in the room. Dress code: look completely rad. Fashionably late? B.Y.O. drink specials. Exclusive VIP Make-Out Room in your imagination.