Race and Pedagogy Initiative

The Race and Pedagogy Initiative is a collaboration of the University of Puget Sound and the South Sound community, which educates students and teachers at all levels to think critically about race and to act to eliminate racism. The attention of the Initiative to racial diversity is inextricably linked with, and yet not subverted to, other categories of difference and disparity.

Emerging through eight years of work under the rubric of the Race and Pedagogy Program, the Initiative is rooted in organized, ongoing campus discussions through regular brown bag lunch forums and special events on Race and Pedagogy since 2002. These Race and Pedagogy gatherings concluded that there was an imperative to inculcate such conversations into our institutional practices and to undertake a focused program of broad engagement, namely, the entire Puget Sound community, multiple community constituencies, and teachers and scholars from the Northwest and across the United States.

Mark your calendar for the 2010 National Race and Pedagogy Conference at University of Puget Sound, October 28-30, 2010