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Concept Of Race Questioned In Documentary, Discussion At Dowling College
A provocative new documentary that questions the existence of different races within the human species will be viewed and discussed on March 9 in the Hunt Room at Dowling College's Rudolph Campus in Oakdale from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Attendees will view "The House We Live In", the final episode of California Newsreel's three-part documentary, "Race - The Power of An Illusion", prior to a discussion led by Timothea Howard, National Outreach Coordinator for the film. The event is part of Dowling's year-long celebration of African-American culture and is free and open to the public.
The division of the world's people into distinct groups - "red," "black," "white" or "yellow" - has become so deeply imbedded in our psyche, so widely accepted, many would promptly dismiss as crazy any suggestion of its falsity. Yet, that's exactly what this provocative, new three-hour series by California Newsreel claims. "Race - The Power of An Illusion" questions the very idea of race as biology, suggesting that a belief in race is no more sound than believing that the sun revolves around the earth.
Leading the discussion will be Timothea Howard, a community, labor and cultural organizer in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of Washington, D.C. From 1998-2000, Howard served as the Senior Organizer for the National Organizers Alliance. From 1994-96, was a union organizer for the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees Council 31, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, and the America Federation of Teachers.
Howard served as the Lead Organizer for the Columbia Heights Shaw Family Support Collaborative and the Lead Organizing Trainer for DCVOICE, a public schools reform organization. As a cultural worker, she is a ten-year member of the Sophie's Parlor Feminist Radio Collective and co-hosts a weekly women's music show for WPFW Pacifica.
Howard is a Fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation's Next Generation Program, and is a founding member and Co-Chair of the Youth Justice Funding Collaborative, which joins philanthropists and grassroots leaders dedicated to reform of the juvenile justice system.
About Dowling College
Dowling College is an independent, coeducational college that serves more than 6,500 students at
its historic Rudolph Campus on the banks of the Connetquot River in Oakdale, NY, and the 105-acre
Brookhaven Campus in eastern Long Island and a business center located near the Nassau-Suffolk
border in Melville. Dowling offers Bachelor′s, Master′s, and Doctoral degrees in several
disciplines through its four schools: Arts and Sciences, Aviation, Business, and Education.
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