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NEWS & FEATURES:
3/7/06: Lecture - Race, Class & Shame
The Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs at UNC, the Parr Center for Ethics, the Department of African and Afro-American Studies, and The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History will present a public lecture by Dr. Tommie Shelby, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences and African and African American Studies at Harvard University, on Tuesday, March 7, at 7:00 pm in Hyde Hall on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Professor Shelby’s lecture is entitled “Race, Class, and Shame: Du Bois on Black Solidarity” and grows out of his recently-published book We Who Are Dark: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity.
Professor Shelby’s lecture centers on the work of a prominent African-American political philosopher, W. E. B. Du Bois, and addresses the issues of ghetto poverty and selfrespect.
He says that the idea of black power is now inappropriate because of the diversity of the black population. He rejects Du Bois’s solution of race pride in favor of a thin identity that encourages “individual blacks to maintain solidarity with one another regardless of the racial composition of the political organizations in which each
participates.”
Shelby first began to think about black solidarity when he was an undergraduate at a historically black university, Florida A & M. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Pittsburgh and taught at Ohio State before joining the faculty at Harvard University in 2000.
A book signing and reception will follow Professor Shelby’s lecture. To find out more information about this event or other Parr Center events please go to the Center’s website at http://parrcenter.unc.edu.
3/1/05: UNC Eating Disorders Program
Research Study for Children
with Weight Concerns. We are seeking children with weight concerns
and their parent/guardian for a research study
comparing different family-based treatments for childhood
weight control. All treatment will focus on developing
healthy behaviors in children.
If you are the parent or guardian of a child:
-between the ages of 5 and 8
-whose weight you
are concerned about
-who speaks fluent English
Please call our Coordinator Brandy at (919) 966-4410
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