Multiracial Identity Week
October 13-21, 2009

Oct 12
MON

Brown Organization of Multiracial and Biracial Student Open Meeting

TWC Formal Lounge, 8:00 pm

BOMBS focuses on creating a space for students to explore their individual identities as people of mixed race through workshops and discussion, as well as providing a space for political activism and awareness through talking with others and sharing experiences. This open meeting will allow student to create a dialog about past experiences and knowledge though a casual discussion.

Oct 13
Tue

Multiracial Identity Week Opening Convocation

MacMillian 117, 7:00pm

This event will officially introduce the week and will include a convocation address, a student reflection address, and student performances. Ralina Landwehr Joseph ‘96 is broadly interested in contemporary representations of race, gender, and sexuality in the United States. She recently completed her book manuscript, Beyond the Binaries: Reading Mixed-Race Blackness in the New Millennium. Beyond the Binaries investigates 1998-2008 era pop culture representations of multiracial African Americans in television, film, the internet, a novel, and a memoir. She is currently working on her second book project, Speaking Back: How Black Women Resist Post-Identity Culture, an examination of African American women’s resistance to “post-identity,” the ostensibly “after” moment of race and gender.

Oct 15
Thurs

Art/Photo Exhibit Opening

TWC Formal Lounge, 7:00pm

The photo exhibit event will be ongoing throughout Multiracial Heritage Week.  The photo exhibit will consist of images of students and their artwork.  The vision for this exhibit is to depict the vast diversity of the multiracial identity and experience.

Oct 17
Sat

Alumni and Student Reception

Maddock Alumni Center, 2:00pm

This event will allow alumni to meet and greet with current students to talk about their experiences post-Brown through a casual conversation. Not only do students appreciate the opportunity to have a dialog with alumni, but also we hope this event will continue to foster a close relationship for all of Brown’s multiracial community.

Oct 18
Sun

Parent’s Weekend Brunch

Third World Center Formal Lounge, 11:00 am

This is has traditionally been a special event for multiracial students to share with their parents, who have played an important role in their child’s development of a multiracial identity.  The brunch offers a casual atmosphere for students and parents from different families to get to know each other and to engage in dialogue about the parent’s own experiences dating interracially and raising multiracial children.

Oct 20
Tues

Interracial Dating in the LGBTQQ Community

Alumnae Hall Crystal Room, 8:00pm

While the interracial dating forum provides interesting dialogue about dating, the conversation tends to be hetero-normative. By having this event, we hope to expand the discussion begun at the interracial dating forum and probe other layers of this contentious issue.

Oct 21
Wed

Interracial Dating Forum

De Ciccio Family Auditorium, 7:00 pm

The forum provides an opportunity for students to discuss how race influences their dating decisions. It has drawn over 300 students in past years and offers an interesting, and sometimes heated debate, about love and race.

Oct 26

Appearance and Identity

Smith-Buanano Hall 201, 7:00 pm
Closing Reception
TWC Formal Lounge, 8:00 pm

Join us for an interactive discussion with Dean Takesue ’88 exploring appearance, passing, privilege and identity within the multiracial experience.