RACC 2012 Lecture and Discussion Agenda

Department of Social Sciences
RACC 2012
Study and Discussion Guide
Reading Across the Campus and Community (RACC) is a program developed by the Department of Social Sciences since 2003 to encourage students, faculty and the community to read, discuss and share ideas on issues, events and developments as documented by writers and scholars, and their implications to society. Each academic session, the faculty chose a book of interest and curiosity to read. The objectives of RACC are as follows:
 To encourage reading among students, faculty and the community
 To develop reading and comprehension skills
 To prepare student to meet some of the identified standards in all areas
 To develop vocabulary necessary for writing and communication
 To provide a platform for exchange of ideas and academic discourses

Selected Reading: At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape and Resistance --- a New History of the Civil Rights Movement form Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power by Danielle McGuire

Student Learning Outcomes for RACC 2012
1. Understanding how race, class and gender impact the civil rights movement.
2. Understanding how African-American women were victims or racial sexual violence.
3. Understand how the struggles of African-American women helped fuel and sustain the civil rights movement.
4. Understand how selected court cases helped transform the legal status African-Americans.
5. Learn how to navigate in the Second Life Digital environment: create an Avatar and successfully navigate the RACC 2012 Second Life museum.

Lecture and Discussion Format
The importance of this section is to explore and discuss issues and developments articulated in the chapters in greater detail with relevance and application to contemporary issues and debates. While providing leadership, students will be actively involved in the discussions, including taking and answering questions.

Online Discussion Blog Address: http://racc2012.blogspot.com
Second Life Display: Contact Department of Social Sciences
(256) 372-4285 or (256) 372-5330

RACC KICKOFF
January 24: 12:00 noon
• “Slut Walk” – March from Foster Dorm to the LRC
• Faculty Lecture/Overview of RACC Program and Book
• Discussion of Chapter One by Mr. Douglas Turner

February 9th: - 12:30 – 2:00 p.m. - LRC
• Faculty Panel – Discussion of Chapters 2 and 3 by Dr. Edward Bond

February 23rd: - 12:30 p.m. - Drake Hall Lecture Room
• Viewing of Film: “The Scottsboro Boys”

March 22nd - 12:30 p.m. - LRC
• Presentation on Court Cases by Attorneys Will Culver, Mark Debro and
Angela Redmond Debro

April 3rd: - 12:30 p.m. - LRC
• Discussion on Chapter 5 and 6 – Social Work Club

April 10th – 12:30 p.m. - Drake Hall Lecture Room
• Viewing of Film: “Eyes on the Prize: Bridge to Freedom”

April 12th – 12:30 p.m. - LRC
• Lecture – Chapter 7 and 8 - Political Overtones/Civil Rights Connection

April 24th - 12:30 noon – 2:00 p.m. – Elmore Gym
• Author’s Lecture – Author/Professor Danielle L. McGuire