A Latinx Heritage Month Event Shattering the Silences: Latinx Heritage Month Immigration Panel Discussion September 19 6:00-8:00 p.m. Davis-Harrington Welcome Center Join the Missouri State University campus and Springfield community for a facilitated panel discussion about the current trends of immigration and its impacts on global and domestic landscapes. The panel … [Read more...] about Shattering the Silences: Latinx Heritage Month Immigration Panel
The Division for Diversity and Inclusion's Shattering the Silences Series is a year-round effort to help educate and give a credence and voice to important topics for the campus and to departments and groups needing a forum to discuss national, regional and local matters. Latinx Heritage Month Immigration Panel Discussion Join the Missouri State University campus and … [Read more...] about 2017 Shattering the Silences Series
Presentation by Dr. David Roediger, Foundation Distinguished Professor of American Studies and History at Kansas University. He is the author of Seizing Freedom: Slave Emancipation and Liberty for All. New York: Verso, 2014; and co-author of The Production of Difference: Race and the Management of Labor in U.S. History, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, … [Read more...] about Shattering the Silences: Seizing Freedom
Shattering the Silences: Trauma and Healing in the Diaspora An Afrocentric look at social trauma and healing through a “house concert” musical presentation with streaming video of how communities can heal from past injustices and how current injustices may be corrected through this healing process. The Division for Diversity & Inclusion and Faculty Center for Teaching … [Read more...] about Shattering the Silences: Trauma and Healing in the Diaspora
A Native American Heritage Month event. According to the National Parks Service (2016), “The main (northern) land route of the Trail of Tears passes directly through the Springfield, Missouri area, where Missouri State University is located.” Join us to learn about the Cherokee people’s forced removal from their homelands. Their history is one of many harrowing stories of … [Read more...] about Shattering the Silences Series: Trail of Tears: Its History and Connections Today