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April 1, 2003 == MEDIA ADVISORY
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Calvin College will join with several community partners to present a talk on
Tuesday, April 15 by Dr. Peggy McIntosh, an expert on "white privilege."
She will speak from 3:30 to 5 pm in the Prince Conference Center on Calvin's
campus. Her topic is "Coming to Recognize Privilege Systems: Beyond Guilt,
Shame and Blame."
Joining forces for the event are the Calvin office of multicultural student
development, the Christian Reformed World Relief Committee, the Grace Rapids
Area Center for Ecumenism, the Woodrick Institute at Aquinas and the
Intercollegiate Multicultural Affairs network, a local alliance of colleges and
universities.
In McIntosh the partners have found a powerful speaker says Calvin's Jacque
Rhodes, assistant dean of multicultural student development.
"Any one who has ever been through a healing racism institute has done her
famous 'unpacking the invisible knapsack' exercise," says Rhodes. "Dr.
McIntosh is an important voice in our national conversations about race. We
are very eager to hear her speak at Calvin."
McIntosh is associate director of the Wellesley College Center for Research on
Women and she directs the Gender, Race, and Inclusive Education Project, which
provides workshops on diversifying workplaces, curricula and teaching methods.
She consults widely throughout the country and the world on creating
gender-fair and multicultural curricula. McIntosh authored "White Privilege:
Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack" which has been called instrumental in putting
the concept of privilege into discussions of gender, race and sexuality.
Her background is in education and she has taught English, American Studies
and Women's Studies at Harvard and Wellesley, among others. She also is
co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Women's Institute and has been consulting
editor to Sage: A Scholarly Journal on Black Women.
For more on McIntosh, including a picture, see
http://www.wcwonline.org/keypeople/mcintosh.html
Contact Jacque Rhodes at 616-526-6081
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