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Alex Linder
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Default The Corruption of Academic Anthropology: Lying That Race Does Not Exist

[Ford Foundation, a source of more evil than Satan, funds a traveling ministrel show headed by a black parakeet at Riverside who tweets that race does not exist, it's all in your head.]

Exhibit Overview
The exhibition RACE: Are we so different? brings together the everyday experience of living with race, its history as an idea, the role of science in that history, and the findings of contemporary science that are challenging its foundations.

Interactive exhibit components, historical artifacts, iconic objects, compelling photographs, multimedia presentations, and attractive graphic displays offer visitors to RACE an eye-opening look at its important subject matter.

Developed by the American Anthropological Association in collaboration with the Science Museum of Minnesota, RACE is the first nationally traveling exhibition to tell the stories of race from the biological, cultural, and historical points of view. Combining these perspectives offers an unprecedented look at race and racism in the United States.


ABOUT THE PROJECT
Advisory Board

CHAIR



Yolanda Moses, Ph.D. Chair, Understanding Race and Human Variation
Vice Provost for Diversity and Conflict Resolution and Professor of Anthropology, University of California – Riverside, Riverside, CA

http://www.understandingrace.org/home.html

Ford Foundation Awards $450,000 to RACE Project

Yolanda Moses co-chairs advisory board that will develop a smaller version of the original traveling museum exhibit.

(March 25, 2008)

RIVERSIDE, Calif. - The Ford Foundation has awarded a $450,000 grant to the American Anthropological Association’s “RACE: Are We So Different?” project, a traveling museum exhibit for which anthropology professor Yolanda Moses is a curator.

The new grant will fund the development of a smaller version of the exhibit, intended for display in smaller venues, and a companion book. The Ford Foundation previously contributed $1 million to help create the $4 million exhibit.

“RACE: Are We So Different?” also will receive the American Association of Museums 2008 Excellence in Exhibition award at the association’s annual conference in Denver in April.

The new Ford Foundation grant will enable development of an exhibit which can circulate to smaller museum spaces, civic buildings and universities.

Moses, who was president of the American Anthropological Association when discussions about the RACE project began in the late 1990s, will co-chair the smaller exhibit’s advisory group and serve as co-editor of the companion book.

“America is ready to have a substantive conversation about race, as witnessed by the dialog around Barack Obama’s recent speech on race,” said Moses, who also is associate vice chancellor for diversity and excellence and vice provost, conflict resolution. “This project will provide educational information on this most important topic to more Americans than ever.”

The original RACE project, a 5,000-square-foot exhibit, opened at the Science Museum of Minnesota in January 2007. Since then, more than one million people have explored the exhibit and related Web site. The interactive exhibit, which is booked at museums around the country through 2012, addresses race and racism from the viewpoints of science, history and lived experience.

Moses also has been named to the editorial board of the new journal Sustainability: The Journal of Record, which aims to be the conduit for universities, business communities, foundations, government agencies and environmental leaders to share information and foster collaboration.

http://www.newsroom.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=1799

Last edited by Alex Linder; March 26th, 2008 at 04:47 AM.