Here are the many ways Race, Culture, and Power is involved in the UNH community:

ESSAY CONTEST!!!!
2007-2008 Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Essay Contest
(sponsored by African American Studies, American Studies, Race, Culture, and Power, the Center for the Humanities, and the Presidential Commission on the Status of People of Color)

Essay Question: What would make you start a revolution?

(additional questions and themes to keep in mind as you write your essay:what is a revolution? how would you start a revolution? Is there anything essential to a revolution?)

The University of New Hampshire celebrates the life, legacy, and  work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. through a week-long series of events.  Throughout the week of  January 24,  2008 members of the UNH community and the community at large will be able to participate in events such as an art exhibit on the refugee experience in New Hampshire, a spiritual celebration, a candlelight vigil, and a Commemorative Address.  This year’s Commemorative Address will be given by Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, Professor of Theology, English, and African American Studies at Georgetown University.

The goal of the 2008 MLK Celebration is to explore and discuss the relationship among race, culture, and democracy at the state, national, and global levels.  In this spirit, we’ve created an opportunity to allow the students at the University of New Hampshire to voice to give voice to their own experiences with race, culture, and democracy.   

The New Hampshire state Constitution endows its citizens with a Right of Revolution, saying in Part 1, Article 10,
“Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the whole community, and not for the private interest or emolument of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new government. The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.
June 2, 1784
Dr. Dyson’s keynote address will focus on the radicalism of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on the King you never knew. 

Who may enter: any undergraduate or graduate student currently enrolled at the University of New Hampshire.

Criteria and guidelines:Your essay is to be no longer than 500 words. Essays are to include at least one reference to a work by Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, the Commemorative Address keynote speaker. Essays will be judged on originality, relevance to the question, creativity, clarity, organization, command of the English language, and overall effect. Deadline for submissions is 4PM on December 7, 2007. Essays are to be submitted to Lesley Rains in Huddleston 322 or via email to lesley.rains@unh.edu

PRIZES: 1st place: $250 and publication of essay around UNH community. 2nd place: $100
3rd place: $50

WInners will be announced at the Annual MLK Commemorative Address. Thursday January 29, 2008.

Minors Discretionary Grants

Requests for support for course development, course support, and
faculty development related to courses in the minors in Africana and
African American Studies, American Studies, and Race, Culture, and
Power may be submitted by faculty teaching in the minors to the
Minors Advisory Board.  Requests may include such items as books,    media materials, field trips, museum admissions, guest speakers and
associated costs, professional conferences, and supplies. The funding
will not support the purchase of food or beverages. Requests should
be submitted by email to Lesley Rains, and they should itemize
anticipated expenditures as precisely as possible, noting course in
the minor (or planned course), dates of expenditure/activities,
number of students, rationale for request, and anticipated outcomes.
Faculty may make requests up to $500.00.  The proposal will be
circulated by email to the Advisory Board for its comments and
approval within 3 business days, if possible.  No single course or
individual professor will be funded for more than $500.00 in an
academic year. Please contact Lesley Rains or David Watters with any
questions about proposals and procedures.

Faculty Seminar (in conjunction with the 2007-2008 Sidore Series)

Puedo Hablar? May I Speak?
Movie and conversation with the director, Chris Moore
Monday, October 8, 2007 at 7PM
Murkland 115

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