The Race Epidemic Documentary Featuring CA Attorney General Rob Bonta, Former Treasurer John Chiang, Congressmember Judy Chu Premieres At CAAMFest
Film Explores the Epidemic of Hate Against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) Spread by the COVID-19 Pandemic
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LOS ANGELES, May 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Race Epidemic documentary premieres on May 13, 2021 at Center for Asian American Media Film Festival (CAAMFest), the nation s largest Asian American film festival. The Race Epidemic documentary is a significant film of our time as innocent Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) are being attacked and murdered on our streets. The documentary tells the story of AAPIs and their unique history in the broader context of racism in America. Racism is America s epidemic – it has plagued our nation since its inception. It attacks different groups more intensely at different times, but it always persists.
When the community in question has a population of just more than 2,000, the turnout is even more impressive. That’s the track Peosta is on these days, and there are good things coming the way of this growing Dubuque County town.
Peosta caught statewide attention following the 2000 Census when it was deemed to be Iowa’s fastest-growing city. In 1990, Peosta had no more than 130 people - just 30 years ago. By 2000, it had jumped to more than 1,000. Twenty years later, that population has doubled, and the vibrancy of the community is obvious.
Developers are doubling down on that anticipated growth and community engagement with several new projects in the works. Construction kicked off recently to transform a vacant lot on the west end of the Northeast Iowa Community College campus into a four-story complex that will house about 190 students. The $14 million project is expected to be completed in August 2022.
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Charles W. Mills. (Photo by Sam Alcoff)
Arguably no contemporary scholar has thought more deeply about how liberalism as a political tradition and philosophy has been historically and structurally biased towards the socioeconomic interests of white people than the political philosopher Charles W. Mills. In works such as
The Racial Contract and
Black Rights/White Wrongs, he has sought to show the reality of an ongoing system of white domination in which liberalism both as a philosophy and as a system of governance is complicit. Mills traces the problem back to the origins of modern liberalism, when liberals thinkers such as Kant and Locke limited the question of moral and political equality to whites, at the same time that European powers were enslaving and oppressing nonwhite peoples.1
Mark A. Sanders
The University of Notre Dame has launched the Initiative on Race and Resilience, a new interdisciplinary program focused on the redress of systemic racism and the support of diverse communities both within and beyond the Notre Dame campus.
Led by the College of Arts and Letters with additional support from the Office of the Provost, the initiative will bring together scholars and students in the humanities, arts, social sciences and other disciplines to challenge systemic racism and promote racial equity through research, education and community empowerment.
“Our University mission calls on us to assist the world to create justice grounded in love, and so we have a unique responsibility to support the study of race and to amplify the voices, gifts and talents of people of color,” said Mark A. Sanders, the inaugural director of the initiative and a professor of English and Africana studies at Notre Dame. “This initiative marks the creation of a think t