Marquette – Northern Michigan University’s 2017 Diversity Common Reader selection is “Citizen: An American Lyric” by Claudia Rankine. David Pilgrim, founder and director of the Jim Crow Museum, will give a keynote address titled “Them: Images of Separation” on Thursday, April 13 at 6:30 p.m. in Jamrich 1100 at NMU.
Although the Jim Crow Museum focuses on segregation memorabilia and anti-black caricatured items, the facility has a growing collection of objects that were created in this country to defame others, most prominently, women, poor people, Mexicans, Asians, Jews, Muslims and Indigenous peoples. Pilgrim will use historical and contemporary images of everyday objects to discuss the prevalence and consequences of group separation.
The event is free and open to the public.
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