Overview: As part of our national reckoning with systemic racism, the School House Anti-Racsim Coalition (SHARC) will offer a shared anti-racist experience during the 2022-23 academic year that builds off of HBO’s Emmy-Award-winning series “Watchmen.” Set in 2019 and based on the 1986 DC comic of the same name, HBO’s “Watchmen” reimagines and remixes the Watchmen universe through an origin story rooted in the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. This timely and prescient series will serve as a rich source of inspiration for creative and engaging programming centered on issues related to anti-Black racism, White nationalism & White supremacy, policing & police violence, and social & economic justice.
Audience: Creating an anti-racist campus requires an all-hands-on-deck interdisciplinary and multigenerational approach. As such, our objective is to engage the entire Dartmouth campus: students, faculty, staff and senior leadership. As the School House Community is an inclusive microcosm of the greater Dartmouth community, we are well-positioned to initiate, incubate and sustain these often difficult conversations and necessary actions.
Format & Engagement: We envision offering 2-3 events/experiences per term. These events can/should range from traditional lecture/discussion to experiential/creative events (e.g., 48-hour film festival). In an effort to provide students with additional/alternative avenues for engagement, over the coming months we will reach out to instructors for 2022-23 to encourage them to incorporate the themes of the Watchmen and our Anti-Racism series into their course as a way to provide students with additional/alternative avenues for engagement. We could aim to have each term end with a large-scale event that will help focus campus energy and efforts.
Upcoming programs
Trevon D. Logan: The Sins of Economic History
