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We Cannot Keep Silent: An evening of reflection and dialogue

Friday, March 29

Closing Night: Last chance to visit the Exhibit: 5:30 pm 6:45 pmPhiladelphia Folklore Project, 735 S. 50th Street

In December 2009, dozens of Asianimmigrant students boycotted their highschool and launched a civil rights campaignaround a districts responsibility to provide

a safe educational climate. Asian AmericansUnited and partners curate an exhibitfeaturing voices from a campaign thatsought educational justice in a schoolstruggling with violence and racial discord.

Curated by Helen Gym, Ellen Somekawa and JoanMay Cordova. Featuring photos by Harvey Finkle andKathy Shimizu, first person voices of boycott participants, and oral histories by Joan May Cordova.

We Cannot Keep Silent was developed in partnership with the Philadelphia Folklore Project.

Come to the Forum: The Shifting Politics of Race7 pm @ Cedar Works, 4919 Pentridge Street

Speakers:Scott Kurashige, Ph.D

John Elliott Churchville, Ph.D., J.D.

This project has been supported in part by the Pennsylvania HumanitiesCouncil, the Federal-State Partner of the National Endowment for theHumanities

RSVP & for More Information: Asian Americans United 215-925-1538 aau@aaunited.org

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The Shifting Politics of Race:Points of Unity and Points of Contention among People of Color

Public Forum

Friday, March 29, 7 pmCedar Works, 4919 Pentridge Street

Seemingly, most people of color embrace an ideal of multiethnic solidarity, but many tend toact on the basis of real or perceived divergence of interests. Overcoming this contradiction inthe future will necessitate telling a new story about the past. . .

Moving beyond the idea that "whiteness" equates to "majority" in America opens up newpossibilities for interethnic and multiethnic relations. Communities of color need not view

themselves as "minorities" in competition with each other to get closer to the status of whitesbut instead must recognize their increasing power and responsibility to redefine and reshapethe majority culture. Scott Kurashige, The Politics of Multiethnic Relations, Huffington Post

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Featuring:

Scott Kurashige, Ph.D:Asian American Movements, Anti-Asian Violence& the Intersection with African American History

Detroit activist and Professor of Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies & African American Studies at theUniversity of Michigan, Scott is the author ofThe Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americansin the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles and the co-author with Grace Lee Boggs ofThe Next AmericanRevolution: Sustainable Activism for the 21st Century. Scott has been involved in Detroit Summer, theDetroit Asian Youth Project, and the Boggs Center.

John Elliott Churchville, Ph.D., J.D.:African American Movements in Philadelphia

& the Intersection with Asian American HistoryAuthor, community activist, leadership coach, theologian, and attorney, John organized with SNCC inSouthwest Georgia and the Mississippi Delta, and then came back up north to found the Freedom Libraryhere in Philadelphia. He has been active since the 1960s and is the head of Liberation FellowshipCommunity Development Corporation and President of the Greater Germantown Business Association.