Welcome

RACE: Are we so Different? is a powerful, thought-provoking family exhibit which uses history, science and lived experience, to explore human variation and reveal the reality – and unreality – of race.  Through film, still photography, interactive components and programming, the exhibit invites us to explore race as well as the impact of race as an economic, political and cultural construct.  More information and resources on the exhibit can be found on the wonderfully engaging companion website: www.understandingrace.org.  RACE is a project of the American Anthroplogical Association and Science Museum of Minnesota.

Coordinated by the Western Michigan University Office of Diversity and Inclusion, The RACE Exhibit Initiative is a collaboration of over 50 community organizations of Southwest Michigan providing guidance and expertise for RACE programming and organization.

The Mission of the RACE Exhibit Initiative is:

 "To use the Race Exhibit as a catalyst for community transformation around issues of race in SW Michigan.  We seek to create lasting partnerships with and among community organizations in order to organize for social change.  In reaching out to the broader public we will use the themes of the Race Exhibit and other available resources to educate, facilitate, and provide space and opportunity for dialogue about race in local, national, and historical contexts as well as part of our lived experiences."

Race: Are we so Different?
Coming to the Kalamazoo Valley Museum
October 2010 – January 2011
Free and Open to the Public

Visit www.understandingrace.org for a virtual exhibit tour.

"Change will not come if we wait
for some other person or some other time.
We are the ones we've been waiting for.
We are the change that we seek."

- Barack Obama

The Race Exhibit Initiative is supported by the Kalamazoo Community Foundation

and coordinated by the Western Michigan University Office of Diversity and Inclusion.

RACE: Are we so different? is a project of the American Anthropological Association and Science Museum of Minnesota with funding from the NSF and the Ford Foundation.