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What's PlayingBazaarsNov. 21
St. Stanislaus School benefit, 9 to 4 in Kolbe Hall, Adams. Bake sale, snack bar, games, Chinese auctions, money raffle, crafts, and pierogi.
Blackinton Union Church, 1373 Massachusetts Ave., North Adams; 10 to 2. Crafts table, bake sale, Chinese auction, the Christmas table, and kid's grab bag. Lunch $4, $2 kids.
First Congregational Church, North Adams, 9-2.
Nov. 28
Becket Federated Church, Route 8, holiday bazaar from 9-3. Lunch, crafts, baked goods, holiday and other items. Information: Mary Peltier, Parish House, 413-623-5217.
Dec. 5
Holiday Fair at First Congregational Church, 25 Park Place, Lee, from 10 to 3; handcrafted items, raffles, children's shop, bake sale, cut Christmas trees and lunch from 11 to 1. Includes angel-themed goods from SERRV. Information, 413-243-1033 or www.ucc-lee.org.
Dec. 12-13
North Adams Country Club, crafts 9-4; food from That's a Wrap from 11-2. Information: Sheryl Morehouse at 413-822-3329.
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Lecture Will Explore Race Relations and Political Correctness10:11AM / Tuesday, February 10, 2009
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Professor John L. Jackson will speak on "Racism, Post-Raciality, and the Hidden Injuries of Colorblindness" on Thursday, Feb. 12, at 7:30 p.m. in the Science Center's Bronfman Auditorium.
The lecture will explore issues of race relations, contemporary popular culture, and political correctness.
Jackson is the Richard Perry university associate professor of communications and anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds joint appointments in Penn's Annenberg School for Communication and School of Art and Sciences and at Harvard Law School.
He was previously associate professor in the department of cultural anthropology at Duke University. Before joining Duke's faculty in 2002, Jackson was a junior fellow in Harvard's Society of Fellows.
He is the author of "Racial Paranoia: The Unintended Consequences of Political Incorrectness" (2008), "Real Black: Adventures in Racial Sincerity" (2005) and "Harlemworld: Doing Race and Class in Contemporary Black America" (2001). Jackson has also written a number of essays and produced a number of feature films.
He is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including the Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Award, the Lilly Endowment Fellowship and the National Humanities Center.
He received his bachelor's degree from Howard University in 1993 and his doctorate in anthropology from Columbia University in 2000. The lecture is sponsored by the Multicultural Center Lecture Series, Africana Studies, the Oakley Center, and Claiming Williams. It is free and open to the public. |
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