Lives Bound Together: The Washingtons and Ona Marie Judge in NH

Trailblazer Harriet E. Wilson: From Servitude to Authorship In early September 1859, the Boston firm of George C. Rand and Avery published Our Nig: Sketches in the Life of a Free Black, a book widely accepted as the first published novel written in English by a Black woman. Wilson was born and raised in Milford, NH. On this tour, you will hear the story of Wilson’s journey from indentured servitude to authorship and visit the sites where her courageous story…

New Hampshire: Beyond Black & White Panelists: David Watters, Darrell Hucks, & (TBA) Moderator: Dottie Morris Location: Keene State College Young Student Center in the Mountain view room Moving Beyond rigid racial identities, this talk will explore the contemporary as well as historic intersection between Black and Indigenous communities, the presence of “passing” mixed race individuals, and the most recent immigrant experience within a New England context. These complex interactions, connections conflicts, experiences, and resistant efforts of Black, white and…

Land, Wealth and Policies of Marginalization Presenters: Meghan Howey, Woullard Lett, & (TBA) Moderator: Meg Peterson Location: Pease Public Library, Plymouth NH Despite improvements in education, social mobility and many other critical areas, large racial and ethnic disparities still exist in the U.S. Years of intentional government policies that removed lands and resources from Native Americans and restricted access for African Americans have created a significant wealth divide in the country that continues to create inequities faced today. This panel…

In the Beginning, There was the Word Presenters: Robert Thompson, Rev. Gail Avery, Rev. Renee Rouse, & (TBA) Moderator: Minister Ray Ealy Location: Nashua Public Library, Nashua NH The relationship between religion and race in American is complex. 20th-century scholars ranked world religions on an evolutionary scale. Not surprisingly, many of the religions deemed “primitive” were also those practiced by indigenous, non-White populations. This evolutionary ranking plays a vital role in the construction, deconstruction, and transgression of racial identities and…

Beliefs are powerful structures within the human mind that help us navigate our social and personal environments. These beliefs do not need to make sense to be deeply held. Our thoughts and feelings, our actions and reactions, respond not to the world as it is but to the world as we believe it to be. This panel will explore the nature of beliefs around race, how they are formed, how they affect us both individually and in social groups and,…

The media – television, the press, radio and the internet – plays an important role in shaping public opinion and reinforcing a society’s beliefs. In informing the public about what happens in the world, the media can shape public debate and focus public interest on particular agendas and thus can influence individual actions and implicit associations. For this panel, presenters will explore how media coverage operates to help form individual beliefs and attitudes around race. They will also explore the…

Racism in medicine, a problem with roots over 2,500 years old, is a historical continuum that continuously affects the health of African Americans and the way they receive healthcare. Racism is, at least in part, responsible for the fact that Blacks and People of Color, since enslavement, have had inadequate health care, poor health status, and poorer health outcomes. This panel will discuss how myths about racial inferiority and physical racial differences have operated in the fields of medical practice,…

Many of our beliefs are passed along to us from our families and communities, who transmit the foundational ideas that shape how we see the world. How the arts and humanities shape their contents also have a powerful influence on how we form particular beliefs. This panel will discuss the historical role the arts, literature and interpretive spaces such as museums have played in shaping our beliefs and discuss the value of presenting more inclusive stories and diverse representations into…

From the moment a child is born, his or her education begins. As the child grows beliefs, cultural expectations and norms are reinforced by teachers, textbooks, and classmates. For students outside the dominant culture, this aspect of the educational system can pose significant challenges for once the brain has constructed a belief, it rationalizes it with explanations and thus becomes invested in the belief. This panel will explore the historical challenges educational institutions have faced in dealing with diverse student…

The implicit associations and beliefs we harbor in our subconscious cause us to have feelings and attitudes about other people based on characteristics such as race, ethnicity, age, and appearance. With a lens on educational institutions, politics and the law, this closing discussion will feature a group of emerging New Hampshire voice that will explore where we are culturally as a state and where we want to be heading. MORE TEA TALKS