The current discourse of captioning enforces a captions façade of neutral technology, but this view of captions as neutral doesn’t answer: Why are Black actors miscaptioned at higher rates than their white counterparts? Why do television sex scenes caption queer sex differently than heterosexual sex? Why do captions “correct” language into standard American English? Captions…
The purpose of The Collective is to create a space for women of color enrolled at NC State to form a community, break silos and deepen relationships through facilitated dialogue centered on truth-telling and testimonials. The Collective welcomes cisgender and transgender women as well as femmes and gender nonconforming folk. The Collective is open to…
Join us for #TravelingWhileBlack and listen to the global experiences of fellow NC State students, alumni, faculty and/or staff who identify as Black or African American. We hope you will engage and ask questions to enrich the conversation. This event is sponsored by the Study Abroad Office and International Programs in the College of Humanities…
Interested in attaining a Jenkins MBA on your schedule with face-to-face and online programs that build on your military experience? With the option to design a customized course plan, you can complete your MBA in as few as 21 months or take as long as six years. Join our admissions team as they give insight…
This class will explore Afro Latin social or traditional movement, the inherent connection to the earth in both the dances and draw from class instructor Bianca Medina's movement research.
Spend an evening watching Little Fires Everywhere, a miniseries starring Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington, with the African American Cultural Center. Join us virtually for a different episode each week and hang out after the show to discuss and unpack your thoughts. Watch parties will be held every Thursday at 6 p.m. from Feb. 4…
Are you ready for some coffee talk? Are you looking for a place to connect with colleagues, ask questions and share ideas about teaching in these challenging, uncertain times? Join DELTA, NC State University Libraries and the Office of Faculty Development virtually for Faculty Chat Café. The café will be open via Zoom on Fridays…
Across NC State’s history, many Pack members — including powerful decision-makers, students, professors and staff — upheld white supremacy within and outside the school as an increasing number of campus community members confronted and disrupted racist hierarchies. This tension remains part of the school's buildings, from the land on which the structures stand to the…
Feminist Friday scholars facilitate discussions that often provoke dissonance as well as attend to the intersections of one’s identity and how they interact with structural systems of dominance and oppression. Scholars are not expected to be knowledge experts, only to care about the topic they’ve chosen and be willing to learn more about it. Feminist…
The Brown Bag Speaker Series presents "African American English in Context: Hearing Race" with Yolanda Feimster Holt, an associate professor of communication sciences and disorders at East Carolina University. For some time, efforts to categorize talker race have been attempted. This project evaluated listener categorization of talker socio-ethnic race. Familiar North Carolina and naïve (Indiana)…