Addressing Race: Shorewood Library Offers Program

SHOREWOOD, WI—The Shorewood Public Library and the Shorewood School District teamed up to offer UWM professor Erin Winkler in a virtual presentation via Zoom entitled Talking About Race: Understanding Racial Identity Development and How it Affects Us.

The event takes place on Saturday, October 24 from 10:30 a.m. until noon.

Dr. Erin Winkler will share some racial identity development models and explain how our understandings of—and reactions to—racialized issues in our daily lives are related our own racial identity development processes.

Lastly, the conversation will shift to discuss some ways in which racial identity development affects children and youth specifically.

Participants will engage in reflection throughout the presentation, and there will be time for questions and answers at the end of the discussion.

Dr. Winkler is associate professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she also serves on the advisory boards of Childhood and Adolescent Studies; Ethnic Studies; and Latin American, Caribbean, and US Latino/a Studies; and is affiliated faculty in Urban Studies and Women's Studies.

To join via Zoom click here: https://zoom.us/j/95980155925. To call into the meeting by phone, dial 312 626-6799, and use the Meeting ID 959 8015 5925.