Students Discuss Appropriation, Race

Students Discuss Appropriation, Race

Town hall held by Chief Diversity Officer Miguel Fernandez and the Director for the Center for Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity, Associate Professor Lint Sagarena. The discussion focused on cultural appropriation and the "need for a respectful and mindful community and the need for students to be educated about race, culture, and history". The impetus for this town hall was an incident where a white student wore a sombrero in Proctor, and offended a Latino student.

Volume 114, Number 10

Philip Bohlman

The Campus

12/03/2015

Miguel Fernandez- Chief Diversity Officer
Associate Professor Lint Sagarena- Director for the Center for Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity,
Nicolas Mendia '16

"Nicolas Mendia '16 shared his experience with confronting the student wearing the sombrero... he related the student's resistance to take off her sombrero, and her conviction that she was not culturally appropriating."