Researcher

Anthropology

American University (Washington, DC)

Brett Williams

The Race Monologues: An exploration into contemporary experiences of race and racism in the United States.

“The Race Monologues” will explore contemporary experiences of race and racism in the United States. Each “monologue” constructed by our informants will represent a small part of the ongoing discussion about the social reality of race, how it effects the lives of individuals, how it is used as an discriminatory tool by individuals and institutions, as well as the ways we can come to a new understanding of diversity. Narratives extracted from a broad collection of lived experiences attempt to personalize and concretize issues of structural racism, environmental justice, stereotyping, linguistic discrimination, identity, and the construction of race. “The Race Monologues” will be a significant catalogue of narratives on race at an exceptional time.