The American Cultures and Global Contexts Center recently announced the creation of a new web resource: the Race and Pedagogy Project (http://rpp.english.ucsb.edu/). A product of the department's Diversity Work Group and the American Cultures and Global Contexts Center, this resource provides teachers, students, researchers and the interested public with on-site research summaries and citations as well as bibliographies of research and teaching materials. The project has been inspired by lively, ongoing exchanges regarding anti-racist teaching strategies, exchanges that have evolved in a wide variety of disciplines and educational settings. The site attempts to convey the range of these engagements by highlighting representative examples of scholarship. The site developers envision this as a multi-year endeavor and they encourage suggestions and advice from site visitors, especially at this early stage. The site is carefully designed to lend many different voices to race and pedagogy dialogues. To this end, visitors are encouraged to add their comments by making use of the dialogue boxes positioned after each research summary and bibliography. The RPP development team includes four English graduate students, Susan Cook, David Roh, Benjamin Shockey and Katherine Voll, as well as Professor Carl Gutierrez-Jones. The project has been funded by UCSB’s Office of Research and the Rockefeller Foundation.

The American Cultures and Global Contexts Center in the Department of English, together with UC Santa Barbara's Global and International Studies Program and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, are co-sponsoring a year-long, campus-wide project on the subject of "America and the Reshaping of a New World Order: Normative Implications, Cultural Constraints." Funded by an annual grant devoted to "Critical Issues in America" and administered by the Office of the Provost in the College of Letters and Science, this project will include a sequence of special programs, from a distinguished speaker series, and a major academic conference, to a UC system-wide Faculty Roundtable, and a film series, and it will be coordinated with a variety of graduate and undergraduate courses.
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