For my first story, I plan to write about an event sponsored by the American Ethnic Studies Program titled “We Gotta Walk That Line”: How an ‘Atypical Family’ Negotiates Race and Religion to ‘Become’ Diverse.  The talk will be hosted by Jelani Ice who is a doctoral candidate in sociology at Indiana University.  Ice’s research concerns race, culture and organizations and his dissertation focuses on “how interactions shape people’s understandings of how to navigate institutional myths.”  The reason I want to focus on this event is due to the misogynistic and racially charged emails that were received last week to certain faculty members.  I think it is important to discuss how racial groups interact and engage in integrated organizations and how those dynamics work.  I am interested to hear Ice’s full position on the stance and what he has gathered from his research, but also how the Wake community and others who attend the talk take away from it.