Anti-racism Statement
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As a Department, we pledge to examine our practices at the classroom and the College levels.
Classroom
While our discipline has historically centered continental French cultural producers and downplayed the talent of “outside” contributors, the French Department at Reed has long strived to include voices from the broader French-speaking world — the Caribbean, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Maghreb, and more. We wish to recommit, today, to elevating these perspectives in our program offerings.
College
We invite our students and fellow community members to help us to better understand how our department and community can participate in founding a more just, equitable, and inclusive institution, and help us amplify the voices of those traditionally left out of academia for racist reasons. We welcome conversations with students, staff, and fellow faculty about how works from the French-speaking world can help us to understand and combat the legacy of colonialism in the modern world. We commit to continuing to grapple with the racist legacies of academia and to elevate the important work being done across the college, the country, and the world to put an end to racial intolerance and dehumanization.