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Western Carolinian Volume 68 Number 11

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  • WCU Alumnus Speaks About Race By Jessica Jarrard | WC On April 15, Mark Huddle, Western Carolina University alumnus gave a lecture in the Mountain Heritage Center entitled: In the First Place Walter White is White: WEB Dubois, Mixed Race Americans and the Politics of the Mulatto. Faculty who are friends of Huddle were present, along with a number of students and other guests. Huddle received his undergraduate and masters degrees here at WCU and obtained his doctorate degree at the University of Georgia. He is now an assistant professor of history at St. Bonaventure University in New York. Much of his research analyzes racial categories in 20"-century American culture and politics. He previously presented his work at universities including Princeton, Columbia, Howard and Auburn, as well as at the universities of 14,000 Feet Up and Three Academic Credits Alabama and Georgia. His published works include @ a Grand Teton Mountains Trip : articles in the North Carolina Historical Review, Ba cs fj a . Ms 9 66 Promises Adventure, Beauty] i:sicmmsestiaessias History. By Luke Butchart | WC His lecture focused on W.E.B. Dubois and the study of racial theorizing from the end of Targhee National Forest, home of the Grand some twenty years ago. They are kind enough to let us Reconstruction until 1940, which are the central foci Tetons, is one of the most beautiful places in the use their facilities to outfit, says Phipps. And after a of his first book. The book is currently under country. The elevations range from 6,400 feet in the night and a day, the adventure begins. contract at the University of Pennsylvania Press. grasslands, to almost 14,000 feet on Grand Teton The course is taught on an 18-point curriculum W.E.B. DuBois was mulatto and wrote of it Mountain. Located between Northwestern Wyoming for outdoor leadership. There is never really any often. He was a historian, sociologist, novelist, and the Idaho state line, Targhee National Forest strenuous hiking, says Phipps. Just two miles a day, editor, and racialist. His work was quite important to provides hundreds of activities including fishing, and sometimes up to four. Each day there are times for the civil rights movement from the turn of the climbing, repelling, biking, bird-watching and skiing. classroom-style sessions where students learn team- century to the 1960s. This year, as in the past, WCUs Division of building techniques, first aid, initiative equipment Huddle highlighted two of DuBois Distance and Continuing Education Department is checks, cooking and mountaineering techniques like adversaries during that movement. The first was hosting the Teton Steward Course in the Targhee repelling and the Tyrolean Traverse. Students will also Marcus Garvey of the United Negro Association. National Forest. It is a Wilderness Education learn techniques for using ice axes and effective knot The other was Walter White. Association (WEA) course, which is a national tying. Garvey headed up the UNIA in Jamaica. association that promotes the protection and enjoyment During the course, students do not actually He led a race first campaign, which DuBois of our nations most precious landscapes. summit Grand Teton Mountain. Instead, they will climb criticized as being different in Jamaica and Haiti This course is not geared toward wilderness the mountains that stand parallel to Grand Teton, giving than in the US. Younger groups tended to sway from survival, says Maurice Phipps, a professor in the some of the best views anyone could ask for. Battleship DuBois theories to Garveys. department of Health and Human performance. It is a Mountain and Table Mountain are two of the adjacent Walter White was associated with the course made to teach people how to live outdoors peaks that students will summit. They are only a bit NAACP even though he was white. He was, safely. It is wilderness mountaineering. Phipps has lower in elevation than Grand Teton, at around 11,000 however, intent on proclaiming his blackness. He organized this trip to include plenty of food and ft. For each climbing session we ascend about 1,000 investigated lynches in the early 1900s and crossed equipment. Several nights we have feasts at the feet, says Phipps. And then we set base camps that race lines to find white allies for the NAACP. campsites, says Phipps. Everyone makes their favorite allow for more strenuous exercises without the heavy Huddle says that in the 1920s, a new dish and there is always plenty to eat. backpacks. generation of African-Americans and their white Phipps has been in outdoor education for 36 The course will be taught by two WEA- allies emerged. This began a cultural pluralism, years. He taught in England, his native country; certified instructors, WCUs Maurice Phipps and Aya which produced complex ideas about race. Australia; Canada and all over the United States. When Hayashi, a PH. D student from Indiana University. The Controversy over mulattos began when he first came to the U.S., Phipps took a three-week trip trip is not just for students; anyone interested is invited African-Americans began arguing with other to the Grand Teton Mountains that was led by Paul K. to participate. African-Americans over color by dividing Petzoldt. He was one of the founders of the WEA, Tt is a great opportunity for interaction, says themselves according to skin color. Huddle says Phipps. And at seventy-five he wrote New Robert Pitman, a faculty member in the College of explained that Mulattos were often considered Wilderness Handbook. He is truly the grandfather of Education and Allied Professions, as well as a team African-American, even though they were biracial. wilderness education. member from the Teton trip two years ago. Because Huddle tied his presentation together by explaining The course starts in Tetonia, Idaho, at Badger everyone is on the same level, it is easy to build how the mulatto politics were used as tools and Creek Outdoor Center, where the company of friendships. The experience could be described best as a weapons in racial controversies. It was a night of adventurers will outfit. Phipps worked at Badger Creek _ learning adventure. cultural awareness for everyone present.
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