Past Event
Tuesday, September 11, 2018, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
American Denial
16275 Pomerado Road, Poway, 92064
Cost: Free
American Denial is a thought provoking documentary that follows the story of foreign researcher and Nobel Laureate Gunnar Myrdal, whose study, An American Dilemma (1944), provided a provocative inquiry into the dissonance between stated beliefs as a society and what is perpetuated and allowed in the name of those beliefs. His inquiry into the United States’ racial psyche becomes a lens for modern inquiry into how denial, cognitive dissonance, and unrecognized, unconscious attitudes continue to dominate racial dynamics in American life. The film’s unusual narrative sheds a unique light on the unconscious political and moral world of modern Americans. Stay for a discussion facilitated by the Rev. Laura Sheridan-Campbell, M.Div.