Oct 26 2023

“Denied”: Michelle Manno Book Launch Event

October 26, 2023

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM (CT)

Location

UIC Student Center East, Room 301

Address

750 S. Halsted St., Chicago, IL

Virtual Registration

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About the event: Join IRRPP for an exciting conversation! Michelle Manno, Assistant Provost for Diversity and Inclusion at Northwestern University, will be discussing and reading from her new book, Denied: Women, Sports, and the Contradictions of Identity. Michelle will be joined for a lively conversation by Ashleen Bracey, UIC Women’s Basketball Head Coach.

About the book: Denied offers a courtside view of how women athletes’ identities are policed, on and off the court. Women’s college basketball is big business — top teams bring in millions of dollars in revenue for their schools. Women’s NCAA games are broadcast regularly on sports networks, and many of the top players and coaches are household names. Yet these athletes face immense pressure to be more than successful at their sport. They must also conform to expectations about gender, sexuality, and race — expectations that are often in direct contrast to success in the game. They are not supposed to have muscles that are too big, they are not supposed to be too tough, they are not supposed to be too masculine or “look like men,” and they are not supposed to be queer.

About the series: Events in the Legacies of Racism Series deepen our understanding of the challenges and possibilities of policy efforts to address longstanding racial inequality. Legacies of Racism events build on the themes from our State of Racial Justice in Chicago reports and explore the recent and historic origins of racial and ethnic inequities and ask questions about what it means to try to repair systematic harm done to people and communities.

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Contact

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Date posted

Sep 28, 2023

Date updated

Sep 28, 2023

Speakers

Michelle Mano | Assistant Provost for Diversity and Inclusion at Northwestern University | Northwestern University

Michelle Manno is the Assistant Provost for Diversity and Inclusion. In this role, Manno provides strategic and tactical support on critical activities for the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion, promoting equitable culture across Northwestern. Manno actively engages as a leader with internal and external stakeholders in support of this mission, to coordinate efforts aimed at creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment for the entire community. Manno came to Northwestern from UIC, where they most recently served as Assistant Vice Chancellor of Diversity Initiatives and as faculty affiliate in the Department of Sociology.

Coach Ashleen Bracey | UIC Women's Basketball Coach | University of Illinois, Chicago

Ashleen Bracey enters her second season as the head women’s basketball coach for the UIC Flames after arriving in March 2022. Bracey had a memorable first season, leading the Flames to a 19-win season, a postseason appearance, and a tie for the second-most wins by a head coach in school history. The Flames began the 2022-23 season going 8-1, accumulating more wins than they had over the past three seasons combined. The Oak Park-native arrived at UIC in after spending the past six seasons as an assistant coach at the University of Missouri.