Center for Multicultural Affairs

  • Embrace

    Embrace

    Embrace is an intimate gathering of student women of color interested in exploring and challenging their understanding of themselves and other women of color, in all our wonderful, complicated and sometimes frustrating diversity.

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  • Monday Motivations

    Monday Motivations

    Monday Motivations is a weekly meet-and-greet where students, faculty, staff, and community members come together and start their week off with free food, friendly people, and casual dialogue on issues pertaining to multiculturalism and social justice.

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  • Down to Earth Dinner Series

    Down to Earth Dinner Series

    Faculty and staff discuss their diverse experiences and share research during this relaxed, interactive dinner event.
     

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  • Race Speaks!

    Race Speaks!

    RACE SPEAKS! is a multifaceted initiative developed by the Center for Multicultural Affairs at Duke University that aims to increase understanding of the role that race plays in everyday life.

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  • Culture Clash

    Culture Clash is a series of meetings throughout the semester that aim to build and/or strengthen bridges between different cultural communities at Duke and in the broader Durham community.

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Who We Are: 

The Center for Multicultural Affairs (CMA) empowers students and their organizations to create a vibrant and inclusive multicultural student community. We promote community engagement, multicultural education, and leadership development through our programs and services.  Read more.

Have You Heard?

I never knew people could be ab-normal…
May 14, 2012

Anonymous, from Race Speaks, published by the Center for Multicultural Affairs

Maybe I have been living under a rock or something because until I came to Duke I did not realize that people could be ab-normal. The first time this was revealed to me was in Issues of Education and Immigration, a great service-learning course where I was able to interact with Spanish speaking students in two elementary schools. It never once crossed my mind that some of them were considered ab-normal to my fellow peers.

Being White Saved My Life...
May 07, 2012

Before I could mumble a word about myself, I was white. This is evident by the information on my birth certificate. I never knew my biological father and I have never met him. He left before I was born. Nonetheless, he was white, my mother was white, and so I was white. I had no say. It was what people told me I was. Simple enough? Well, not really. It’s quite complex.



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