Gaines, Alisha2018-02-282018-02-282017-09-22http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11868/300https://youtu.be/0ozo4Hs3u4MPlease click on YouTube Video link above to stream the presentation.We are in seemingly unprecedented times. Dr. Alisha Gaines, professor at Florida State and author of the recent book Black for a Day: White Fantasies of Race and Empathy, will detail how her unique, genealogical history of cross-racial experiments in empathy can teach us about allyship, intentionality, politics, and race--even today.en-USScholar's symposiumWriters at the UniversityTrumpEmpathyEnglish DepartmentFlorida State UniversityCross-racial experimentsAllyshipIntentionalityPoliticsRaceResearch Subject Categories::SOCIAL SCIENCESResearch Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGIONPresentation