About MCRC
The Mourning the Creation of Racial Categories (MCRC) Project, founded in 2016, brings a unique lens to the national dialogue and conversation surrounding race. The MCRC Project brings together creative, performing and visual artists to tell the stories of how people in the United States were (and still are) broken apart into unequally-valued racial categories.
The MCRC Project is a collaborative project facilitated by Joan Ferrante and Lynnissa Hillman, both of whom are sociologists at Northern Kentucky University.
Art by Sherman Parnell
What We Do
MCRC tells stories that allow audiences to explore the origins of what feels like an irreconcilable racial divide. One hallmark of the MCRC Project is that its stories are infused with art, which promotes engagement, not defensiveness.
Through artistic collaborations, workshops, discussions, films and virtual exhibitions, we explore the roots of our unprocessed emotions surrounding race, which have entangled us for over 400 years, and still weigh us down.
Your support helps retell history
Every person in the United States feels the weight of race. Our identities and communities have been built around it. MCRC is dedicated to engaging with a difficult subject, exploring the depth by which we are all affected and mourning the ways we have been broken into racial categories. Through this process, we transform the way we think about race. Now we are prepared to take steps toward reconciliation.
Donations received are used to fund MCRC artists, actors, writers and filmmakers and commission new works that help us share the stories and emotions behind how we’ve been broken apart.
