 
The Center for Race Relations (CRR) embraces a dual conception of race, one that addresses the problems caused by existing racial definitions while forging a new racial understanding.
The Center does not advocate color-blindness, since each person's unique cultural identity is comprised of individual experiences. However, the only true "race" is the human race, and while we recognize our cultural differences, the "race" of each human being is composed of ethnicity, gender, sexuality, socioeconomic class, religion, and countless other factors. Thus, the work of the CRR is bound up in, but not confined to, contemporary notions of race.
VISION
One day, Duke's community (and the rest of the world!) will be one of inclusion and respect that recognizes, embraces, and values both our common humanity and differences as individuals, creating a society in which identity is neither constrained nor prescribed by group affiliation.
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION MISSION
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The CRR Alumni Association exists to facilitate contact between former CRR members with their classmates, fellow retreat participants and facilitators, as well as to introduce them to other CRRers from different years and to engage the community of similarly motivated alumni who graduated from Duke before the CRR was formed.
Our activities will work toward a number of goals: to support the current undergraduate leadership of the CRR and their programs; to bring CRR Alumni in individual areas and nationwide together for dialogues, social events and even retreats; to discover ways to further the work we did with the CRR outside of Duke and achieve the CRR's vision by continuing the conversations and efforts for change we all remember from our undergraduate involvement.
  
FACILITATING
Contact Dan Baum, dbaum@alumni.duke.edu for more information
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