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Racial Justice and the Ivory Tower: Higher Education’s Racial Reckoning Reaches Far Beyond Slavery
Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies at Trinity College
The social unrest and activism that emerged after the murder of George Floyd in summer 2020, instigated a profound moment of racial reckoning. Colleges and universities were forced to grapple with the history of their entanglements with various forms of white supremacy — especially slavery. But in the rush to rename buildings and set up slave memorials, many have glossed over the present-day consequences of higher education’s role in maintaining a system of racial hierarchy that reaches far beyond slavery. To be sure schools became the friendly face of segregation in the Jim Crow north and south. But the expansion of university campuses across our cities and towns in the present has produced a new set of challenges, especially for working class neighborhoods and communities of color. Higher education’s racial reckoning is now.
A Zoom Webinar - November 5, 2021 - 6:00 p.m. CDT
Zoom ID: 942 0039 0940 • Passcode: 971027
Moderated by
Ruth N. López Turley, professor of sociology and director, Houston Education Research Consortium
In conversation with
William Fulton, director, Rice University Kinder Institute for Urban Research
Webinar co-sponsored by
Rice University Center for African and African American Studies
Davarian L. Baldwin is a leading urbanist, historian and cultural critic. He currently serves as the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies and founding director of the Smart Cities Lab at Trinity College. Baldwin is the author of several books, most recently “In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities” (Bold Type Books, 2021).He serves as a distinguished lecturer for the Organization of American Historians and on the executive committee of Scholars for Social Justice.