What role has sexual assault played in our nation’s history? From Pocahontas to enslavement to today? How have women fought to change behaviors, cultural norms, and public policies regarding sexual assault? Race, racism, and intersectionality will be key themes of this webinar because sexual violence has long been used as a tool of white supremacy … Continued
This webinar, based on Zuccino's 2021 Pulitzer Prize–winning book, will discuss the causes and the lasting legacy of the 1898 white supremacist coup in Wilmington, North Carolina, the only armed overthrow of an elected government in United States history. White supremacists spent months planning the coup, in which they burned the city's Black newspaper and … Continued
The ’92 L.A. Riots erupted after a Simi Valley jury acquitted four officers despite a graphic video of them brutally beating a black motorist named Rodney King. This webinar explores the similarities and differences between the social unrest related to the King video and that sparked by the 9 minute and 29 second George Floyd … Continued
Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was controversial from the moment it appeared. Banned in 1885 for being sacrilegious, the book has been objected to for being “racist” since 1957, and still frequently appears on annual top ten lists of books challenged in US schools. Many objections to the novel stem from readers’ failure to … Continued
In this presentation, Dr. Yohuru Williams explores the history of the struggle for racial equality in the United States from the Civil Rights era through the contemporary Black Lives Matter Movement with an exploration of key episodes and moments in U.S. history using a variety of primary sources.
Since its publication in 1970, The Bluest Eye has remained a literary classic, a staple taught in classrooms across the country. The first novel to powerfully depict what “that race thing feels like” from the perspective of a little black girl who longs for blue eyes during the racist, sexist climate of 1940s Ohio, the … Continued
This webinar examines the relationship between white supremacy and the making of America in the long twentieth century. For many white Americans at the turn of the last century, “white supremacy” was a political program and a battle cry. A response to black freedom struggles, changing populations, and new economic orders, white supremacy set the … Continued
On September 30, 1968 George Wallace came to Chicago. From the airport his motorcade raced to downtown, where his staffers had a glistening open-top limousine waiting for him. He climbed into the back, planted himself between the driver and passenger seats, and braced for the car to start moving. Then he was off, parading along … Continued
The civil rights movement was not only a struggle to win freedom and equality for African Americans. It went far deeper than that, as it also reshaped the lives of white southerners and shook the very foundations of southern society. It transformed electoral politics, challenged deep-rooted racial attitudes, and upended everyday practices. Thus, it constituted … Continued
The Middle Ages are in the news a lot these days—from the invocation of the “Crusades” after 9/11 to the “medieval” plight of women in some areas of the modern Middle East to alt-right protesters dressing as chivalric knights and Vikings and using medieval symbols during the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. How … Continued