Announcements

Announcements

Various announcements about this course will be posted on this page - this is the page to check for important and changing information.

The midterm questions will be added to the web site.

See recent OP-ED by Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times on the "In The News" tab

Check you section on the section lists now posted on the "Section Information" tab

Note further changes in section lists posted on 9/21/05

Please note the following event:

Legacies of Slavery in American Life:

Politics, Education, and the Arts

An Interdisciplinary Workshop

Sponsored by the University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice

September 30-October 1

FRIDAY 9/30 (All events in Smith-Buonano 106)

4:00-5:50 pm. Slavery in the Artistic and Popular Imagination

*Ashraf Rushdy, Wesleyan University, "Slavery's New Narratives; Slavery's New Apologists"

*Lisa Woolfork, University of Virginia, "Reembodying American Slavery: Encountering Trauma in the Literary and Popular Imagination"

6:00-7:30 pm. Reception

7:30-9:00 pm. Reading and Talk by John Edgar Wideman

SATURDAY 10/1 (All events in Smith-Buonano 106)

8:30-9:00 am. Coffee

9:00-10:50 am. Reproducing Inequality

*Linda Williams, University of Maryland, "Has the Voting Rights Act Worked? Confronting the Legacy of Political Discrimination"

*Amanda Lewis, University of Illinois, Chicago, "Explaining Racial Inequality in Educational Outcomes: Why History Matters"

11:00-12:50 pm. Empathy and its Absence: Slavery, Race, Stigma

*Glenn Loury, Brown University, "The Dynamics of Racial Inequality"

*Tyrone Forman, University of Illinois, Chicago, "Race, Apathy, and Hurricane Katrina: The Anatomy of Racial Prejudice in the Post-Civil Rights Era"

1:00-2:00 pm. Lunch

2:00-3:30 pm. Roundtable discussion

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC