Despite myths of a postracial world, racism is alive and well. In his “engrossing and relentless intellectual history of prejudice in America” (Washington Post), the historian and 2016 National Book Award winner Ibram X. Kendi traces the arc of antiblack racist ideas from 15th-century Portugal to the founding of the United States, arguing that we must confront the […]
Karen Havey is a Professor of Cultural History at the University of Sheffield. Her focus as a cultural historian is of the British long eighteenth century, with a special interest in gender.
Atlantic History Speaker Series Presents Maris J. Fuentes (Rutgers University, Departments of Women's and Gender Studies and History) "'Refuse' Bodies, Disposable Lives: The Bio-politics of the Atlantic Slave Trade" Tuesday, January 24, 2017 6275 Bunche Hall, 12 PM-2 PM