Critical Race Conversations

A Folger Institute Fiftieth Anniversary Project Supported by the Mellon Initiative in Collaborative Research

Thursday, January 28, 2021, 3:00 pm

Virtual Event on YouTube | 3 – 4:15 pm Eastern Time

TICKETS: Free

Constructions of race have upheld racist structures of inequality for hundreds of years. These constructions were founded upon many types of difference, based on faith, on family, on blood and body, on ways of acting and thinking and being in the world. They were so pervasive that they became operative in lived experiences, medical discourses, founding principles, and legal statutes. Racial injustice has been and continues to be systemic and damaging. Today, premodern critical race studies scholars are offering new insights into the prehistory of modern racialized thinking and racism. 

Across the 2020–2021 academic year, the Folger Institute will host a series of free online sessions to address an expansive range of topics in the field of early modern critical race studies. 

We strive to feature scholars who will write fuller histories of this transformative period that is early modernity, who will acknowledge deeper and more complex roots to enduring social challenges, and who will conduct more inclusive investigations of our contested pasts. We have much to learn.

Read more @Critical Race Conversations: Race and the Archive, @Critical Race Conversations

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