When:
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
12:15 PM - 2:00 PM CT
Where: Rebecca Crown Center, HARDIN HALL, 633 Clark Street, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Elzbieta Foeller-Pituch
(847) 467-0885
Group: Center for Historical Studies
Co-Sponsor:
Center for African American History (CAAH)
Category: Academic
Ibram KENDI (American University), author of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (2016) and How to be an Antiracist (2019
Lunch lecture (12:15 to 1:50 p.m.) on
• How To Be An Antiracist
When the first Black president headed into the White House, Americans were imagining their nation as colorblind and went so far as to call it post-racial. With the arrival of Donald Trump many people are awakening and seeing racial reality for the first time. With opened minds, people are actively trying to understand racism. In this deeply personal and empowering lecture, Kendi shifts the discussion from how not to be racist, to how to be an antiracist. He shares his own racist ideas and how he overcame them. He provides direction to people and institutions who want more than just band-aid programs, but actual antiracist action that builds an antiracist America.
Catered lunch starts 12:10, the lecture at abourt 12:30 p.m. Joint CCHS/CAAH Distinguished Lecture on African American History.