David Roediger, "Thinking Through Slavery..."

Full Title: David Roediger, "Thinking Through Slavery: From the General Strike of the Slaves to the Fight Against Brown 3"

"Race Today: A Symposium on Race in America" brought a group of the nation’s most respected intellectuals on race, racial theory and racial inequality together to consider the troubling state of black life in America today. What are the broader structural factors that shape race today? How do these factors work on the ground and institutionally and what are the consequences? What are the ideas about race, and racial identities that enable the normalcy of stark racial differences today? In particular, what role do key ideas such as “colorblindness” and “post race” play in shaping perception and outcomes? What can be done to challenge ideological and structural impediments to a racially egalitarian society?

David Roediger is the Foundation Professor of American Studies at the University of Kansas. Roediger has written extensively on whiteness, on race in the U.S. as well as on U.S. labor movements, the history of radicalism, and on the racial identities of white workers and of immigrants. His books include The Wages of Whiteness, Working Towards Whiteness, How Race Survived U.S. History, Towards the Abolition of Whiteness, Colored White and Towards Whiteness.

Friday, February 27, 2015
Brown University
Presented by the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America (CSREA) and the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice.
Co-sponsored by the Office of the President and the Office of Institutional Diversity.

For more information: http://www.brown.edu/academics/race-ethnicity/events/2015/02/race-today-symposium-race-america

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