The Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights presents Building an Anti-Racist Vocabulary, presenting preeminent scholars, thought leaders, and public intellectuals to guide us through topics necessary to an understanding of systemic racism and racial justice. The series is self-consciously an entry point, designed to provide intellectual and moral building blocks to begin the transformative work of anti-racism.
The Klau Institute is an integral part of the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame.
Howard Bryant, senior writer for ESPN and author of The Heritage: Black Athletes, a Divided America, and the Politics of Patriotism, explores racial protest in the sports industry. Bryant has worked as reporter for the Washington Post and the Boston Herald, and is a prolific baseball writer on a variety of topics affecting the game. He also contributes to ESPN The Magazine, ESPN, and ESPN Radio.
22 Apr 2024
Mothers of the Civil Rights Movement
Anna Malaika Tubbs, advocate, educator, and author of The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr, Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation, explores how three extraordinary women influenced the history of civil rights in the US.
Anna Malaika Tubbs has written on topics ranging from the forced sterilization of Black women, the importance of feminism, intersectionality, and inclusivity. Her work has been featured in TIME Magazine, the Huffington Post, For Harriet, Darling Magazine, and Blavity.
26 Mar 2024
Ferguson
Wesley Lowery explores the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and the unrest that followed. Lowery is is a journalist at CBS News and author of They Can't Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America's Racial Justice Movement.
28 Feb 2024
The Racial Wealth Gap
Mehrsa Baradaran, professor of law at the University of California Irvine, explores the racial wealth gap. Professor Baradaran writes about banking law, financial inclusion, and inequality. Her scholarship includes The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap, which was awarded the Best Book of the Year by the Urban Affairs Association.
19 Feb 2024
Civil Rights and the Military
Rawn James, Jr., author of The Double V: How Wars, Protest and Harry Truman Desegregated America's Military, explores race in the US military.
A graduate of Yale University and Duke University School of Law, Rawn James, Jr. has practiced law for two decades in Washington, D.C. His previous books include Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall and the Struggle to End Segregation.
26 Jan 2024
The Use and Misuse of Civil Rights History
Jeanne Theoharis, Brooklyn College, explores how the civil rights movement has been misrepresented and compromised through myth-making. Theoharis is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and author of A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History.
29 Nov 2023
Voting Rights
Rick Hasen, Professor of Law and Political Science and Director of the Safeguarding Democracy Project at UCLA Law and author of Election Meltdown: Dirty Tricks, Distrust, and the Threat to American Democracy, discusses the dynamic challenges posed by battles to reshape election law.
23 Oct 2023
Anti-Immigrant Lawmaking
Robin Jacobson, professor and chair of politics and government, University of Puget Sound, and author of The New Nativism: Proposition 187 and the Debate over Immigration, explores anti-immigrant sentiment in lawmaking.
25 Sept 2023
Housing Segregation
Richard Rothstein, Distinguished Fellow at the Economic Policy Institute, explores the economic and historical foundations of segregated communities in the United States. He is the author of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, which recounts how federal, state, and local policy explicitly segregated metropolitan areas nationwide.
25 Aug 2023
Racial Justice and the Catholic Church
Fr. Bryan Massingale explores the Church's response to racism. Fr. Massingale holds the James and Nancy Buckman Chair in Applied Christian Ethics at Fordham University, and is the author of Racial Justice and the Catholic Church.
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