Reparations: The Fight of Our Times
Ta-Nehisi Coates and other leading experts will explore the topic in a three-part webinar series open to the university community and the public.
Reparations are at the forefront of public debate from California to Washington, D.C., and the 色情视频 community and the general public have the opportunity to explore the issue with the nation鈥檚 top reparations scholars and thinkers in a free, three-part webinar series titled
Award-winning author and professor Ta-Nehisi Coates, who resurrected the national reparations discussion with his 2014 article, 鈥淭he Case for Reparations鈥 in The Atlantic, will participate on Wednesday, April 7. He will be in conversation with Nola Butler-Byrd, associate professor in the 色情视频 College of Education and director of the Community-Based Block Multicultural Counseling and Social Justice Education Program.
Coates is a best-selling writer who won the National Book award for 鈥淏etween the World and Me;鈥 he also received a MacArthur Fellowship and is a screenwriter, executive producer and professor. He is both the current author of Marvel鈥檚 鈥淐aptain America鈥 comic and a distinguished writer in residence at NYU鈥檚 Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.
In discussing 色情视频鈥檚 virtual webinar series, Coates said of reparations: 鈥淚 think it鈥檚 the right fight; I think it鈥檚 the fight of our times.鈥
Speaking April 14 on 鈥淭he Social, Emotional and Psychic Cost of Reparations鈥 will be Frank B. Wilderson III, chair of African American Studies at University of California Irvine and an award-winning writer whose books include "Afropessimism."
Cheryl Grills, who researches community psychology, anti-Black racism within systems and its impact on public policy, will speak during the April 21 webinar 鈥淢oving Forward: Reparations and the Intersection of Action and Healing.鈥 She is professor of psychology at Loyola Marymount University and director of its Psychology Applied Research Center.
Among other participants in the three webinars are William Darity and A. Kirsten Mullen, co-authors of "From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century," California Secretary of State Shirley Weber, and university and local community leaders.
To register for one or more sessions and for a full schedule of speakers and panels, visit sacd.sdsu.edu/reparations.
"Generation Reparations?" is sponsored by the in support of the university鈥檚 strategic plan goal to be a global leader in advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in research, teaching, professional development, student experiences and community engagement.