September 17, 2020
Ibram X. Kendi to give Dickinson's Annual Winfield C. Cook Constitution Day Address
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. According to Kendi, since the 2016 election, people are awakening and seeing racial reality for the first time. With opened minds, people are actively trying to understand racism. In this lecture, Kendi will shift the discussion from how not to be racist, to how to be an antiracist. He will share his own racist ideas and how he overcame them. He will provide direction to people and institutions who want more than just band-aid programs, but actual antiracist action that will build an antiracist America. This discussion-led presentation will be moderated by Vincent Stephens, director of Dickinson’s Popel Shaw Center for Race & Ethnicity. The program is sponsored by the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues and Penn State’s Dickinson Law and co-sponsored by the Popel Shaw Center for Race & Ethnicity, the Office of the Provost, the First Year Seminar Program, and Center for Spirituality & Social Justice, Vice President for Institutional Effectiveness, the Churchill Fund, and the departments of English, political science, history, sociology, and American studies. It is also part of the Clarke Forum’s Leadership in an Age of Uncertainty Series. For more information and link to the livestream visit the website.
Further information
- Location: Online
- Time: 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
- Cost: Free