How has the development of American democracy accepted and even relied on the reality of American racism? Is it possible for American democracy to move beyond what feels like an insurmountable racial division and acrimony? Humanities New York and the Buffalo Humanities Festival explored these questions and more with Ibram X. Kendi & Chenjerai Kumanyika on September 19th, 2019.
Kendi is one of America’s foremost historians and leading antiracist voices. He is a New York Times bestselling author and the Founding Director of The Antiracist Research & Policy Center at American University in Washington D.C., where he is Professor of History and International Relations. He is the author of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction, and of the recently published How to Be an Antiracist.
Kumanyika is a researcher, journalist, and artist who works as an assistant professor in Rutgers University’s Department of Journalism and Media Studies. His research and teaching focus on the intersections of social justice and emerging media in the cultural and creative industries. Kumanyika is Co-Executive Producer and Co-Host of Gimlet Media’s Uncivil, an award-winning podcast about the Civil War.
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