Aptos Community Reads presents: White Freedom: The Racial History of an Idea Presented by: Tyler Stovall, Dean of Humanities, University of California, Santa Cruz The relationship between freedom and race has […]
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Event Recaps Freedom and Race Mellon
30 January 2018 / 21 May 2020 by Arianna | Leave a Comment
On January 30th, 2018 The Humanities Institute hosted the fourth Questions That Matter event on the theme of “Freedom and Race” for a capacity crowd at Kuumbwa Jazz Center. The […]
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Seventy-five years ago, Executive Order 9066 paved the way to the profound violation of constitutional rights that resulted in the forced incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans. “And Then They Came […]
6:00pm – doors open | 6:30pm – program begins Fifty years ago, countries and cities around the globe erupted with protests and revolutionary movements demanding change and seeking to create […]
Freedom and Race News
17 January 2018 / 5 April 2018 by Adam Jacobson | Leave a Comment
Tyler Stovall is a distinguished professor of history and Dean of Humanities at UCSC, as well as the current president of the American Historical Association. His work centers on questions […]
Freedom and Race Grants Mellon
16 December 2017 / 9 April 2020 by Whitney DeVos | Leave a Comment
The project includes a two-part humanities initiative that is designed to support doctoral student success for students from diverse backgrounds, and to expand the impact of the campus’s public humanities “Questions That Matter” outreach program.
America has famously been called “the land of the free,” and yet when the “Star Spangled Banner” was written, people of African descent were enslaved within its borders, including by […]
