Diversity Lecture Series - How to be Anti-Racist | Office of Veteran and Military Programs and Services

Date

Friday, February 26, 2021 - 4:00pm

Event Location

Zoom

Rutgers University Office of Veteran and Military Programs and Services:

Diversity, Inclusion and Equity Speaker Series

How to Be Anti-Racist

with President Jonathan Holloway

Feb 26, 2021 04:00 PM Eastern Time

The objective of the speaker series is to increase understanding around diversity, inclusion, and equity and inspire the military affiliated population at Rutgers to continue service as advocates and leaders for change.

Jonathan Holloway, a U.S. historian, took office as the 21st president of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, on July 1, 2020. He also serves as a University Professor and Distinguished Professor.

President Holloway’s scholarly work specializes in post-emancipation U.S. history with a focus on social and intellectual history.

He is the author of The Cause of Freedom: A Concise History of African Americans (Oxford University Press, February 2021) as well as Confronting the Veil: Abram Harris Jr., E. Franklin Frazier, and Ralph Bunche, 1919-1941 (2002), and Jim Crow Wisdom: Memory and Identity in Black America Since 1940 (2013), the latter two published by the University of North Carolina Press. He edited Ralph Bunche’s A Brief and Tentative Analysis of Negro Leadership (New York University Press, 2005) and coedited Black Scholars on the Line: Race, Social Science, and American Thought in the Twentieth Century (Notre Dame University Press, 2007). He wrote the introduction for the 2015 edition of W.E.B. Du Bois’s Souls of Black Folk (Yale University Press), and is working on a new book, A History of Absence: Race and the Making of the Modern World.

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