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Unpacking Our History Lecture – Eugenics After Slavery
Eugenicists’ study of mixed race people with Black and white ancestry did not emerge in a vacuum. Slavery not only gave rise to myths about mixed...
Unpacking Our History Lecture: Disease, Slavery, and Politics in New Orleans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1uS1r6zk7s Antebellum New Orleans sat at the heart of America’s slave and cotton kingdoms. But it was also the...
What Modern Medicine Gained from Slavery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOM03Nr__n8 Medical science in antebellum America was a paradox: it presumed African Americans to be less than human...
Problems in Police Training with Jessica Katzenstein
Drawing on 16 months of ethnographic research with police officers in Maryland, Jessica Katzenstein explores how physical and virtual scenario trainings shape and inform police “common sense” tactics.
Holocaust and Slavery Reparations with Thomas Craemer
Professor Thomas Craemer grew up in post-World War II Germany. One day, he met a Holocaust survivor who had retired from Israel to Germany of all places. For four decades, Mieciu Langer had received a reparations pension from the (West) German government. If reparations have the power to bring about reconciliation in this case, then reparations from the US Government to the Black descendants of the formerly enslaved might bring about racial reconciliation in the United States as well.
Unpacking Our History Lecture Series: Why Ban Books? Understanding the Discourse of Censorship and Its Effects
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NALfy_gxo2k Many attempts to ban books in schools and libraries have made headlines over the past few months. Almost...
Unpacking 1619 History Lecture: Weaponized Whiteness and Gun Violence with Fran Shor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESU2EMKAM8A Why does the United States have so much gun violence and why is it so difficult to overcome? Obviously,...