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In the year that we commemorate the 400th anniversary of the beginning of African enslavement in U.S. history, the annual Graduate School of Education Dean’s Forum will feature Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times best-selling author; 2016 National Book Award Winner in Nonfiction; Professor of History and International Relations and the Founding Director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University.
Kendi will be the featured speaker in a talk that will draw on his research and arguments from his award-winning book, Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, and his upcoming book, How To Be An Anti-Racist.
After his talk, he will be joined in conversation by john a. powell, Professor of Law and African American and Ethnic Studies and Director of the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society; Lisa García Bedolla, GSE Professor and Director of the Institute for Government Studies; and Dan Perlstein, GSE Professor and education historian. GSE Dean Prudence L. Carter will moderate.
Read more about Dr. Kendi and the panelists.
This event is co-sponsored by the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society (HIFIS); and the Department of African American Studies.
The Dean's Forum is free and open to the public. RSVP requested, but not required. For more information, send an e-mail to gsedeanevents@berkeley.edu.
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