On Thursday, Feb. 11 at 7 p.m. in the Severance Great Hall, Carleton College will host a lecture on the continued complexities and inequalities related to race in America, at a time when the nation’s first black presidency is coming to an end. Nationally renowned scholar and public intellectual, Eddie Glaude, Jr., Princeton University Professor of Religion and African American Studies, will speak about his newly published book, Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul (Crown Books, 2016), which has been featured on numerous national media outlets over the past month, including NPR, C-SPAN, and MSNBC. This appearance is free and open to the public.
The book has already been heralded as “a landmark book on race in America, one that promises to spark wide discussion,” especially in light of current national debates about police brutality, the Black Lives Matter movement, the Voting Rights Act, and economic inequality. His analysis focuses on values about race in America, and the subtle habits that shape each person’s choices and actions in regard to race. Glaude explores the ways these habits and values perpetuate racial injustice today.
“Glaude’s lecture will be a significant opportunity for us to think about how we can transform the nation, in the hope of racial justice, with one of the country’s leading public intellectuals writing on these issues,” said Kevin Wolfe, Robert A. Oden Jr. Postdoctoral Fellow for Innovation in the Humanities in Religion.
The Ian G. Barbour Lecture on Religion and Modernity was established by Carleton alumni and faculty in 2006. It was created to honor Professor Barbour’s commitment to understanding the relation between religion and science in the modern world, and to draw to campus on a regular basis scholars and thinkers whose work illuminates the implications of modern ideas and practices for religious people and contemporary society.
This event is sponsored by the Carleton College Department of Religion. For more information, including disability accommodations, call (507) 222-4232. Severance Great Hall is located off College Street on the Carleton campus.
