Getting Beyond Racism?

Harvard FAS

Has America fundamentally turned the corner on a history of anti-Black racism? Or are the burdens of racial prejudice and discrimination a permanent injury in U.S. institutions, politics, and culture? We will tackle key debates on racism as a durable--or diminishing-- aspect of African American life experience. The center piece of our collective intellectual journey will be the scholarship of William Julius Wilson. Wilson stands as the most influential scholar of race in America for the…