The Military and Civil Rights
Join the Klau Center for Civil and Human Rights as Rawn James, Jr., author of The Double V: How Wars, Protest and Harry Truman Desegregated America's Military, explores race in the US military.
Meet the Speaker: Rawn James, Jr.
A graduate of Yale University and Duke University School of Law, Rawn James, Jr. has practiced law for two decades in Washington, D.C., where he lives with his wife and their two sons. He is the author of Root and Branch: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall and the Struggle to End Segregation and The Double V: How Wars, Protest and Harry Truman Desegregated America’s Military.
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Monday, January 29, 2024 8:00 am
The opposite of racist isn’t ‘not racist.’ It is ‘antiracist.’ What’s the difference?
Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist
One endorses either the idea of a racial hierarchy as a racist, or racial equality as an antiracist. One either believes problems are rooted in groups of people, as a racist, or locates the roots of problems in power and policies, as an antiracist. One either allows racial inequities to persevere, as a racist, or confronts racial inequities, as an antiracist. There is no in-between safe space of ‘not racist.’
The Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights presents Building an Anti-Racist Vocabulary, a podcast from the lecture series and associated course presenting preeminent scholars, thought leaders, and public intellectuals to guide our community through topics necessary to an understanding of systemic racism and racial justice. The series is self-consciously an entry point, designed to provide intellectual and moral building blocks to begin the transformative work of anti-racism in our students, on our campus, and in our broader communities.
Join the Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights as Rawn James, Jr., author of The Double V: How Wars, Protest and Harry Truman Desegregated America’s Military, explores race in the US military.
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View EventRecommended Resources
Rawn James, Jr. recommends the following if you would like to learn more:
Book: The Known World by Edward P. Jones
Film: Do the Right Thing, directed by Spike Lee
For more resources from Building an Anti-Racist Vocabulary, please visit their Hesburgh Library Guide.