Deborah E. McDowell's guest appearances

Deborah E. McDowell

Carter G. Woodson Institute

Barack Obama

Michael Dawson

Jim Crow

Alex Johnson

Rick Turner

Dion Lewis

Frank Dukes

James Bundy

Emma Edmunds

Mary Pattillo

Camisha Jones

Sabrina Pendergrass

Kristin Szakos

Hodari Hamilton

Susan Fraiman

OwlTail

“Does Reparations Have a Future? Rethinking Racial Justice in a ‘Color-Blind’ Era,” was a multi-disciplinary symposium that took place on March 21-22, 2013.  Organized by Deborah McDowell (Alice Griffin Professor of English and Director of the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies), Kim Forde-Mazrui (William S. Potter Professor of Law), and Lawrie Balfour (Professor of Politics), the symposium is organized around four sessions—“Reparations in Historical Frame,” “Reparations and the University,” “Reparations and the Nation,” “Reparations around the Globe.”  Panelists will examine the range of meanings, questions, controversies, and aspirations the term “reparations” has elicited historically and will explore among other topics, the cultural, legal, economic, and political legacies of slavery and Jim Crow.

Opening Remarks for Panel One: Deborah E. McDowell