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February 2018
SSJ Tweet Chat: #SSJ Resist
Join scholars and activists committed to social justice in this first SSJ Tweet Chat! Use the hashtag #SSJResist to follow along, ask and answer questions.
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The Politics of Race in a Global Perspective: A Symposium in Honor of Mark Q. Sawyer
The Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture (CSRPC) and the Center for International Social Science Research (CISSR) at the University of Chicago invite you to attend a memorial symposium honoring the life and work of Professor Mark Q. Sawyer (PhD’99, 1972-2017). Also supported by the International House Global Voices Program. Click here for a full schedule and to RSVP.
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May 2018
August 2019
Rethinking Racial Justice in the Wake of Obama and the Era of Trump
A two-day gathering to contemplate the changes and the politics emerging and needed in this moment.
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Reparations and Higher Education
Here at Scholars for Social Justice, we believe that one way of deepening the debate about reparations is to proliferate the sites where claims of repair might be made. As academics, we have been particularly concerned to highlight the role reparations can play in universities and colleges. While universities are often viewed as ivory towers, far from everyday politics, the university is both deeply embedded in structures of racial hierarchy and inequality and remains a crucial site for reimagining education…
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