Jaskiran Dhillon Archives - Public Seminar

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Seeking Illumination in Dark Times

On the power of art, race and racism, and the limitations of science and politics

September 7, 2018 • by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

Reading our series on the arts, provides some hope in our dark times, on this cloudy and humid Friday afternoon in New York. I have long believed that the key to liberation is illumination, that we have to see the ways things are, and see how things might possibly change, ...

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What Must Be Done With Sovereignty?

Rejecting Recognition and the Ruse of Participation

September 7, 2018 • by Sandra Harvey

Race/isms Book Forum is a new series aimed at bringing established and emerging voices together in conversation around recent work that critically engages our world’s racial scripts, past and present. The structure of the forum is straightforward. We invite three to four thinkers to grapple with a book, highlighting a ...

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Sovereign (In)capacity

Possibilities of Black and Indigenous Futures

September 6, 2018 • by Shanya Cordis

Race/isms Book Forum is a new series aimed at bringing established and emerging voices together in conversation around recent work that critically engages our world’s racial scripts, past and present. The structure of the forum is straightforward. We invite three to four thinkers to grapple with a book, highlighting a ...

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We Will Not Abandon You

Urban Indigenous Youth and the Struggle for Decolonization

September 5, 2018 • by Melanie Yazzie

Race/isms Book Forum is a new series aimed at bringing established and emerging voices together in conversation around recent work that critically engages our world’s racial scripts, past and present. The structure of the forum is straightforward. We invite three to four thinkers to grapple with a book, highlighting a ...