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Democracy in America @the Virtual NHFPL

A Collaboration between the NHFPL and Yale Public Humanities

2021-04-27 19:00:00 2021-04-27 20:00:00 America/New_York Democracy in America @the Virtual NHFPL “American Education and Domestic Imperialism” Virtual -

Tuesday, April 27
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Add to Calendar 2021-04-27 19:00:00 2021-04-27 20:00:00 America/New_York Democracy in America @the Virtual NHFPL “American Education and Domestic Imperialism” Virtual -

“American Education and Domestic Imperialism”

Khalil Johnson in Conversation with Matt Jacobson.
Part of the ongoing “Democracy in America” @ the NHFPL series 

Khalil Anthony Johnson, Jr., Assistant Professor of African American Studies at Wesleyan University specializes in the intertwined histories of the African diaspora and Indigenous people in North America, with emphases on U.S. settler colonialism, education, and counter-hegemonic social movements. While teaching elementary school on the Navajo Nation, he unwittingly joined a historic cohort of African Americans who taught in reservation boarding schools as employees of the Bureau of Indian Affairs during the civil rights era. In his current manuscript project, Schooled: The Education of Black and Indigenous People in the United States and Abroad, 1730-1980, Johnson historicizes the Post-War migration of hundreds of African American educators to Indian Country ultimately unearthed a colonial genealogy of four generations of social reformers, missionaries, philanthropists, activists, and teachers who, since the eighteenth century, have used schooling to reconcile the founding cataclysms of the United States––the ongoing presence of Indigenous nations, free black people, and non-white immigrants. The result is a dramatic and transnational reinterpretation of American education and its consequences for colonized peoples across the globe.

Login: Link to join Webinar April 27, 2021 @ 7:00 pm

https://yale.zoom.us/j/93711399355

For more info contact Seth Godfrey  

sgodfrey@nhfpl.org

203-946-7450

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The Ives Main Library, designed by renowned architect, Cass Gilbert in 1911, is a cornerstone of the historic New Haven Green. The facility is a community treasure and features unique design details, including several WPA-era murals. Ives is open 54 hours a week, Monday-Saturday, and houses major public service departments for children and teens as well as adult reference, a computer tech center and Ives Squared, a newly renovated space for innovation and entrepreneurship.

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