Original Sins: The (Mis)Education of Black and Native Children

This is an exciting in-person event where you can join Eve L. Ewing in coversation with Jodi Byrd for a discussion about Ewing's latest book, Original Sins, The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism. The event will take place at the Regenstein Library in room 122. Don't miss this opportunity to dive into thought-provoking conversations and gain insights from this incredible author!

Pre-reception 5:30PM

Talk begins 6:00-7:30 PM

Co-sponsored by the Black Metropolis Researh Consortium, Department of Race, Diaspora and Indigeniety, the Office of the Vice Provost for Diversity and Inclusion, and The Joseph Regenstein Library.

Eve L. Ewing

Eve L. Ewing, a lifelong Chicagoan, is a writer and scholar who uses multi-genre storytelling, tools of sociological inquiry, archives, and community-grounded epistemologies to interrogate racialized histories and imagine emancipatory possibilities. Working through the lenses of Afrofuturism, Black feminism, and Du Boisian sociology, Prof. Ewing attempts to situate cultural organizing, the praxis of care, and relational accountability at the foundations of her scholarship. A former public school teacher, she is particularly interested in the role of schools as social institutions and in the ways that schools can construct, normalize, and reinforce forms of social inequality, the ways that educational inequities reflect social cruelties beyond the walls of the school building, as well as, conversely, the still-lingering possibility that educational spaces can be sites of joy and liberation.Prof. Ewing currently serves as the Director for Undergraduate Studies. She loves teaching, baking, videogames, and her family.

Jodi Byrd

Professor Byrd’s research focuses on indigenous studies, indigenous feminist and queer studies, and video game studies.

Their 2011 book The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism (University of Minnesota Press) won the 2011 Best First Book of the Year award from the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, and the 2012 Wordcraft Circle Award for Academic Work of the Year. Byrd also co-edits the Northwestern University Press’ Critical Insurgencies series.Prior to joining the University of Chicago, they were a Professor of Literatures in English at Cornell University. Byrd earned their PhD in English Literature from the University of Iowa in 2002.

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