On February 24, 2021, IU’s Global Gateway network hosted a student-centered conversation on race in America with an international perspective. Following on the discussion with Isabel Wilkerson, the acclaimed author of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, three Indiana University graduate students will discuss Wilkerson’s work, as well as their own research and insights into race and racism in the United States.
Moderator:
Monica Johnson, Assistant VP for Diversity Education
Panelists:
Sydney-Paige Patterson, PhD student in History
Kennedi Johnson, PhD student in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Kasha Appleton, PhD student in History
Concluding remarks:
Lemuel Watson, Associate VP for DEMA
If you were unable to attend the live event with Isabel Wilkerson on February 17, watch the video recording (available until March 3).
Suggested Readings
Based on requests, the panel was kind enough to share these suggestions for further readings:
- Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
- Calvin Warren, Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and
Emancipation
- Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
- Hortense J. Spillers, Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American
Grammar Book
- Imani Perry, Vexy Thing: On Gender and Liberation
- James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
- Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black
liberation
- Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, How We Get Free: Black Feminism and
the Combahee River Collective
- Martin Luther King, Jr., Why We Can’t Wait
- Nico Slate, Black Power Beyond Borders: The Global
Dimensions of the Black Power Movement
- Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness,
and the Politics of Empowerment
- Robin D.G. Kelley, Freedom Dreams: the Black Radical
Imagination
- Saidiya Hartman, Venus in Two Acts
- Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful
Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
