Donald Yacovone, a researcher at Harvard, is joined by Eddie Glaude Jr., professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, to discuss his new book "Teaching White Supremacy."
Sifting through a wealth of materials, from primary readers to college textbooks and other higher-ed course materials and from the colonial era to today, Donald Yacovone reveals the systematic ways in which white supremacist ideology has infiltrated American culture and how it has been at the heart of our collective national identity.
The author argues that it is the North, not the South, that bears the greater responsibility for creating the dominant strain of race theory, inculcated throughout the culture and in school textbooks, that restricted and repressed African Americans and other minorities, even as Northerners blamed the South for its legacy of slavery, segregation and racial injustice.
About the Speakers:
Donald Yacovone is a lifetime associate at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, the author or editor of 11 books, the winner (with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.) of an NAACP Image Award for "The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross" in 2014, and a recipient of the W.E.B.Du Bois Medal from Harvard University in 2013.
Eddie Glaude is a passionate educator, author, political commentator, and public intellectual who examines the complex dynamics of the American experience. His influential books include "Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Sou"l;" In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America"; and "Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for our Own"
This event is part of joint programming between the library and Labyrinth Books and is cosponsored by Princeton University’s African American Studies Department and Humanities Council.