Arsalan Iftikhar: Combating fear of a Muslim planet
Arsalan Iftikhar, AB ’99, JD ’03, has spent his career speaking out against Islamophobia. In his new book, “Fear of a Muslim Planet,” he writes that the need to stand against hate is more urgent than ever.
Acts of love and resistance
Segregation has shaped St. Louis as surely as the waters of the Mississippi River. In “The Material World of Modern Segregation: St. Louis in the Long Era of Ferguson,” 18 scholars follow that troubled course through physical traces, oral histories, fragmented communities and continuing grassroot struggles.
Davis, Maragh-Lloyd discuss legacy of Ebony and Jet Feb. 17
Washington University’s Adrienne Davis and Raven Maragh-Lloyd will take part in a panel discussion, co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity, about the historic legacy of Ebony and Jet magazines Feb. 17 at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.
Art of Protest
Creating, Discovering, and Activating Art for Your Revolution
From Keith Haring to Extinction Rebellion, the civil rights movement to Black Lives Matter, what does a revolution look like? Discover the power of words and images in this thought-provoking look at protest art by highly acclaimed artivist De Nichols. From the psychedelic typography used in “Make Love Not War” posters of the ’60s to […]
Indigenous and Black Confraternities in Colonial Latin America
Negotiating Status through Religious Practices
Employing a transregional and interdisciplinary approach, this volume explores indigenous and black confraternities –or lay Catholic brotherhoods– founded in colonial Spanish America and Brazil between the sixteenth and eighteenth century. It presents a varied group of cases of religious confraternities founded by subaltern subjects, both in rural and urban spaces of colonial Latin America, to […]
Goldbach awarded $3.2 million grant for research on LGBTQ youth
Jeremy Goldbach, professor at the Brown School, has received a five-year $3.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a project aimed at making schools safer for LGBTQ+ youth.
Study highlights opportunities to improve health outcomes for non-English speakers
A survey of health-care providers reveals challenges communicating and sharing information about COVID-19 with patients whose primary language in not English.
How do we build a healthy and vibrant civic community?
There is no doubt that we are experiencing a time of immense sociocultural upheaval
and division in the United States. Our podcast, “This Civic Moment,” explores how we
can come through it together.
Washington University partners with Sheldon for Whitaker World Music Series
Afrobeat, Spanish dance, Ukrainian multi-instrumentalists and contemporary Son jarocho and Afro-Mexican music. Next spring, WashU’s Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity (CRE2) and Department of Music will partner with The Sheldon to present the fourth annual Whitaker World Music Series.
Washington University Review of Philosophy launches
The Washington University Review of Philosophy, a new annual journal of professional philosophy edited by undergraduate students, has published its inaugural issue.
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