Talks at the Schomburg: Slavery, Universities, Inner Cities

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The Schomburg Center’s Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery presents this installment of Talks at the Schomburg with scholars and historians Craig Wilder and Davarian L. BaldwinThey will discuss the role of slavery in the building and functioning of many of the country’s most revered colleges and universities; and how, today, some institutions of higher learning are transforming urban America by continually expanding their real estate holdings, spearheading gentrification, and offering low-wage labor to inner-city residents.

 

Craig Wilder is a professor of American history at MIT. He is the author of A Covenant with Color: Race and Social Power in Brooklyn (2000), In The Company of Black Men: The African Influence on African American Culture in New York City (2001) and Ebony and Ivy (2013). He was awarded The University Medal of Excellence by Columbia University in 2004.

Davarian L. Baldwin is a historian, cultural critic, and social theorist of urban America. His work largely examines the landscape of global cities through the lens of the African Diasporic experience. Baldwin is the author of Chicago’s New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, and Black Urban Life (UNC, 2007) and co-editor, with Minkah Makalani, of the essay collection Escape from New York! The New Negro Renaissance Beyond Harlem (Minnesota, 2013). 

Presented by the Schomburg Center’s Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Trans-Atlantic Slavery.

 

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