Category: Race

Reflecting on Charlottesville

  The University of Oregon and the University of Virginia are not as far away, both geographically and politically, as one might think. Both are liberal campuses within liberal, democratic, Bernie-voting enclaves. We have every reason to believe that white…

Rinku Sen talks about the racial justice movement

Pictured is Rinku Sen.

June 6, 2017—Students, faculty, staff, and community members packed the UO Knight Library Browsing Room to hear Rinku Sen talk about “The Big Picture: Structural Racism, Equity & Intersectionality.” This was Professor Dan HoSang’s final event in the “Imagining Freedom…

Rinku Sen, “The Big Picture: Structural Racism, Equity & Intersectionality”

Browsing Room Knight Library 1501 Kincaid St. UO campus Printable Poster PDF “The Big Picture: Structural Racism, Equity & Intersectionality” Imagining Freedom Teach-In Series Rinku Sen, president and executive director of Race Forward: The Center for Racial Justice Innovation and…

Historians shed light on private life of American “Patriarch” Thomas Jefferson

“Most Blessed of the Patriarchs”: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination The Oregon Humanities Center is honored to host two of America’s leading Jefferson scholars for this spring’s O’Fallon Lecture in Law and American Culture: Annette Gordon-Reed, Charles…

Transformative Times

Panelist speak at the Transformative Philanthropy forum.

Dear Friends, Champions, Supporters, and Colleagues of the Center for the Study of Women in Society, We have tried to write this statement countless times over the past two weeks since a law professor wore blackface at her Halloween party.…