Original Sins: The [Mis]Education of Black and Native Youth and the Construction of American Racism
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https://health.oregonstate.edu/hallie-ford/campbell-lecture-series/20232023 Campbell Lecture Series on Childhood Relationships, Risk and Resilience
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Speaker
Eve L. Ewing, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity
Division of Social Sciences
University of Chicago
https://eveewing.com/
Dr. Eve L. Ewing is a writer, scholar, and cultural organizer from Chicago. She is the award-winning author of four books: the poetry collections Electric Arches and 1919, the nonfiction work Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side, and a novel for young readers, Maya and the Robot. She is the co-author (with Nate Marshall) of the play No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks. She has written several projects for Marvel Comics, most notably the Ironheart series, and is currently writing Black Panther. Ewing is an associate professor in the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity at the University of Chicago. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and many other venues. Currently she is working on her next book, Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism, which will be published by One World.