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Conversations on the Commons: Critical Race Theory (A Primer)
November 12, 2021 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am
Critical Race Theory: A Primer for Historical Organizations
November 12, 2021, 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
With Julia Jeffries, Ph.D. Candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and Meadow Dibble, Founding Director of Atlantic Black Box
You’ve probably heard about Critical Race Theory in the news lately, but do you know what it is? Have you addressed it at your museum or historic site? Should you? Do you know how to? What is the difference between Critical Race Theory and African American History? As museums are reimagining their roles and messages in the wake of social, economic, and political changes, join us for a primer on Critical Race Theory and see how to incorporate this work into your own.
Registration is free. REGISTER HERE!
This Conversation will be livestreamed. We will do our best to monitor your questions and comments during the livestream. A recording will be publicly available in the Conversations on the Commons Archive.
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- Meadow Dibble is the Founding Director of Atlantic Black Box, a public history project devoted to researching and reckoning with New England’s role in the slave trade and the economy of enslavement. Currently a Visiting Scholar at Brown University’s Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, she received her PhD from Brown’s Department of French with a focus on Postcolonial Studies and taught Francophone African literature at Colby College from 2005–08. Originally from Cape Cod, Meadow lived for six years on Senegal’s Cape Verde peninsula prior to pursuing her graduate studies; there she published a cultural magazine and coordinated foreign study programs. In collaboration with the team that produces Teaching Hard History, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s flagship podcast, she is currently producing “The Diseased Ship Podcast” with support from the Maine Humanities Council.
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- Julia Jeffries (she/they) is a Ph.D. candidate in Culture, Institutions, and Society at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her work lies at the intersection of race and identity in K-12 classrooms in both students and teachers. She seeks to use sociological and cultural frameworks to understand how schools can foster student racial and ethnic identity development, help students understand histories of both oppression and resistance, and the pivotal role that teachers and their own understandings of identity play in these processes.
Questions? Be in touch with Caroline Littlewood: commons@masshistoryalliance.org
Conversations on the Commons
Where people from Massachusetts history organizations get to vent, empathize, laugh, complain, think, collaborate, brainstorm, plan, and in general be up to no good.