Original Sins: The (Mis)Education of Black and Native Children- April 29, 2025
April 11, 2025
The BMRC is honored to be a co-sponsor of this in-person event where you can join Eve L. Ewing in conversation with Jody Byrd for a discussion about Ewing’s latest book, Original Sins, The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism. The event will take place at the Regenstein Library in room 122.
Eve L. Ewing is the Director of Undergraduate Studies and an Associate Professor in the Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity. A lifelong Chicagoan, she is a writer and scholar who uses multi-genre storytelling, tools of sociological inquiry, archives, and community-grounded epistemologies to interrogate racialized histories and imagine emancipatory possibilities. Working through the lenses of Afrofuturism, Black feminism, and Du Boisian sociology, Prof. Ewing attempts to situate cultural organizing, the praxis of care, and relational accountability at the foundations of her scholarship. Dr. Ewing is the bestselling author of the books Original Sins Electric Arches, Ghosts in the Schoolyard, 1919, and Maya and the Robot.
Pre-reception: 5:30 PM
Book Talk: 6:00-7:30 PM