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ARHU Dean's Colloquium Series On Race, Equity and Justice, Featuring Christopher Bonner

Wednesday, October 27, 2021 - 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM

The College of Arts and Humanities (ARHU) at the University of Maryland continues its successful Dean's Colloquium Series on Race, Equity and Justice, a colloquium and conversation series hosted by Dean Bonnie Thornton Dill. The series, which began in 2020, seeks to introduce audiences to faculty expertise on issues of systemic racism, inequality and social justice, and continues this year with a focus on the impacts of systemic racism on Asian, Jewish, Black, LGBTQ+, Arab and Muslim populations in the U.S. The events are free and take place virtually.

This first colloquium features Prof. Christopher Bonner. Dr. Bonner will be discussing his award-winning book Remaking the Republic: Black Politics and the Creation of American Citizenship in a talk entitled "Willis Hodges's Shield: The Meanings of Black Voters." Prof. Bonner's engaging work shows how Black Americans suffered under, but also exploited, uncertainties in the American definitions of citizenship and used this ambiguity to claim legal rights and forge the very meaning of citizenship in the young United States. His work was recently recognized with the James H. Broussard First Book Prize from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. 

Dr. Bonner is associate professor in the Department of History and specializes in African American history and the nineteenth-century United States. He is currently at work on a project considering how enslaved people navigated commercial networks as they sought to purchase freedom in the early nineteenth century. His work has appeared in the collection New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition and Emancipations, Reconstructions, and Revolutions. He has also written for Muster, the blog of the Journal of the Civil War Era and Black Perspectives, the blog for the African American Intellectual History Society. 

This Dean's Colloquium Series on Race, Equity and Justice is an ARHU Terrapin Strong event.

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This talk will be recorded and archived for future viewing on our website.

For more information, please contact Ashley Richerson Miller at arichers@umd.edu