Dr. Eve L. Ewing
Associate Professor, Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity University of Chicago

Working through the lenses of Afrofuturism, Black feminism, and Du Boisian sociology, Dr. Ewing attempts to situate cultural organizing, the praxis of care, and relational accountability at the foundations of her scholarship. A former public school teacher, she is particularly interested in the role of schools as social institutions and in the ways that schools can construct, normalize and reinforce forms of social inequality, the ways that educational inequities reflect social cruelties beyond the walls of the school building, as well as, conversely, the still-lingering possibility that educational spaces can be sites of joy and liberation. 

In this talk, Dr. Ewing will discuss her newest book, Original Sins, which examines how the U.S. school system has played an instrumental role in creating and upholding racial hierarchies, preparing children to expect unequal treatment throughout their lives.