This excerpt is from "Identity, Justice, and the Future of Race," a discussion featuring Barbara J. Fields (Columbia University) and Derik Smith (Claremont McKenna College), moderated by Shahrzad Sabet and Benjamin Schewel. It was part of the "Identity and Belonging in a Global Age" series, sponsored by the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University, and the Center on Modernity in Transition (COMIT).
Racecraft and the 1619 Project
Historian Barbara J. Fields explains why you can't understand what happened in 1619 without understanding what happened in 1607.