Visiting Faculty Scholars of Color Lecture Series ft. Craig Steven Wilder

Posted by University of Pennsylvania on January 29, 2012

January 31,2018

12:00 – 1:15 pm

3700 Walnut St, Room 203

Short Description: Craig Steven Wilder is a professor of history at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Wilder’s most recent book, Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities argues that the nation’s early colleges were dependent on wealth accrued from slavery and played a major role in the extermination of indigenous populations and the enslavement of people of African descent.

Event Type, Audience, and Location: Lecture, open to all, on campus.

For more information visit http://www.gse.upenn.edu/news/penn-gse-announces-10th-visiting-scholars-color-lecture-series


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