For nearly 50 years, Dean Anderson has studied how race, ethnicity, and cultural diversity have shaped American institutions, ideology, law, and society.
Dr. James Anderson is the Dean of the College of Education as well as a Professor of Education and an affiliate Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
Below, listen to the conversation or read the transcript, and hear Dean James Anderson’s thoughts on:
- The definition of institutional racism and examples, like education and housing segregation today (4:55)
- How not to lose hope when protesting injustice (6:47)
- The importance of Black Lives Matter (8:02)
- How to begin to dismantle systematic racism (9:49)
- The impact of voter ID laws and why voter ID laws hurt minorities (10:22)
- The 150th anniversary of the Fifteenth Amendment, discussing why it’s important and causes that made it happen (11:22)
- Historical methods used to disenfranchise black voters and voter disenfranchisement and suppression tactics in 2019 and 2020 (14:04)
- Benefits of making election day a national holiday (15:25)
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