The Center for “Race,” Culture and Social Justice at Hofstra University

The Center for "Race," Culture and Social Justice's Advisory Board member, Professor Lisa Merrill, from the Department of Writing Studies and Rhetoric, will be one of the keynote speakers at the International Conference on Gender, 'Race' and Performance: Re-Visiting the Black Atlantic, to be held at the University of Liverpool on June 11 and 12, 2019.  Please click on the link below for further details on the Conference program: https://ibaruclan.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Liverpool-poster.pdf

The Center for “Race,” Culture and Social Justice’s director, Dr. Jonathan Lightfoot, is heading home to Chicago to attend the inauguration of his cousin, Lori Lightfoot, as the new mayor of Chicago. She will succeed Rahm Emanuel, the former Chief of Staff for President Barack Obama. Lori Lightfoot will become the first Black woman to lead the third largest city in the United States. Let’s congratulate the Lightfoot family and wish the new Mayor much success in what promises to be her most challenging job yet. Chicago needs good leadership! https://lightfootforchicago.com/about-lori/ https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/5/17/18629933/at-black-womens-event-mayor-elect-lightfoot-offers-message-to-black-community

The Center for “Race,” Culture and Social Justice was inaugurated in 2017, aiming to promote and study questions of diversity and inclusion at Hofstra and beyond. The evidence of Hofstra’s prior challenge to attract and retain full-time tenure-track black faculty members, and other faculty of color, due to multiple factors, was included in the initial proposal to senior administration, which was submitted during AAUP contract negotiations; similar evidence regarding the paucity of administrators of color, particularly at the senior level, was addressed in the proposal. The Center’s core mission has also encompassed efforts to encourage faculty scholarship that features “race” as a central framework of analysis. It seeks to examine culture and social justice issues as they intersect with our understanding of how “race” and racism operate in oppressive institutional structures ( https://www.hofstra.edu/academics/race-culture-social-justice/about.html ). The Center has from the start

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