Racism

In “Heavyweight: Black Boxers and the Fight for Representation,” Jordana Moore Saggese, art history professor and director of the David C. Driskell Center, examines artistic depictions of Black boxers from the 19th through 21st centuries, revealing how their renderings reflected and reinforced stereotypes about Black men’s physicality, celebrity, power and place in the United States.
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Henry Willis, and assistant professor in the Department of Psychology, awarded over $250K to create a free mobile application that helps Black teens cope with racism and common mental health problems.

Dean Stephanie Shonekan (ARHU) co-authors new book about confronting racism in America.