Noliwe Rooks: This is Not a Manifesto, but...: Higher Education at a Moment of Crisis

To celebrate Constitution Day during MICA’s Bicentennial year please join us for a lecture and discussion with Dr. Noliwe Rooks, L. Herbert Ballou University Professor, and Chair of Africana Studies at Brown University. Dr. Rooks is a multi-methods scholar whos award-winning work explores how education, beauty, race, and gender both impact and are impacted by popular culture, social history, and political life in the United States. Her lecture will discuss how we can use history as a guide to navigate the challenges facing higher education today. The author of six books and numerous articles, essays, and op-ed’s, Dr. Rook’s most recent book, Integrated: How Schools in America Failed Black Children, is about how the implementation of integration/desegregation strategies impacted Black children and communities, and explores four generations of her family history with education in the United States.