Racial Paradox of the Twin Cities

Name: Racial Paradox of the Twin Cities
Start: 2021-11-20T10:00:00+00:00
End: 2021-11-20T11:30:00+00:00
Location: via Zoom

Organizer: James Brewer Stewart

Date: Nov 20, 2021

Time: 10:00 am - 11:30 am

Location: via Zoom

Why has our famously liberal political culture been at the same time so brutally hard on minorities? Looking at wealth gaps, incarceration, life expectancy etc. we vie with Mississippi, How to explain how the land of Humphry, Mondale, Wellstone, Gene McCarthy has turned out to treat dark skinned people the way it has?

Answers date back to pre-Civil war days and have much to do with Swedes, Germans and Irish immigrants as well as Indian removal and the “great migration” of Black people from the South.

James Brewer Stewart is a Professor of History Emeritus at Macalester College, author of books on abolitionists, slavery, and racism, and Founder of Historians Against Slavery.