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Blogs Cliopatria Jim Campbell: Universities Confronting Their Racial Histories

Mar 30, 2009

Jim Campbell: Universities Confronting Their Racial Histories

by Cliopatria

The History News Network recorded this video of Jim Campbell's talk at the annual meeting of the Organization of American Historians on March 28, 2009 in Seattle, WA.

The title of his panel: Universities Confronting Their Racial Histories: Slavery, Jim Crow and Unsettled Accounts. Mr. Campbell teaches at Stanford. Formerly he taught at Brown, the subject of his talk.