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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
3/1/2022
Building Racial Dialogue (and a Department) In a Time of Backlash
by Leora Auslander and Atom Getachew
When many stakeholders were inclined to suspicion or outright hostility, building an academic department to study race, ethnicity and migration required labor-intensive dialogue not to split the difference between opposing sides but to build a majority coaltion of support.
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