Peniel E. Joseph: 2023 Hatfield Lecture
Peniel E. Joseph, founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the University of Texas at Austin, will drop by Portland for a lecture on his book The Third Reconstruction, which posits that the racial justice activism of 2020 has "marked the climax of a Third Reconstruction." Translation: Joseph will interpret recent events as integral to civil rights history, making connections across time to link the meteoric rise of Black Lives Matter to Obama's election and the January 6 US Capitol attack.
by Lindsay Costello