Professor Richard Yarborough, UCLA
In this presentation, Professor Yarborough (UCLA) examines the roots of ideas regarding alleged racial differences in the institution of chattel slavery. He also discusses how anti-black stereotypes grounded in justifications for slavery persisted in the United States after Emancipation.
Professor Richard Yarborough teaches and conducts research on a wide range of issues relating to African American literature and to U.S. literature and culture more broadly. His classes and scholarship focus on African American literature before World War I, the representation of slavery in American culture, black writers and radical politics in the U.S., and the construction of race in American film and popular music.
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Professor Yarborough on race as a social construct that has real-life impacts.
Professor Yarborough answers a student’s question on the phenomenon of racial passing.
Professor Yarborough on the notion of racial “pride”-that it should be understood as emerging from internal and external forces.
Professor Yarborough’s thoughts on student’s question about how to change racist thinking.