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Slavery and the American university: discourses of retrospective justice at Harvard and Brown

Lindsey Walters, Apollo-University Of Cambridge Repository, Apollo-University Of Cambridge Repository
2017

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American universities have drawn international attention in recent years as their ties to and historical complicity in slavery and the slave trade have been increasingly exposed. This essay examines Harvard and Brown's self-reflective investigations into their involvement in slavery and highlights how the universities have deployed a discourse of retrospective justice as a way to grapple with the incorporation of the history of slavery into the heritage of their institutions. The essay finds
more » ... t by engaging in conversations about memorialization, apology, and reparations, the universities attempt to confront the past while constructing the future.
doi:10.17863/cam.10261 fatcat:o4au4pmzijdn7e7hsf4qw67gku
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Lindsey Walters, Apollo-University Of Cambridge Repository, Apollo-University Of Cambridge Repository. "Slavery and the American university: discourses of retrospective justice at Harvard and Brown." (2017)