Evanston
has commenced reparations. Northwestern Professor kihana miraya ross has
received a Spencer grant to study having educational reparations to repair
historic educational injustice in Evanston.
“‘In recognizing the debt owed to its Black residents
and pledging actual dollars towards repairing centuries of educational inequities,
Evanston is in unchartered waters. The world will be watching as the first city
in the U.S. to approve reparations embarks on an unparalleled move toward
educational justice for its Black residents,’” said Ross, describing the moment
as an unprecedented research opportunity. The project will inform Ross’s second
book and may be the subject of a feature-length documentary”. Northwestern Now
(9/1/21)
Professor Ross is the author of “Anti-Blackness in education and the possibilities of
redress: Towards educational reparations.” Amerikastudiem/American Studies,
66(1), 229-233 (2021), as well as numerous other articles on educational
injustice and Black students.
Professor
ross is also a recipient of a 2021 Northwestern Racial Equity and
Community Partnership grant, supporting a synergistic project to “amplify the voices
of Black Evanston residents in devising community-directed redress of ongoing
racialized educational harm and inequities.” Northwestern Now (9/1/21)
She
is an Assistant Professor of African American Studies at Northwestern with a Ph.D. in Social and Cultural Studies of Education, UC
Berkeley (2016), M.A. in Social and Cultural Studies of Education, UC Berkeley,
2011, and a B.A. in African American Studies; Sociology; Education minor, UC
Berkeley, 2002
Beth
Emet is inviting a number of synagogues and churches to join us, as well as
readers of Dear Evanston.