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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall in 1976. (Library of Congress)

Race in America: UConn Reads, The Long List

This year’s nominations reflect an issue that remains all-too-real and all-too-relevant.

August 4, 2015 | Cathy Schlund-Vials, Chair, UConn Reads Steering Committee

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Sociology professor Nancy Naples, director of the Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies Program, reads a book by Mirror Lake. (Sean Flynn/UConn Photo)

UConn Reads: The Great Racial Divide

Sociologist Nancy Naples recounts her own experiences of how discrimination can divide friends and split families.

July 21, 2015 | Nancy Naples, Director, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program

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Professor Mark Overmyer-Velázquez reading a book on June 29, 2015. (Sean Flynn/UConn Photo)

UConn Reads: The Immigrant Journey

El Instituto director Mark Overmyer-Velazquez discusses migration from Mexico and books that have helped him understand his family's experience as immigrants in the U.S.

July 14, 2015 | Mark Overmyer-Velazquez, Director, El Instituto

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History professor Jelani Cobb, director of the Africana Studies Institute, reading a book in the Benton Museum courtyard. (Sean Flynn/UConn Photo)

UConn Reads: The Realities of Race and Policing

Africana Studies director Jelani Cobb discusses policing as a racial flashpoint in American social history.

July 6, 2015 | Jelani Cobb, Director, Africana Studies Institute

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Atticus (Gregory Peck) and Tom Robinson (Brock Peters) in court, screenshot from the film To Kill a Mockingbird (1962). (By Moni3 [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons)

UConn Reads: Wrestling With Race

The chair of the UConn Reads Steering Committee discusses how 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' one of the books nominated, is painfully relevant to the present.

June 25, 2015 | Cathy Schlund-Vials, Chair, UConn Reads Steering Committee

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