Viewing and Discussion: "Jim Crow of the North" Feb. 18 at 7pm

Join your neighbors as we watch and discuss this important film.

This one-hour documentary uses the history of racial covenants in Minneapolis to explore the complex history of discriminatory housing policies and their contemporary legacies. This Emmy award-winning film explains why mapping racial covenants is so important.

Join us afterward for a discussion moderated by Daniel Williams, assistant professor in the Department of Sociology, and affiliate faculty in Critical Studies of Race and Ethnicity and Women's Studies at St. Catherine’s University. Professor Williams' work examines constructions of race, ethnicity and nation from a comparative and intersectional perspective, with a focus on contemporary Germany/Europe and the U.S., as well as the African Diaspora. Specifically, he examines immigration policy, racial categorization, and media representations as key sites of the construction of difference. He teaches courses on immigration and citizenship (in both the US and Europe), race and ethnicity, cities and neighborhoods, as well as the department's research methods course.

Pre-register here: https://www.facebook.com/events/159877752438474

Want to watch but this time doesn’t work for you? You can stream this movie online anytime from free from here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWQfDbbQv9E&feature=youtu.be

Note: In March, we’ll be going through the Mapping Prejudice training and then diving in to the database to review deeds. More details will follow.