Open the Books

Today, we’re talking with Stephanie Rivera Berruz and Taina Figueroa about race and racism in the university and their particularly cities (i.e. Milwaukee and Atlanta). We focus on LatinX identities and their relation to the Black/White Binary, especially in the wake of the murders of George Floyd and Breanna Taylor. By asking, What are some ways y’all think current discussions concerning COVID-19 and/or institutional racism need to involve discussions of LatinX identities? Disability? Or other marginalized groups? Next, we zoom in on some particular examples of the pervasive problem of race and racism within the US through a discussion of Milwaukee’s segregation and Mayor Keisha Bottoms’ response to #blm in Atlanta.