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Who is he?
Bristol Community College is excited to announce that the Opening Day Speaker for January 2021 is Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad.
Muhammad, a professor of History, Race and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, is the recipient of many prestigious awards, including the Champion of the Public Interest Award (2018), the Game Changer Award (2017), Ebony Power (2013), The Root 100 of Black Influencers (2012-2017), and Crain's New Your Business Magazine 40 under 40 (2011).
Muhammad's research focuses on the broad intersections of race, democracy, inequality, and criminal justice in the United States.
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The Condemnation of Blackness by Publication Date: 2019“The role of social-science research in creating the myth of black criminality is the focus of this seminal work by historian Khalil Muhammad. The book shows how progressive reformers, academics, and policy-makers subscribed to a ‘statistical discourse’ about black crime almost immediately after Emancipation, one that shifted blame onto black people for their disproportionate incarceration and continues to sustain gross racial disparities in American law enforcement and criminal justice.”—Elizabeth Hinton, The Nation
