In this episode, Dr. Rhon takes a deep dive into a broader American historical narrative and UNC-Chapel Hill's place within it. She considers: are we returning to "The Great Resegregation"?
This episode confronts the realities of historical regression; its chilling effects on the learning spaces of higher education; and the long-term impact on academia’s role as a place for critical thought. Dr. Rhon invites a frank but necessary conversation about the future of higher education. In the end, the things we cannot say may just be what needs to be said.
In this episode, Dr. Rhon takes a deep dive into a broader American historical narrative and UNC-Chapel Hill's place within it. She considers: are we returning to "The Great Resegregation"?
This episode confronts the realities of historical regression; its chilling effects on the learning spaces of higher education; and the long-term impact on academia’s role as a place for critical thought. Dr. Rhon invites a frank but necessary conversation about the future of higher education. In the end, the things we cannot say may just be what needs to be said.
Sources:
- Adam Serwer, “The Great Resegregation.” The Atlantic. February 22, 2025.
- Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mother’s Gardens: Womanist Prose (Mariner Books [reprint edition], 2003).
- Anthea Butler, White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America (UNC Press [second edition], 2024).
- Origin, directed by Ava DuVernay (Array Filmworks, 2023). Based on Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson (Random House, 2020).
- “Paving the Way: Carolina’s Black Pioneers.”
- J. Brian Charles, “The Evolution of DEI." The Chronicle of Higher Education (June 23, 2023.)
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