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<p>"TCU formed the Race and Reconciliation Initiative in August in 2020, after the murder of George Floyd, which prompted TCU and many other universities to research their history with slavery."</p>
The research effort is part of an international consortium of over 60 universities researching the role of racism and slavery within their institutional histories.
The research effort is part of an international consortium of over 60 universities researching the role of racism and slavery within their institutional histories.
Oak Bluffs Public Library will be hosting Frederick W. Gooding Jr., an associate professor of history at Texas Christian University, also known as Dr. G. He will present an examination of “how the Oscars have recognized Black actors from the Academy Awards beginning in 1929,” according to a press release. The talk is planned to […]
Black Oscars : Race and the Academy Awards focus of Memphis library event John Beifuss, Memphis Commercial Appeal
In what Variety labeled an Oscar diversity record, nine actors of color were nominated this year for Academy Awards.
The milestone presented a hopeful contrast to 2016, when all 20 acting nominees were white, a situation that sparked the critical social media hashtag #OscarsSoWhite.
But Dr. Frederick W. Gooding Jr., an author and professor at Texas Christian University, cautions that achieving meaningful diversity in the acting categories may have more to do with the quality of roles than with the quantity of nominations. What does it tell us if the Black women winning Academy Awards 70 years apart are still playing maids? he asked, citing the Oscar-recognized performances of Hattie McDaniel in Gone With the Wind (1939) and Octavia Spencer in The Help (2011).