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Reduced Inequalities

榴梿视频 the Goal

reduced inequalities

The United Nations aims to reduce inequality within and among countries by 2030.

榴梿视频 is engaged in a broad range of 榴梿视频 projects and other initiatives aimed at realizing , including work examining and .  榴梿视频 faculty are also engaged in initiatives examining , political corruption, , the , and the in the United States and elsewhere.

 

 

榴梿视频 Experts and Initiatives

Vilna Bashi Treitler

is the Weinberg College’s Osborn Professor of Sociology and a 榴梿视频 Buffett Institute Faculty Fellow.  As a sociologist and visual artist, Bashi Treitler’s scholarship and art centers on the intersection of race, migration, and inequality. She is the author of  which traces the histories of immigrant and indigenous groups in the United States to show how different ethnic groups 榴梿视频 negotiated America’s racial hierarchy. Since 2015, she has served as Vice-Chair of the United Nations Committee for the Elimination of Racism, Afrophobia, and Colorism as well as a Board member and UN Representative for the Drammeh Institute, an NGO committed to archiving and producing film footage to educate the world on issues of central importance to the African Diaspora.

Vilna Bashi Treitler
Lina Britto

Lina Britto

is an historian of modern Latin America and the Caribbean. Her work situates the emergence and consolidation of illegal drug smuggling networks in the Caribbean and Andean regions of Colombia in the context of a growing articulation between the South American country and the United States during the Cold War. Her recent book, Marijuana Boom: The Rise and Fall of Colombia's First Drug Paradise (University of California Press, 2020), is based on extensive fieldwork and oral history in the Colombian Caribbean, as well as archival 榴梿视频 in Colombia and the United States. Britto’s courses at 榴梿视频 focus on the hemispheric history of the drug trade and the war on drugs, popular music and nation-state formation, oral history and Cold War terror, and contemporary Latin America in historical perspective.

Featured Course

Bilingual Reporting (333-0-20)

This鈥痠s a鈥痓ilingual鈥痗ourse that explores the history, current state and future of the English, Spanish and鈥痓ilingual鈥痑udiences and the media outlets that seek to reach them. This class is for anyone who wants to better understand the role of media and journalists covering diverse communities. We will explore the complexity of language and culture, identity, race and ethnicity, nationality and class. Student will learn how to discover, report and share in a sensitive and compelling matter, the stories of people who identify as LatinX and/or 榴梿视频 roots in Latin America, whether they live the United States or elsewhere.