Longman Delivers Lecture on Institutionalized Racial Segregation in South Africa
On October 26, 2021, Timothy Longman, Professor of International Relations and Political Science at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University and Director of the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs (CURA), delivered a lecture at Brooks School on apartheid and institutionalized racial segregation in South Africa.
Longman was invited to help students better understand the topics in the school’s All-Community Read, Born a Crime by Trevor Noah. In his remarks, Longman discussed the history of apartheid, the lasting legacies that remain apparent today, as well as the United States’ own history of segregation. Longman challenged students to keep thinking about all of the issues that had been raised in his lecture and see how they apply to their own lives and their country.
Following his remarks, Longman fielded inquiries as part of a Q&A session on South Africans’ tension with the police, the role of religion in apartheid, as well as gender inequality, and what he has learned about his white privilege.
A recording of the lecture as well as the Q&A session can be viewed below.
Professor Timothy Longman is a Professor of International Relations and Political Science at the Pardee School, Director of the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs, and acting Director of the African Studies Center at Boston University. His current research focuses on state-society relations in Africa, looking particularly at human rights, transitional justice, democratization, civil society, the politics of race and ethnicity, religion and politics, and women and politics. He has published two books based on his research in Rwanda: Christianity and Genocide in Rwanda (Cambridge University Press 2011), and Memory and Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda (Cambridge University Press 2017). Read more about Professor Longman on his faculty profile.