Professor Steven Mintz, University of Texas at Austin, writing in Inside Higher Education: “Many of my students mistakenly believe that the academic focus on inequality, prejudice, and racial violence is a recent development. In reality, scholars have been grappling with these issues for well over a century, seeking to understand the deep-rooted causes of racial prejudice, group violence, and the mechanisms that enable large-scale hatred and dehumanization.” Read the professor’s commentary here.