Event Details
Until We're Seen: Public College Students Expose the Hidden Inequalities of the COVID-19 Pandemic
| Event: | Until We're Seen: Public College Students Expose the Hidden Inequalities of the COVID-19 Pandemic |
| Location: | Library: First Floor |
| Room: | 150 - Woody Tanger Auditorium (WTA) |
| Lecturer/ Performer: |
Gaston Alonso Wolfe Institute |
| Date: | Oct 24, 2024 (next month) |
| Time: | 11:30 am - 2:15 pm |
| Description: | This event centers the voices of Brooklyn College student authors who contributed to the recent book Until We’re Seen” Public College Students Expose the Hidden Inequalities of the COVID-19 Pandemic, co-edited by Professors Joseph Entin and Jeanne Theoharis. Through firsthand accounts by college students at Brooklyn College and California State University Los Angeles, Until We’re Seen chronicles COVID-19’s devastating, disproportionate effects on working-class communities of color, even as the United States has declared the pandemic over and looks away from its impacts. Very few of these students and their families had the luxury of laboring from home; if they were able to keep their jobs, they took subways and buses, and they worked. They drove delivery trucks, worked in private homes, cooked food in restaurants for people to pick up, worked as EMTs, and did construction. They couldn’t escape to second homes; if anything, more people moved in, as families were forced to consolidate to save money. Together, the accounts in this book show that the COVID-19 pandemic did discriminate, following the race and class fissures endemic to US society. Recounting 2020–2022 through the experiences of predominantly young, working-class immigrants and people of color living in the first two major US COVID-19 epicenters, Until We’re Seen spotlights previously untold stories of the pandemic in New York, Los Angeles, and the nation. |
| Event Type: | Public Lecture/Event |
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