Authors in the Afternoon | Rob Eschmann and Heba Gowayed Discuss “When the Hood Comes Off”
PLEASE NOTE: Jelani Cobb, originally scheduled to moderate this discussion, is unable to attend. We're grateful to Heba Gowayed for stepping in.
Join Rob Eschmann (Columbia University, Harvard University) for a discussion of his new book, When the Hood Comes Off: Racism and Resistance in the Digital Age, led by Heba Gowayed. Blending rigorous research and personal narrative, When the Hood Comes Off, examines the effects of online racism on communities of color and society, and the unexpected ways that digital technologies enable innovative everyday tools of antiracist resistance. From cell phone footage of police killing unarmed Black people to leaked racist messages, online communication exposes how racism operates in a world that pretends to be colorblind.
After the moderated conversation, stay and talk informally with Dr. Eschmann in CBH’s living room.
Participants
Rob Eschmann is a writer, scholar, filmmaker, and educator from Chicago. He is Associate Professor of Social Work and a member of the Data Science Institute at Columbia University, as well as Faculty Associate at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. A proud product of the Chicago Public Schools, he received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2017. Dr. Eschmann writes on educational inequality, community violence, racism, social media, and youth wellbeing. His research seeks to uncover individual, group, and intuitional-level barriers to racial and economic equity, and he pays special attention to the heroic efforts everyday people make to combat those barriers.
Dr. Eschmann is among the first scholars to systematically explore the effects of online experiences on real-world outcomes. In addition to authoring When the Hood Comes Off, Dr. Eschmann wrote and directed Choose Your Own Resistance, an immersive, multi-perspective film about choosing to challenge racism.
Heba Gowayed is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the CUNY Grad Center. Her research, which is global and comparative, centers the lives of people who migrate across borders, and the unequal and often violent institutions they face. She is author of Refuge, published with Princeton University Press, which explores how states shape the potential of people pursuing refuge within their borders. She is currently working on her second book, The Cost of Borders, which theorizes borders as series of costly, and often deadly, transactions.
Her writing has appeared in academic journals including Gender & Society, Ethnic & Racial Studies, American Behavioral Scientist and Sociological Forum, as well as in public outlets including Slate, Al Jazeera English, The New Humanitarian, and Teen Vogue.
PLEASE NOTE: Jelani Cobb, originally scheduled to moderate this discussion, is unable to attend. We're grateful to Heba Gowayed for stepping in.
Join Rob Eschmann (Columbia University, Harvard University) for a discussion of his new book, When the Hood Comes Off: Racism and Resistance in the Digital Age, led by Heba Gowayed. Blending rigorous research and personal narrative, When the Hood Comes Off, examines the effects of online racism on communities of color and society, and the unexpected ways that digital technologies enable innovative everyday tools of antiracist resistance. From cell phone footage of police killing unarmed Black people to leaked racist messages, online communication exposes how racism operates in a world that pretends to be colorblind.
After the moderated conversation, stay and talk informally with Dr. Eschmann in CBH’s living room.
Participants
Rob Eschmann is a writer, scholar, filmmaker, and educator from Chicago. He is Associate Professor of Social Work and a member of the Data Science Institute at Columbia University, as well as Faculty Associate at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. A proud product of the Chicago Public Schools, he received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2017. Dr. Eschmann writes on educational inequality, community violence, racism, social media, and youth wellbeing. His research seeks to uncover individual, group, and intuitional-level barriers to racial and economic equity, and he pays special attention to the heroic efforts everyday people make to combat those barriers.
Dr. Eschmann is among the first scholars to systematically explore the effects of online experiences on real-world outcomes. In addition to authoring When the Hood Comes Off, Dr. Eschmann wrote and directed Choose Your Own Resistance, an immersive, multi-perspective film about choosing to challenge racism.
Heba Gowayed is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the CUNY Grad Center. Her research, which is global and comparative, centers the lives of people who migrate across borders, and the unequal and often violent institutions they face. She is author of Refuge, published with Princeton University Press, which explores how states shape the potential of people pursuing refuge within their borders. She is currently working on her second book, The Cost of Borders, which theorizes borders as series of costly, and often deadly, transactions.
Her writing has appeared in academic journals including Gender & Society, Ethnic & Racial Studies, American Behavioral Scientist and Sociological Forum, as well as in public outlets including Slate, Al Jazeera English, The New Humanitarian, and Teen Vogue.