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Essays On 'The Assault On Communities of Color'

NPR Illinois | 91.9 UIS | By Maureen Foertsch McKinney

Published June 22, 2015 at 3:18 PM CDT

Illinois State University

Nicholas Hartlep

With titles like “We Can’t Breathe” and “Grey Hoodies, Baggy Jeans, and Brown Skin,” a newly released book of essays stood out from much of the information that comes across the Equity blog radar. So we looked up co-editor Nicholas Hartlep, a professor in educational foundations at Illinois State University. The book, published by Rowman and Littlefield, features 57 essays. Hartlep, an author of several works on the topic of race, talked with Maureen Foertsch McKinney, who acts as co-curator of WUIS/Illinois’ Equity blog.