April 2018

Africology professor unravels race and representation

In the United States, African Americans make up about 13 percent of the population, but hold less than 10 percent of the seats in government.That’s a problem, according to a new paper by UWM Africology professor Nolan Kopkin.

UWM Land Acknowledgement: We acknowledge in Milwaukee that we are on traditional Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk and Menominee homeland along the southwest shores of Michigami, North America’s largest system of freshwater lakes, where the Milwaukee, Menominee and Kinnickinnic rivers meet and the people of Wisconsin’s sovereign Anishinaabe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Oneida and Mohican nations remain present.   |   To learn more, visit the Electa Quinney Institute website.