Faculty Address: Students encouraged to change conversation about stereotypes

Jenifer Bratter, an associate professor of sociology and director of the Kinder Institute for Urban Research’s Program for the Study of Ethnicity, Race and Culture, gave the O-Week Faculty Address Aug. 17. During her talk, she asked new students to examine how they will change the conversation around identities and stereotypes as discussed in “Whistling Vivaldi,” the 2015 Common Reading selection. (Photos by Jeff Fitlow)

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