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In 2018, to mark the 400th anniversary of the first recorded arrival of enslaved Africans to American shores, Mindy Fullilove worked with her class at the New School to create a timeline of inequality in the United States, incorporating the narratives of a range of marginalized groups. Their purpose was to visualize the ecology of inequality, situating its stories in time and space—in ...
This talk invites people to observe the 2019 400th anniversary of the first Africans landing at Jamestown using their superpower of “sense of place.” Mindy Thompson Fullilove, MD, is a professor of urban policy and health at The New School, having moved there in 2016 after 26 years at New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia ...
Mindy Thompson Fullilove, MD, grew up in Orange, NJ in an activist family. Her father was a prominent civil rights activist and her mother was committed to anti-racism in all aspects of her life and work. Growing up, Mindy was torn and upset by the tension between the belief in her parents’s work and the costs of taking on the system. Yet the ...
Mindy Fullilove: The New School has helped us launch this project, which you can find on our website at 400yearsofinequality.org. 2019 will mark the 400th anniversary since the first Africans arrived in Jamestown [as slaves]. The project is to call on the United States to prepare for and observe this anniversary of Jamestown.
