Fifty years after the Civil Rights Movement and during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, a small group of Chapman University students met on Zoom to talk about institutional racism with people who were students in the late 1960s.

As part of the fall 2020 honors class, “Race Matters: Institutional Racism in the US,” students updated data collected in 1969 and published in “Institutional Racism in America.” This year, the updated work, “Institutional Racism in the United States Revisited,” became Chapman’s first in-house publication placed on the CU Digital Commons platform. Since the book was put on Digital Commons, it’s been downloaded more than 900 times.

“The entirety of the book is truly a testimonial to the great efforts that the authors have expended over the last several years,” said Chapman President Daniele C. Struppa. “This book is the result of so many hands at work, including Andy Horowitz, who first suggested the idea, Carmichael Peters (Religious Studies), who embraced and coordinated the project and led the honors seminar, Lou Knowles, who edited multiple contributions and guided the process, Susanna Branch, whose personal generosity and dedication supported the book’s completion, and all the students who spent uncountable hours on the project.”

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