The Primary Texts Program’s Live Ideas Lecture series will host Dr. Jennie Ikuta (University of Missouri) on Friday, May 1st, 2026.

Please join us in Regnier Forum, Reigner Hall from 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM!

Dr. Ikuta’s second book project, White Losses: Moral Psychology and the Demands of Racial Justice (under advance contract, Oxford University Press), employs the thought of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, W.E.B. Du Bois, and James Baldwin – in conjunction with analyses of popular forms of American liberalism and contemporary political theory – to illuminate the psychological transformations required by members of historically dominant groups for the sake of a more egalitarian society.