Ingrid Nelson, Professor of Sociology, was joined by moderator Professor Brian Purnell this past Thursday, November 13th to discuss her recent book, “Yet Another Costume Party Debacle: Why Racial Ignorance Persists on Elite College Campuses”.
Her work examines the fallout from three racially-themed costume parties that occurred at Bowdoin between 2014 and 2016 and places them into greater organizational sociological context, using interviews and surveys with students who attended and organized the parties, as well as Bowdoin Orient articles and Yik Yak posts preserved by Special Collections and Archives.