致波士顿大学历史系社区的声明
亲爱的朋友们,
下面是詹姆斯·麦肯教授和尼娜·西尔伯教授的留言。
波士顿大学历史系也加入了反对最近引起全国关注的普遍的种族不公正和暴力的行列。 作为历史学家，我们也深切而悲哀地意识到，长期以来，制度化的种族主义扭曲了这个国家的社会结构。 我们致力于在教学和学术澳门威尼斯人注册网站研究中解决这些问题。
With this in mind, we affirm our support for the recent 声明 issued by the American Historical Association on the history of racist violence in the United States.
事实上，我们认为历史学家在这一时刻负有特别重要的责任：帮助引导一场能够加深我们对历史不公的集体意识的全国性对话，并强调对当前有用的历史教训。 As one 纽约时报 opinion writer recently put it, historians, and humanists more generally, are uniquely situated to provide perspective: “To apply the lessons of the Spanish flu of 1918 and the urban riots of 1968 to the misery and rage of 2020? 我希望有尽可能多受过广泛教育、深刻反思的公民和领导人。”
我们希望我们澳门威尼斯人注册网站的写作和教学可以帮助提供一些急需的观点。 We welcome, too, the arrival of our new colleague, Professor Ibram Kendi, whose 工作 has been critical to the dialogue about racism and anti-racism in this country. And we applaud, too, the arrival of Professor Kendi’s 波士顿大学反种族主义澳门威尼斯人注册网站研究中心 whose mission is “to figure out novel and practical ways to understand, explain, and solve seemingly intractable problems of racial inequity and injustice.” 我们期待着与我们的学生一起工作，因为我们做一些具有挑战性的历史工作，涉及解决这些问题。
真诚地,
James McCann
Professor and Chair, Department of 历史
Nina Silber
Professor and In-coming Chair, Department of 历史