Claire Oberon Garcia

Dean of Faculty, Acting Provost and Professor of English, Colorado College

Claire Oberon Garcia is Dean of Faculty/Acting Provost and Professor of English at Colorado College, where she teaches and conducts research in the fields of literature, Black Atlantic Studies, and feminist and gender studies.

Photo of Claire Oberon Garcia, smiling at the camera and standing in front of book shelves full of books. She has short curly reddish hair and is wearing silver dangling earrings and a silver chain with a small pendant. Her scoop neck blouse is decorated with flowers of varying shades of gray, and she has a gray jacket on over the top of her blouse. — Claire Oberon Garcia

Written by Claire Oberon Garcia

American Studies 102: Survey of 21st Century US “Race” Relations with Professor Iqbal Penelope-Nkotto

Jan 11, 2021

A twenty-second-century American Studies professor looks back at the antiquated notion of “race” that prevailed in 2020, when high-profile incidents of anti-Blackness sparked the War of Reckoning and, ultimately, the Great Reconciliation.

Written by Claire Oberon Garcia

American Studies 102: Survey of 21st Century US “Race” Relations with Professor Iqbal Penelope-Nkotto