Oral history interview with Kendall Thomas, 2020
- Name
- Thomas, Kendall (Interviewee)
- Cvetkovich, Ann, 1957- (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Kendall Thomas, 2020
- Abstract
- In this interview, Kendall Thomas, a scholar of comparative constitutional law and human rights, discusses the COVID-19 pandemic. Thomas focuses on the difficulties regarding measuring time during the pandemic, ways to mobilize new technology to build public resistance, and the racial component of COVID, emphasizing the multiplicity of experiences faced by different demographics. In reflecting on t he similarities between HIV/AIDS and COVID-19, Thomas highlights how viral individualism and utilitarian self-interest has replaced ethics of care, and in turn, the need to build a culture of human rights
- Collection Name
- New York City COVID-19 Narrative and Memory oral history collection
- Subjects
- College teachers; COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-; COVID-19 (Disease)--Social Aspects; Epidemics--Social Aspects; AIDS (Disease)--History.--United States; United States Race relations 21st century; Thomas, Kendall
- Format
- oral histories
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- 43 pages
- Note (Biographical)
- Kendall Thomas is a resident of New York, where he has lived and been on the faculty of Columbia Law School since 1983. Thomas has worked on issues involving HIV/AIDS and lives in Harlem
- Note
- Interviewed by Ann Cvetkovich on June 5, 2020
- Note (Provenance)
- Kendall Thomas, Gift, transferred from Columbia Center for Oral History Research 2023
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 18909769
- Also In
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/ddzx-6e83