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Francis Amasa Walker, the third president of MIT, helped bring the school its prestige. He also wrote a treatise in 1874 justifying the forced removal of Native Americans from their land. Now, students and alumni are debating how to navigate Walker’s mixed legacy.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — As the third president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Francis Amasa Walker helped usher the school into national prominence in the late 1800s.
Mutually Assured Survival: Mahmood Mamdaniâs Call to Decolonise the Political and Decriminalise Justice In âNeither Setter nor Nativeâ, the Ugandan scholar draws valuable lessons from the history of the United States, Sudan, Israel/Palestine, Nuremberg and South Africa. Mahmood Mamdani. Photo: Mahmood Mamdani/Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 2.0 Mahmood Mamdaniâs latest book, Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities (Harvard University Press, 2020) makes an urgent intervention in contemporary politics. In a searing critique of the nation-state...