The largest class of black students in Yale University’s history arrives in 1993, just as the country enters a period now known as the Great American Divide: the unofficial beginning of today’s culture wars. Together our students create for each other an education that challenges the official curriculum, whose central texts are the stories they share with – and the experiences they bring to – a university dining hall table as old as the 20th Century itself. Told against the backdrop of the Supreme Court’s 2023 decision to no longer allow race as a consideration in college admissions, Black Table examines the personal, sociological, and political impact of affirmative action policies during this historic moment.
