Beyond the debate over whether America really is Post-Racial, there is emerging an understanding of the limits of “racial discrimination” as framed by the Supreme Court. Recent research has examined different forms of racial subordination, such as racialized foreignness, a permanent immigrant trope, racial performance, and racial profiling. These subordinations require new legal remedies.
Thursday, October 17 at 7:30pm
Griffin Hall, Room 3
Neil Gotanda’s is the W. Ford Schumann Visiting Professor in Democratic Studies in the Department of History, fall 2013, and professor of law at Western State University College of Law in Fullerton, California. Responding to his remarks will be Margaret Chon, Donald and Lynda Horowitz Professor for the Pursuit of Justice at Seattle University School of Law.