What: The Inaugural Lassiter Distinguished Visiting Professor Conference
When: February 25, 2011
Where: University of Kentucky Boone Faculty Center
Keynote Speaker: John A. Powell, Kirwan Institute
About the conference:
The College of Law is proud to host the Inaugural Lassiter Distinguished Visiting Professor Conference. Professor William M. Wiecek, Congdon Professor of Public Law and Professor of History at Syracuse University College of Law, and the Inaugural James and Mary Lassiter Distinguished Visiting Professor at UK Law, will lead this interdisciplinary exploration of structural racism.
Structural racism appears in our dependence on local property taxes for public school funding, or reliance on social networks to spread information about job openings, or subjective decision-making in the workplace, or a housing market that is driven by unconscious stereotypes, or the on-going exclusion of domestic and farm workers from Social Security benefits. Each example appears on the surface to be race-neutral. Yet their outcomes consistently disadvantage people of color.
The goal of the conference is to engage in a cross-disciplinary exploration of structural racism in order to enable cross-disciplinary action to dismantle structural racism.
All UK schools and colleges, as well as the wider Lexington and Kentucky community, are invited to this interdisciplinary exploration on structural racism.
University of Kentucky
College of Law
620 S. Limestone
Lexington, KY 40506-0048
Phone: 859.257.1678
Fax: 859.323.1061
Source: http://www.law.uky.edu/index.php?pid=328
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