"The President, the Professor, and the Judge: The New Rhetoric of Racism"
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Program Description
Recently, three prominent racial trailblazers—President Barack Obama, Professor Henry Louis Gates, and Judge Sonia Sotomayor—have faced charges of having “a deep-seated hatred for white people,” “playing the race card,” and being a “reverse racist,” respect ively. How do we make sense of a “post-racial” landscape that both permits select people of color to achieve historic firsts and yet ties their hands behind their backs when it comes to frank talk about racism? Is the latter the price of the former? What are the implications for racial justice advocacy if we lose the ability to protest racial injustice?
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Moderated by:
Professor Russell Robinson, UCLA School of Law
Panelists:
Professor Kimberlé W. Crenshaw, UCLA School of Law
Professor Phillip Atiba Goff, UCLA Department of Psychology
Antonia Hernández, Esq., President and CEO, California Community Foundation
Professor Adam Winkler, UCLA School of Law
Background Materials
Adam Winkler, "Obama Was Right about the Gates Arrest," The Huffington Post, July 25, 2009
Phillip Atiba Goff, "A Good Victim Helps the Cause," The New York Times, July 22, 2009
Orlando Patterson, "Race and Diversity in the Age of Obama," The New York Times, August 14, 2009
Russell Goldman, "Did Obama Go Too Far with Race Remark?" ABC News, July 23, 2009
Adia Harvey, "Gloria Steinem, Where Are You Now?" Racism Review, May 30, 2009
Gillian Flaccus (AP), "Crowley Gets Ovation from Officers in California," Associated Press, August 17, 2009
Bob Herbert, "Anger Has Its Place," The New York Times, July 31, 2009
Richard Fausset, "Testing Obama's Effect on Racial Attitudes," The Los Angeles Times, August 19, 2009
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