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FREE Panel Discussion:Does Race Matter? The Henry Louis Gates Case and Race Relations in America |
Location: MCC Lounge
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5:00 PM - 6:00 PM11/02/09
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The arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts on July 16, 2009 ignited a wide range of legal and social debate as well as a media firestorm worldwide. Mark Sawyer, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Political Science and Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Politics at UCLA; Tarika Lewis, community activist and first female recruit of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense; and law enforcement representatives will address topics such as racial profiling, civil rights, incarceration, and other topics on race relations in America.
contact: viviana.marsano@sa.ucsb.edu 805-893-7608
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