[Updated times and locations] Duke Law School Hosts Discussion Series on Race
Discussions on immigration reform, America’s changing demographics and hip-hop culture will take place over three days in March.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
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Durham, NC -- Discussions on immigration reform, America’s changing demographics and hip-hop culture will take place over three days in March, as part of Duke University Law School’s Jean E. and Christine P. Mills Conversation Series.
All three events -- March 5, 20 and 26 -- are free and open to the public.
The March 5 discussion on the racial dynamics underlying the immigration debate features Kevin R. Johnson, Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/Chicano Studies at the University of California-Davis School of Law. Johnson’s new book is “Opening the Floodgates: Why America Needs to Rethink Its Borders and Immigration Laws.”
The March 20 discussion on America’s changing demographics features professor Juan F. Perea of the University of Florida Levin College of Law. Perea, who has written extensively on immigration and constitutional issues relating to Latinos in the United States, will examine the implications and possibilities presented by U.S. demographic changes. He is the co-author of “Race and Races: Cases and Resources for a Diverse America.” The discussion begins at 12:15 p.m. in Room 3037.
On March 26, “Hip Hop Culture: A Convenient Scapegoat or a Contributor to Inequality?” will bring three distinguished scholars together to lead a discussion on the inter- and intra-racial implications of the hip-hop genre. Mark Anthony Neal, Duke professor of African and African American studies, has written extensively about black and hip-hop music and culture in works that include “That’s the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader.” Professor Imani Perry of Rutgers Law School, the author of “Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop,” focuses her scholarship on race in law and culture. Professor Mario L. Barnes of the University of Miami School of Law is a specialist in the areas of criminal and constitutional law as well as race and the law. The discussion begins at 12:15 p.m. in Room 3041.
Topics for the discussions were selected to take the discussion of race out of a strictly black-white paradigm and demonstrate the complexity of race relations in the United States between and within racial groups, said Trina Jones, a Duke law professor who organized the event.
The discussions are co-sponsored by the Program in Public Law. Each event will be webcast live at http://www.law.duke.edu/webcast.
