• Feb 13, 2008

Rethinking Race & Civil Rights in the 21st Century: Multiracialism & The Renegotiation of Racial Boundaries

  • 6:00 PM
  • John Chipman Gray Room, Pound Hall, Harvard Law School, 1563 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138

Presented by the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association, Black Law Students Association, Multiracial Law Students Association, and the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice

Join a cross-racial discussion among leading scholars and civil rights activists about what challenges a rapidly growing and more self-conscious mixed race community are posing to the current civil rights system and to American racial identities. Where is the struggle for racial equality headed in an increasingly multiracial America?

A discussion with:

  • Professor Michele Elam, Stanford University
  • Professor Jennifer Hochschild, Harvard University (Moderator)
  • Matt Kelley, Founder & Former President, MAVIN Foundation
  • Dennis Parker, Director, ACLU Racial Justice Program
  • Professor Kim Williams, John F. Kennedy School of Government

Principal Sponsor:

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

Co-Sponsors:

ALANA
American Constitution Society
Kennedy School of Government Asian Pacific American Caucus
Harvard Law and Policy Review
La Alianza
South Asian Law Students Association
Unbound

All are welcome. Free dinner served.