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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">I am pleased to invite you to a panel discussion entitled "Race and Extreme Violence in American Society Today." The event is scheduled for Thursday, April 19 from 4:00
to 5:30 PM in Room 4-237.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande","serif""><br>
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</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Our panelists will compare the Trayvon Martin incident and the death of Jicun Wu, owner of a Chinese takeout in Philadelphia, as instances of extreme violence against the black and Asian
American communities. Martin was killed in Florida in February 2012, Wu died in Pennsylvania in March 2012: what does this say about the state of race relations in US society today?</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande","serif""><br>
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</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Panelists Include:</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande","serif""><br>
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</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Elijah Anderson, PhD (Prof. of Sociology, Yale)</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande","serif""><br>
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Andrew Leong, JD (Associate Professor of Legal Education and Immigration Law, UMass Boston) </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande","serif""><br>
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</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Sponsored by:</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande","serif""><br>
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">- Postdoctoral Association
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</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">- Office of the Dean of Graduate Education</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande","serif""><br>
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">- Center for Bilingual/Bicultural Studies
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</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">- Program in Women’s and Gender Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">- Office of Minority Education
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande","serif""><br>
</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">- Committee on Race and Diversity<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">- Office of the Chancellor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Attached is a promotional flier. Please feel free to share this invitation with others who may be interested.<span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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