CRD Speaker Series: Race and Extreme Violence in American Society Today

[Wiljeana Jackson Glover]

Dear Colleagues,

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.

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?

Panelists Include:

Elijah Anderson, PhD (Prof. of Sociology, Yale)
Andrew Leong, JD (Associate Professor of Legal Education and Immigration Law, UMass Boston)

Sponsored by:
- Postdoctoral Association
- Office of the Dean of Graduate Education
- Center for Bilingual/Bicultural Studies
- Program in Women’s and Gender Studies
- Office of Minority Education
- Committee on Race and Diversity
- Office of the Chancellor

Attached is a promotional flier.  Please feel free to share this invitation with others who may be interested.
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