DATE: Friday, September 9, 2022
TIME: 9:00-11:30 AM
Meeting ID: 958 3076 2273
Passcode: 779849
Please join for a discussion that uses the ongoing attacks against Critical Race Theory as a window onto the routine exploitation of racism in electoral politics—a strategy that not only deepens social strife, it intentionally threatens our democracy as well as society's ability to prevent climate collapse. We will also discuss how and why people on the broad left often respond in self-defeating ways. Ultimately, this talk suggests that we need to recover an older, more radical paradigm of racism if we're to become a multi-racial democracy and save our planet.
Ian Haney López is the Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Public Law as well as a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. His scholarship focuses on how racism has evolved since the civil rights era, including research on the connection between worsening contemporary racism and the rise of an American plutocracy. With the support of unions and foundations, for the last decade Professor Haney López has been running focus groups, deep surveys, and message testing. His findings have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Atlantic, Politico, Rolling Stone, Guardian, and USA Today, among other places, and also feature in his books Dog Whistle Politics (2014) as well as Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections, and Saving America (2019). He is also the creator of the free online course, Race-Class-Academy.com.