| Conversations on Mental Health, Race, and Society
The House We Live In
Thursday, Feb. 19, 2015
11:55 a.m.–1:15 p.m.
LAW 3500
Lunch provided
Please RSVP: mali@law.uci.edu
Resurrecting Jim Crow:
Power, Racism and The American Road
Friday, Feb. 20, 2015
11:55 a.m.–1:15 p.m.
LAW 3500
Lunch provided
Please RSVP: mali@law.uci.edu |
| | | This dialogue series sponsored by the Center for Biotechnology & Global Health Policy examines the intersections of law, race, society, and mental health through the use of dialogue and documentary.
The series provides a forum for thinking about the emotional, psychological, and mental health dimensions of social violence and discrimination, examining legal cases as a platform for the discussions. The series is moderated by Professor Michele Goodwin, Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Professor of Public Health and Gender & Women's Studies.
The Feb. 19 discussion will focus on the topic White Flight and The Wage of Poverty: Economic Discrimination in The 20th Century, with a screening of Race—The Power of An Illusion: The House We Live In.
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The Feb. 20 discussion will focus on the topic Resurrecting Jim Crow: Power, Racism and The American Road, with a screening of Eyes on the Prize—Mississippi: Is This America? 1963-1964 and a special lecture by Dr. Fon Louise Gordon, Associate Professor of History at University of Central Florida. Dr. Gordon examines the “road” deaths of civil rights workers Viola Liuzzo, Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman to consider the role of the automobile and automobility as tools of racial and psychological violence during the U.S. Civil Rights movement.
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