Media Advisory: UCI Law Hosts Lecture and Documentary Screening — Resurrecting Jim Crow: Power, Racism and the American Road
WHAT: UC Irvine School of Law’s Center for Biotechnology & Global Health Policy will host a special lecture by Dr. Fon Louise Gordon on Resurrecting Jim Crow: Power, Racism and The American Road. 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.
The documentary Eyes on the Prize—Mississippi: Is This America? 1963-1964 will be screened, and Dr. Gordon and UCI Law Professor Michele Goodwin will consider whether and how that profound legacy currently impacts how people of color encounter the open road and “Driving While Black.”
WHEN: Friday, Feb. 2o, 2015, 12:00-1:15 p.m. Lunch provided. The event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP to mali@law.uci.edu.
WHERE: UC Irvine School of Law, Room 3500. Map and directions here.
WHO: Dr. Fon Gordon is an Associate Professor of History at University of Central Florida. Dr. Gordon places the deaths of civil rights workers in context with the parade of automobiles that frequently attended lynchings decades prior, to unpack the ways in which technology—in this case, the automobile—facilitated terrorizing and torture on the American open road. Click here for an abstract of the discussion.
CONTACT: Media planning to attend the event should contact Colleen Taricani, UCI Law Assistant Dean for Communications, at (949) 824-3063 or ctaricani@law.uci.edu.
About UC Irvine School of Law
UCI Law, which received full accreditation from the ABA effective June 6, 2014, is an innovative law school focused on educating talented and passionate lawyers driven by professional excellence, intellectual rigor and a commitment to enrich our communities through public service. UCI Law is a collegial environment, and our faculty is comprised of accomplished, nationally-ranked thought leaders from around the country with a broad range of expertise. More about the Law School is available at law.uci.edu.