The Paradoxes of Race, Law and Inequality in the United States

The Paradoxes of Race, Law and Inequality in the United States

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A CONFERENCE TO BE HELD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE
Location: Humanities Instructional Building 135
May 2-3, 2008
Friday: 9:30 am - 6:30 pm
Saturday: 9:30 am - 3:00 pm

Topics:

-- How Do Legal Discourses About Race Reproduce Racial Inequality?

-- How have racialized inequalities in the United States been
reinforced or exacerbated in recent decades?

-- How do discursive shifts in crime policy and the unprecedented
expansion of imprisonment since the 1960s affect investments in
racialized forms of governance?

-- How have institutionalized inequalities been sharpened even as
few admit to being racist?

-- What are the global impacts of American racial policies and practices?

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Organized by the Law & Society Review and the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture

Co-sponsored by the Department of Criminology, Law and Society, the Department of Sociology, the School of Humanities, the School of
Social Ecology, the School of Social Sciences, the UCI Office of Research, and the Law and Society Association

For further information, please email us at paradox@uci.edu

Participants may access copies of the conference papers here