Berkeley’s Haney López to Deliver CSRRR’s Spring Lecture

Ian F. Haney López, professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, will deliver the Center for the Study of Race & Race Relations Spring 2007 Lecture at noon April 3 in the Chesterfield Smith Ceremonial Classroom. The title of his lecture is “A Nation of Minorities: Race, Ethnicity, and Reactionary Colorblindness.” A prolific writer on race relations and law, Haney López’s most recent book, Racism on Trial: The Chicano Fight for Justice (Belknap/ Harvard, 2003), uses the legal history of the Mexican-American civil rights struggle in Los Angeles to explore the relationship between legal violence and self-conceptions of racial identity. For more information, contact Melissa Bamba in CSRRR at 273-0614 or email bamba@law.ufl.edu.