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Race and Ethnicity: A Global Inquiry
An International Symposium

The Politics of Identity and Difference in a Global Context
Sunday, March 4
3:00pm
Kim Levinson, Noel Ignatiev,
and Becky Thompson

K. Anthony Appiah,Professor of Afro-American Studies and Philosophy, Harvard University; Co-author, Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race; Author, In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture

Noel Ignatiev, Associate Professor of History and American Studies, Masschusetts College of Art; Author, How the Irish became White; Co-editor, Race Traitor; Fellow, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, Harvard University

Rajini Srikanth, Professor of English and Asian American Studies, University of Massachusetts, Boston; Co-Editor, A Part, Yet Apart: South Asians in Asian America and Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America

Ilan Stavans, Professor of Spanish, Amherst College; Author, The Hispanic Condition: Reflections on Culture and Identify in America; Recipient, Latino Literature Prize

Becky Thompson, Professor of Sociology, Simmons College; Author, A Promise and a Way of Life: White Antiracist Activism; Co-author, Names We Call Home: Autobiography on Racial Identity

Phillippe Wamba, Author, Kinship: A Family's Journey in Africa and America

Moderator: Kim Levinson, EPIIC Colloquium

PROGRAMS

Sunday, March 4

The Economic Roots of Ethnic Conflict: The Role of Extractive Industries

Women and Ethnic Conflict

Race and the Death Penalty

Indigenous People: Development and Cultural Survival

The Politics of Identity and Difference in a Global Context

Musical Celebration featuring Hickory Stew, The Joel LaRue-Smith Quartet and Balatón

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