Professors Howard Winant (UC Santa Barbara) and Michael Omi (UC Berkeley) headline a groundbreaking symposium addressing the theories, politics and practices of racial formation. The symposium is organized in anticipation of the upcoming 25th anniversary of the original publication of Omi and Winant’s landmark book Racial Formation in the United States.
April 17-18, 2009
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Symposium website: http://www.waynemorsecenter.uoregon.edu/Racial_Formation_09/home.html with speaker bios, paper descriptions, and full program.
Omi and Winant's work—influential to a generation of scholars across the social sciences and humanities—will serve as the point of departure for a series of panels and presentations exploring the past, present and future of racial formation.
Featuring:
Michael Omi, UC Berkeley and Howard Winant, UC Santa Barbara
Keynote Speakers:
Devon Carbado, UCLA and
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University
Confirmed panelists:
Catherine Lee, Rutgers University,
Sherene Razack, University of Toronto,
Martin Summers, Boston College,
John L. Jackson, Jr., University of Pennsylvania,
Matt Garcia, Brown University,
Neil Gotanda, Western State University,
Michelle McKinley, University of Oregon,
Gary Delgado, Applied Research Center,
Laura Gomez, University of New Mexico,
Priya Kandaswamy, Portland State University,
Nikhil Singh, New York University & University of Washington,
Tomas Almaguer, San Francisco State University,
Denise Ferreira da Silva, University of California, San Diego,
Andrea Smith, University of California, Riverside,
Deborah A. Thomas, University of Pennsylvania
Organized by Daniel HoSang, University of Oregon,
Laura Pulido, University of Southern California, and
Oneka LaBennett, Fordham University
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