[Uwhistory] Patricia Williams next week

[Trevor Griffey]

http://www.grad.washington.edu/lectures/schedule.htm#Patricia_Williams

Patricia Williams

                     Civil Rights in an Era of Civil Wrongs

                           John & Jessie Danz Lecture

  When: Thursday, May 18th, 2006 - 6:30 PM Where: Town Hall

(Photo) Patricia Williams (Law, Columbia) asks how we might achieve a
world where "color doesn't matter"--where whiteness is not equated with
normalcy and blackness with exoticism and danger. Drawing on her own
experience, Williams delineates the great divide between "the poles of
other people's imagination and the nice calm center of oneself where
dignity resides," and discusses how it might be bridged as a first step
toward resolving racism. Williams offers us a new starting point--"a
sensible and sustained consideration"--from which we might begin to deal
honestly with the legacy and current realities of our prejudices. Free
tickets required and available at University Book Store locations.