“Race, Democracy and Public Policy in America,” February 8-9 in Austin.


The University of Texas at Austin has established The Center for the Study of Race and Democracy (CSRD) at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, which will host its inaugural national conference, “Race, Democracy and Public Policy in America,” February 8-9 in Austin.
The two-day conference at the LBJ School will bring together nationally recognized scholars, activists and students to analyze race, democracy and public policy from LBJ’s Great Society to the Age of Barack Obama and Black Lives Matter.
The conference exemplifies the scholarly activities that will form the core of the mission of CSRD: seeking to lead a public conversation about the very meaning of racial, social and political justice; and being a source for expert scholarly and research opinions on race and democracy.
“Race and democracy stand at the core of America’s national identity, ongoing political evolution, and democratic experiment,” said UT’s LBJ School and History Professor Peniel Joseph, Founding Director of the CSRD. “The inaugural conference will endeavor to draw on contributions of policy experts, scholars, activists, thought leaders and intellectuals to inform and stimulate the public conversation on the intersection between race and democracy in politics, culture, economics and society.”
Keynote Speaker Charlayne Hunter-GaultThe conference will feature keynote addresses by Charlayne Hunter-Gault, award-winning journalist and civil rights activist; and Yohuru Williams, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Fairfield University and author of Black Politics/White Power: Civil Rights Black Power and Black Panthers in New Haven. Scholars from across the country, including a number of UT Austin faculty members, will participate in the two-day conference.
Keynote Speaker Yohuru WilliamsPanel topics will include "From Selma to Ferguson: Grassroots Activism from the Meredith March to Black Lives Matter," "The Great Society Then and Now: Reimagining the Racial Justice and Public Policy Legacies of the 1960s," "The Civil Rights Movement and Public Policy in the 21st Century," "The Color of Change: Racial Justice, Public Policy, and Grassroots Activism in Obama’s America," "Reimagining American Democracy and Racial Justice: Civil Rights in the Age of Mass Incarceration, Ferguson and Black Lives Matter," and "Bridging America’s Racial and Policy Divide."
For more information and to register for the two-day conference, visitcsrdconference.eventbrite.com
The LBJ School and the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy (CSRD) will host the Center’s inaugural national conference on Feb 8th & 9th, 2016. Race,…
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