The Black Law Students Association invites everyone to attend a panel discussion to be held on Monday, February 18th in Room 118 at 12:15. Lunch will be provided. The Panel Discussion is in collaboration with the Freedom Center Journal. Our panelist are members of the Freedom Center Journal and have examined several aspects of race and America through there work on the Freedom Center Journal. The panelist will be Antonio Mazzaro, Damaris Del Valle, and Brandon Craig.
Antonio will discuss the book FROM LYNCH MOBS TO THE KILLING STATE: RACE AND THE DEATH PENALTY IN AMERICA, by Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. and Austin Sarat (eds). Antonio will discussion the connection between race and the death penalty that has played a role in American history. Additionally he will address the different viewpoints expressed with the book and how they interconnect.
Damaris will discuss the book Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States, by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva. Damaris will explore how the book addresses the nature and components of post-civil rights racial ideology.
Brandon will discuss the book Discrimination By Default: How Racism Becomes Routine, by Lu-In Wang. Brandon will focus on how the book addresses man discriminatory practices that have become masked in the patterns of of “normal” and “reasonable” conduct.
Please come with questions and ideas. We welcome all students to this education experience and look forward to addressing some of the racial topics that often go overlooked. If you have any questions please contact Brandon Craig at craigbr@email.uc.edu.
University of Cincinnati College of Law is the fourth oldest continually running law school in the United States and a founding member of the Association of American Law Schools. It was started in 1833 as the Cincinnati Law School. Then-dean and future 27th President of the United States, William Howard Taft (1880), merged it with the University of Cincinnati in 1896.