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PATRICIA WILLIAMS, "Transcending Race" |
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The Loyce Stewart Memorial Fund Distinguished Lecture
PROFESSOR PATRICIA WILLIAMS
James L. Dohr Professor of Law, Columbia University
"Transcending Race: Race Gender, and the U.S. Presidential Elections"
October 19, 2007, 8pm
UB Center for the Arts
112 Screening Room
North Campus
This event is free and open to the public
Patricia J. Williams is the James L. Dohr Professor of Law at Columbia
Law School, a columnist on legal, gender, and racial issues for The
Nation, and the recipient of a recent MacArthur Fellowship for her
provocative work on U.S. race relations and her innovative
interdisciplinary approach to writing. In the 1970s, Williams was a
deputy city attorney for Los Angeles and staff attorney for the
Western Center on Law and Poverty. She taught law in the 1980s at
Golden Gate University, City University of New York, and University of
Wisconsin, Madison, before joining Columbia's faculty in 1992. Among
her numerous writings are the acclaimed books The Alchemy of Race and
Rights: A Diary of a Law Professor (1991) and Seeing a Color-blind
Future: The Paradox of Race (1998). She appears frequently on
television and in documentary films, wrote and narrated a short film
critical of talk radio and television (That Rush!), and serves on the
board of Wellesley College.
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