All are welcome to attend:
Tuesday, September 15
1 – 1:50 p.m.
Bulmer Telecommunications Center Auditorium
A reception, sponsored by the Student Senate, follows the presentation
The Four Horsemen of Structural Racism:
Income Inequality, the Changing Structures of Cities, the Underdevelopment of Black Neighborhoods and Individual White Racism – and How They Relate to the Ferguson, Missouri Case
The killing of Michael Brown on August 9, 2014, shattered the myth of a post-racial America and forced the nation to once again confront its ugly legacy of racism and violence. However, there is more to this story than the police shooting of yet another black man. Henry Louis Taylor Jr., Ph.D., professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning and founding director of the Center for Urban Studies at the University at Buffalo, probes the Ferguson experience by analyzing what he calls the Four Horsemen of Structural Racism: unequal distribution of wealth, metropolitan city building, the neoliberal housing market and individual white racism. The racist dynamics that created Ferguson, he argues, are operative in most cities and metropolitan regions across America.
Contact the Dwight Marvin Library for more information.
Published: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 12:20:29 +0000 by b.hazard