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Structural Racism in the United States: Engaging the Interstices of Migration, Indigenous Peoples鈥� Rights, and the Legacies of Settler Colonialism

O鈥媍tober 6-7, 2022
Gasson 100

鈥婽his 1.5 day 鈥媠ymposium听鈥媤ill听explore the nature, history, legal, and institutional and societal instantiations of structural racism at three particular sites: struggles for self-determination, claims for reparations, and im/migrants鈥� rights claims.鈥�

All day session

Friday, October听7

8:30AM - Continental breakfast | 9:00AM-4:30PM - Symposium program

All day session with听three topical panel presentations followed by a concluding听panel. Current lineup of presenters and topics on the panels:

9:00AM - Welcome and introduction

9:25AM -听Settler Colonialism, 鈥淩ace鈥� and Indigenous Survivance and Resistance

Moderator: Nell Jessup Newton, Professor of Law, Interim Dean, Wake Forest University Law School

Panelists:听

Kyle T. Mays, Associate Professor of African American Studies, American Indian Studies, and History at UCLA.听

"'When Black people are free, all people will be free: Black Freedom, Indigenous Sovereignty, and the Limits of Reparations Discourse"

Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Harry Burns Hutchins Collegiate Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School

"The Duty of Protection for Indian Tribes"

Strong Oak Lefebvre, MSSA: Executive Director and co-founder of the Visioning B.E.A.R. Circle Intertribal Coalition INC.

"Transforming the Culture of Power: Indigenous Perspectives on accountability and healing trauma and thriving"

10:40AM - Coffee break

11:00AM -听Structural Racism and Redress

Moderator: Zine Magubane,听Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Boston College

Panelists:

Thomas Mitchell,听JD, Professor of Law, Boston College听

"Shaping Law and Policy to Redress Long-Established Racist Property Regimes"

Rebecca O. Johnson,听Activist, Author, Grassroots Organizer and Fellow, 2021-22 Alliance for Historical Dialogue & Accountability Fellow,听Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University

"Movement Memorialization and Redress in Southwest Georgia: Honoring the Southwest Georgia Civil Rights Movement and Documenting Institutional Complicity in Black Land Loss and White Land Theft"听

Jeffery Robinson,听JD, Former ACLU Deputy Legal Director; Founder and CEO of the Who We Are听Project; Jerome Lyle Rappaport Distinguished Visiting Professor in Law and Public Policy, 2022-23, Boston College听

"Reparations- Neither New nor Impossible"

12:15PM - Lunch

1:15PM -听Migration, Rights and Reclamations

Moderator:听Raquel Mu帽iz, Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership & Higher Education, Lynch School of Education & Human Development, and Assistant Professor (by courtesy), School of Law, Boston College

Panelists:

Barbara Sostaita, Assistant Professor, Latin American and Latino Studies, U of Illinois, Chicago

听"Transnational Longings, Root Causes of Global Migration, and the Right to Stay Home"

Aziz F. Rana, Professor of Law, Cornell University

听"Settlers and Immigrants in the Formation of U.S. Law"

Robin C. Reineke, Assistant Research Social Scientist, The Southwest Center; Assistant Professor, School of Anthropology University of Arizona; Co-Founder, Colibr铆 Center for Human Rights

"Decolonizing Care at the US-Mexico Border"

2:30PM - coffee break

2:50PM -听Concluding panel

Panel co-chairs & moderators:听 CHRIJ co-directors Brinton Lykes, Professor of Community-Cultural Psychology, 蝌蚪直播 Lynch School of Education and Human Development; and Daniel Kanstroom, Professor of Law, 蝌蚪直播 Law School

Panelists:

Natsu Taylor听Saito,听Regents' Professor听Emerita at Georgia State University鈥檚 College of Law

Kristen Carpenter, Council Tree Professor of Law and American Indian Law Program, University of Colorado

E. Tendayi Achiume,听Professor of Law, and听Alicia Mi帽ana Chair in Law, UCLA Law School

Gabrielle Oliveira,听Jorge Paulo Lemann Associate Professor of Education and of Brazil Studies, Harvard U. Graduate School of Education

4:30PM - End of program

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Symposium co-sponsored听by the 蝌蚪直播 鈥婣frican and African Diaspora Studies鈥� program.鈥�

Continental breakfast and a light lunch to be served.