Can We Talk About Racism
September 28, 2022
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Linda C. McClain's Who’s the Bigot traces the themes and rhetoric of prejudice, bigotry, ignorance, and animus in the law and public debate over civil rights, marriage and recognition of the rights of of gays and lesbians. The Robert Kent Professor of Law at Boston University and a graduate of the University of Chicago Divinity School, Professor MacClain's careful history pays close attention to the participation of religious advocates in the developing law.
McClain joins a conversation by two writers who have reflected on the problems of bias among American Catholics, and Latino Americans. LaSalle University Professor of Christian Ethics Maureen O’Connell plumbs her own family’s history in Undoing the Knots Five Generations of American Catholic Anti-Blackness. Tanya Kateri Hernandez too looks inward in her newly published Racial Innocence Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality. The Archibald R. Murray Professor of Law at Fordham, she is also the author of Multiracials and Civil Rights.
Panelists
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Author and Boston U. Law Professor
Fordham Law Professor
LaSalle University Theology Professor
Moderator
