Professor Michael Higginbothem will speak on his recent book,
Ghosts of Jim Crow: Ending Racism in Post-Racial America, published by NYU Press in February 2013. Higginbotham convincingly argues that America remains far away from that imagined utopia when Barack Obama was elected as the first African-American president. Indeed, the shadows of Jim Crow era laws and attitudes continue to perpetuate insidious, systemic prejudice and racism in the 21st century. Higginbotham’s extensive research demonstrates how laws and actions have been used to maintain a racial paradigm of hierarchy and separation—both historically, in the era of lynch mobs and segregation, and today—legally, economically, educationally and socially.
Title:
Ghosts of Jim Crow: Ending Racism in Post-Racial America
Constitution Day Lecture with Professor F. Michael Higginbothem
When/Where:
Tuesday, September 17/2013
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Moot Court Room
Cleveland-Marshall School of Law
1801 Euclid Ave
Cleveland, Ohio 44115
Speaker:
F. Michael Higginbothem is the Wilson H. Elkins Professor of Law at the University of Baltimore School of Law. He teaches courses on constitutional law and race and the law. Before joining the faculty in 1988, Higginbotham was a law clerk to United States Court of Appeals Judge Cecil F. Poole, an associate with Davis, Polk and Wardwell in Washington, D.C., and a lecturer in law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Higginbothem has authored Race Law: Cases, Commentary, and Questions, in 2010. He has published articles in numerous law reviews including the New York University Law Review, University of Hawaii Law Review, Howard University Law Journal, and the University of Illinois Law Review. He is the Chairman of the Board of the Public Justice Center, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the former chairperson of the Association of American Law Schools Committee on Recruitment and Retention of Minority Faculty.
CLE credit:
One hour approved
Cost:
Free
By:
Cleveland-Marshall School of Law
More:
https://www.law.csuohio.edu/newsevents/events/2013091717002021
