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Participants will engage the toughest questions, surfacing
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The conference produced an extraordinary outpouring of cutting
edge new research and thinking on race in America from many
disciplines. More than 550 proposals were received and the
conference saw the presentation and discussion of many new
studies. The work emphasized the transformed multiracial population
in the United States and its implications for the new policy
and research questions of the 21st century.
Panels Themes include, among others (see Agenda for
specific days & times):
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Conceptualizing the Racial Order in the 21st Century
- The Determinants and Dynamics of “Racial” Identity
- Color-Consciousness or Color-Blindness? Risks and Imperatives
- Black-Brown Relations at a Crossroads
- Transforming White Privilege and Power: White Cultural
Workers Reflect on Their Roles
- Negotiating Multiethnic Inequality: Lessons from Abroad
- Racial Pedagogy in an Era of Ambivalence and Ambiguity About
Race
- Native Americans and Civil Rights
- Political Enfranchisement Along the Color Line
- Segregation, Public Policy, and Moral Responsibility
- The Ambiguous Status of Race-Conscious Legal Remedies in a Multiracial, "Post-Civil
Rights" Era
- Assessing the Promise of Multiracial Coalitions
- Religion, Racial Justice, and Civic Life
Beyond Equity: Extending the Diversity Defense
- Polarized Racial Attitudes and Blame: Welfare, Crime, and Reparations
- Voting Rights
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The New Geography of Latino Settlement
- The Politics of Neighborhood Diversity
- Macro-Level and Institutional Barriers to Residential
Integration
- Lessons from Brown (I): Consequences for Districts, Students,
and Parents
- Lessons from Brown (II): A New Demographic Landscape
and Alternative Remedies to School Segregation
- The Implications of Residential Segregation for Individuals
and Groups
- Metropolitan Economic Equity in Boston
- Ethnic Fluidity Among the Hip Hop Generation
- Labor Flows and Relations Along the Color Line
- The “Integrated” Workplace: Opportunities
and Challenges
- Impact of Arrest-Incarceration-Release on Urban Communities
of Color: Escaping the False Choice Between Community Victimization
and Incarceration
- The Organization of African-American Opportunity Structures
- The U.S. Labor Movement Into the 21st Century
- Diversity in Higher Education: Accomplishments, Threats,
and the Search for Alternative Policies
- Inequality in K-12 Educational Opportunity: The Historic
and Continuing Significance of Race
- Inequality in Higher Education: The Historic and Continuing
Significance of Race
- Race, Ethnicity, Public Health and Health Policy
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