CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF RACE AND RACE RELATIONS

University of Florida, Levin College of Law

LECTURE AND DISCUSSION FORUM

‘Playing the Race Card’

What is ‘playing the race card’? Are minorities the only ones who do it?

When is it ‘appropriate’ to raise issues of race?

Are accusations of ‘race baiting’ accurate or is this the new face of racism?

The controversial cartoons featured in the Independent Florida Alligator have raised important race and race relations issues. What are your views? Come and participate in the first of a series of open, lively, and provocative discussions.

* * * EVERYONE WELCOME! * * *

Wednesday, November 9, 2005

4:00 - 5:30 pm

Levin College of Law, Holland Hall room 285B

Forum Discussants include:

PEDRO MALAVET, Law professor and author of Puerto Rico: Cultural Nation, American Colony and “Reparations Theory and Postcolonial Puerto Rico: Some Preliminary Thoughts.” Expert in the areas of Civil Procedure, Comparative Law, Critical Race Theory, Evidence, and the Law of U.S. Territorial Possessions.

KENNETH NUNN, Law professor and co-author of “Diversity Matters: Race, Gender and Ethnicity in Legal Education.” And author of “Rosewood”, in When Sorry Isn't Enough: The Controversy Over Apologies And Reparations For Human Injustices. Expert in the areas of Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Race Relations and the Law, Police Brutality, Race and the Criminal Process, and Law and Cultural Studies.

SHARON RUSH, Law professor and author of Loving Across The Color Line: A White Adoptive Mother Learns About Race and co-author of “Doing Anti-Racism: Making an Egalitarian Future.” Expert in the areas of Constitutional Law, Federal Courts, the Fourteenth Amendment, and Children's Rights.