Race, Sexuality & the Law: Abercrombie, Imus & Beyond

Date/Time :	03/07/08 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Location :	UCLA School of Law
Organizer :	Saul Sarabia
Sponsor :	Critical Race Studies in conjunction with the Williams Institute
Website :	www.law.ucla.edu/crs
Address :	405 Hilgard Avenue Los Angeles California 90095
Description :

Moderated by faculty members of CRS Program at UCLA, "Race, Sexuality & the Law: Abercrombie, Imus & Beyond," will feature interdisciplinary academic panels exploring the role of law, culture, media and communities in shaping representations of race, gender and sexual orientation. Sponsored in conjunction with the Williams Institute, the nation's leading think tank on sexual orientation law and policy, the symposium will foreground current events and questions including:

· What are the connections between homoerotic and racially exclusionary images used by retailers, such as Abercrombie & Fitch, and prevailing conceptions of masculinity and beauty?

· How do employment laws permit, reproduce or challenge these exclusionary practices?

· How do media framings of controversies such as Don Imus’ attack on the Rutgers’ women’s basketball team obscure the intersectional nature of discrimination against women of color?

· How do stereotypical representations of people of color and their sexuality in media and entertainment influence interracial interactions and opportunities in workplaces, universities and public spaces?

Launched in April 2007, the CRS Program Symposium is an annual event that brings together academics, practitioners, students and community members to examine leading research on racial justice in an interdisciplinary and intellectually rigorous forum. The Symposium is free to the public and convenes over 300 people from law schools, ethnic studies and race-related research centers, graduate and undergraduate programs, law firms, legal services organizations and community-based social change agencies from across the country.

Confirmed Speakers:

Keynote Address: Dr. Dr. Dwight A. McBride, Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Professor of African-American Studies, English, and Gender & Women's Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago.

Commentary By: Professor Russell K. Robinson, Acting Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law

Panelists:
Mary Ann Case, Arnold I. Shure Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
David L. Eng, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Program in Asian American Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Cheryl I. Harris, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
Phillip A. Goff, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Penn State
Sonia Katyal, Associate Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law
Mignon R. Moore, Assistant Professor of Sociology, UCLA
Dean Spade, Law Teaching Fellow, UCLA School of Law, Williams Institute

Moderators:
Devon W. Carbado, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
Kimberle W. Crenshaw, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law

To register for the event, please click here.

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