Dr. Devon Carbado to Give a Public Lecture at St. Olaf College

Is race merely a matter of phenotype, or does it come from the inflection of a person's speech, the clothes in her closet, how she chooses to spend her time and with whom she chooses to spend it?   What does it mean to be "really" black, and who gets to make that judgment?




Dr. Devon Carbado will be addressing these questions in his public lecture based on the book he co-wrote with Mitu Gulati, “Acting White?  Rethinking Race in ‘Post-Racial’ America”.  

Dr. Devon Carbado is the Honorable Harry Pregerson Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law. He teaches Constitutional Criminal Procedure, Constitutional Law, Critical Race Theory, and Criminal Adjudication.   He has established himself as a nationally recognized figure in the field of Critical Race Theory and he is actively involved with shaping a nationwide discourse on race, identity, and the law. He writes in the areas of Critical Race Theory, employment discrimination, criminal procedure, constitutional law, and identity. He is faculty director of the Critical Race Studies Program at UCLA Law School, a faculty associate of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, a board member of the African American Policy Forum.
This event is sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Affairs and the President's Office of Institutional Diversity at St. Olaf College and free and open to all.  Please contact the Office of Multicultural Affairs at 507-786-3060 or visit:  http://wp.stolaf.edu/mca/ for more information.