Professor Ian Haney López

Ian Haney López is one of the nation's leading thinkers on how racism has evolved in the United States since the civil rights era. He is the author of three books and his writings have appeared across a range of sources, from the Yale Law Journal to the New York Times. Haney López's current research emphasizes the connection between racial divisions in society and growing wealth inequality in the United States. His most recent book, Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class, lays bare how conservative politicians exploit racial pandering to convince many voters to support policies that ultimately favor the very rich and hurt everyone else. Haney López has written books on the legal construction of both white and Latino racial identity, respectively White by Law and Racism on Trial. A constitutional law scholar, he has also written extensively on how once-promising legal responses to racism have been turned into restrictions on efforts to promote integration.

“Race, Politics, and Education”
Wednesday, September 24th, 2014, 4:30pm to 6:30pm
SAEC 1st Floor Auditorium
Light Refreshments will be served.

Co-sponored by the College of Education, the Department of Educational Leadership & Policy (ELP), the Ethnic Studies Program, the Urban Institute for Teacher Education (UITE), and the Utah Education Policy Center (UEPC).