Blackboard Jungle 12 Symposium
Engaging Inclusivity, Practicing Civility, and Shaping Learning Communities for Today and Beyond
March 21 and March 22, 2019

How U.S. Law and Policy Divides Us

This lecture begins with a consideration of law created by the nations’ founders that gave unearned advantage and disadvantage ensuring that lives of people would be dramatically different. Immigration policy, marriage law, and naturalization are considered through the 19th and 20th Centuries for what they reveal about the range of experience in the U.S. for those seen as white and for various groups seen as not white. The material exposes the roots of the white = American equation. This lecture is intended to follow Going Back To Go Forward and advances a knowledge base well beyond an introductory level.

Speaker: Dr. Jacqueline Battalora

Host: Dr. Kathy Fox