Symposium on Structural Violence in Philadelphia and Baltimore

Symposium on Structural Violence in Philadelphia and Baltimore

Wednesday, November 4, 2015 . 4PM
Symposium on Structural Violence in Philadelphia and Baltimore

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The Bahá'í Chair for World Peace presents a Symposium on Structural Violence in Philadelphia and Baltimore with Dr. Jooyoung Lee and Dr. Joseph B. Richardson, Jr.

  • Dr. Lee, Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto, Canada will discuss "Beyond the White Tunnel: The Social Construction of Near Death in Black Philadelphia.”
  • Dr. Richardson, Jr., Associate Professor in the African-American Studies Department and Director of the Violence Intervention Research Project at the University of Maryland, will examine "#FreddieGray: The Anatomy of Structural and Interpersonal Violence in Black Baltimore.”

For further information, please visit http://bahai.umd.edu/StructuralRacism11415.​

Co-sponsored with Sociology Department’s Critical Race Initiative.