NYU School of Law: Racial Progress and Backlash in a Diversifying America
Racial Progress and Backlash in a Diversifying America
Thursday, November 11, 2021, 1:00PM - 2:00PM
Via Zoom
Many demographers predict that the United States will become a “majority-minority” nation as early as the 2040s. Jennifer Richeson, a renowned social psychologist at Yale University, has conducted cutting-edge research into the political and psychological dynamics of changing racial and ethnic demographics.
Join Professor Richeson for a wide-ranging conversation with Professor Kenji Yoshino, Director of the Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging, on the narrative of racial progress, recent debates over “critical race theory,” and the future of race relations in a rapidly diversifying America.
This event is part of the Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging speaker series and is cosponsored by the Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law. The series is sponsored by:
Cleary Gottlieb;
Cravath, Swaine & Moore;
Davis Polk & Wardwell;
DLA Piper;
Latham & Watkins;
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison;
Sullivan & Cromwell;
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz;
Weil, Gotshal & Manges; and
White & Case
Speakers
Jennifer A. Richeson, PhD
Philip R. Allen Professor of Psychology @Yale University
For over 20 years, Professor Richeson has conducted research on the social psychology of cultural diversity. Specifically, she examines processes of mind and brain that influence how people experience diversity, with a primary focus on the dynamics that create, sustain, and sometimes challenge societal inequality. Professor Richeson is an elected member of both the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her empirical and theoretical work has been published in numerous scholarly journals and popular publications. In 2006, she was named one of 25 MacArthur “Genius” Fellows for her work "highlighting and analyzing major challenges facing all races in America and in the continuing role played by prejudice and stereotyping in our lives," and, in 2019 she received an honorary doctorate from Brown University for work that “expands the boundaries of knowledge on interracial interaction and the living contexts of diversity.”
Kenji Yoshino
Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law, Faculty Director of the Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belongin @NYU School of Law
Kenji Yoshino is the Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law at NYU School of Law. He is an East Coast native, now living in NYC with his husband and two children. Kenji studied at Harvard, Oxford, and Yale Law School. His fields are constitutional law, anti-discrimination law, and law and literature. He has received several distinctions for his teaching and research, including the Podell Distinguished Teaching Award in 2014, the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award in 2016, an honorary degree from Pomona College in 2018, and the Peck Medal in Jurisprudence in 2021. Kenji is the author of three books and has published in major academic journals. He also serves on the Board of the Brennan Center for Justice, advisory boards for diversity and inclusion at Charter Communications and Morgan Stanley, and on the board of his children’s school. Together with the Executive Director, David Glasgow, he is writing a book focused on how to have diversity conversations.