Wesson Lectures 2002 - 2003
Jennifer
Hochschild, May 5-7, 2003
May
5, 5:45 pm, Building 370, Room 370: "Deconstructing Race and
Constructing a New Ordering"
May 6, 5:45 pm, Building 370, Room 370:"The Politics and Morality
of a Skin Tone Ordering"
May 7, 9 am, Building 60, Room 426: Seminar
Seminar Commentator: Richard Ford, Professor of Law at Stanford
Law School
Jennifer
Hochschild presented two lectures: "Deconstructing Race and
Constructing a New Ordering: and ";The Politics and Morality
of a Skin Tone Ordering".
Hochschild raised several debated claims about the architecture
of race and identity in the United States. "The traditional
nominal racial categories-- black, white, Asian, Hispanic--are
dissolving," said Hochschild. "[And] they may be in the process
of being replaced with a single, interval continuum based on
skin tone." One potential political response to changes in racial
identity might be to substitute racial categories in the U.S.
census and college applications with a skin color chart. Hochschild
admits "That makes all of us cringe," and added "The underlying
research question...is how and how much do we need to rethink
the way we understand the meaning of race in the United States?"
to move forward with democracy in 21st century America.
Jennifer L. Hochschild (Ph.D., Yale University
1979) is a Professor of Government at Harvard University, with
appointments in the Departments of Government and Afro-American
Studies. She studies the intersection of American politics and
political philosophy, particularly in the areas of racial and
ethnic politics and policy, educational and social policy, and
public opinion or political culture. She is the author of Facing
Up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation
(Princeton University Press, 1995); The New American Dilemma:
Liberal Democracy and School Desegregation (Yale University
Press, 1984); What's Fair: American Beliefs about Distributive
Justice(Harvard University Press, 1981) and a co-author of Equalities
(Harvard University Press, 1981). She is a co-editor of Social
Policies for Children (Brookings Institution Press, 1995). Her
forthcoming books are tentatively entitled Madison's Constitution
and Identity Politics (University of Notre Dame Press, 2002)
and The American Dream and the Public Schools (Oxford University
Press, 2002)."
(http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~amciv/faculty/hochschild.shtml)
For
further information about Jennifer Hochschild check out: http://www.apsanet.org/new/hochschild.cfm
http://www.wws.princeton.edu/faculty/hochschild.html
http://www.wws.princeton.edu/faculty/hochschild.html
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