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Events
Upcoming Events
- October 29th 2009, Thursday, —Gary Orfield, Professor, UCLA Graduate School of Education; and Co-Director of The Civil Rights Project at UCLA. Please visit Dr. Orfield's website here.
"Excluding the Majority: Separate and Unequal Education in Metropolitan
America." 7:00pm in Mendenhall Library, Building 120, 1st Floor
This talk will explore the myth of equal educational opportunity, the policies
that are based on that myth, and the way they smash on the rock of
segregation. The talk will include data from California and racially changing
suburbs and deal with the triple segregation of race or ethnicity, poverty, and
language.
This talk is co-sponsored by:
• The Center for the Study of Poverty and Inequality
• The Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE)
• Department of Sociology, Stanford University
• Stanford University School of Education (SUSE)
• Program in American Studies, Stanford University
• Stanford Law School
Previous Events
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October 30th 2008, Thursday, —Dolores Hayden, Professor of Architecture and American Studies, Yale University. "Building American Suburbia: Seven Landscapes or Only Two?" 7:00-8:15pm, Wallenberg Hall, Theater Room. Co-sponsored by: American Studies, Woods Institute - Sustainable Built Environment, Hume Writing Center, Writing in the Major Program.