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Critical Race Feminisms: Women of Color and the Law

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April 19, 2007 from 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Room 280A
Stanford Law School

This panel discussion will provide an overview of the development and evolution of critical race feminism in legal discourse; examine the specific challenges faced by women of color in the legal profession, and report on community and legal activism around issues faced by women of color from a lens of race, gender, class, sexuality, and global justice.

Panelists

  • Rebecca Hall, UC Berkeley, author, "Not Killing Me Softly: African American Women, Slave Revolts, and Historical Constructions of Racialized Gender"
  • Sora Y. Han, UC Berkeley, author, "The Bonds of Representation: Race, Law, and the Feminine in Post-Civil Rights America"
  • Monica Ramirez, ACLU, Immigrations' Rights Project

Moderator

  • Jayashri Srikantiah, Stanford Law School, Director, Immigrations' Rights Clinic

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Admission

The event is open to all members of the Stanford Law School community and the greater Stanford, and Palo Alto communities.