Department of African American Studies
Yale University
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I used to want the words, "She tried," on my tombstone. Now I want "She did it."
~ Katherine Dunham

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Don't play what's there, play what's not there."
~ Miles Davis

“We are each other’s magnitude and bond.”
~ Gwendolyn Brooks

"Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it."
~ James Baldwin

The emotional, sexual and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: "It's a girl."
~ Shirley Chisholm

Wade in the water, Wade in the water, children. Wade in the water, God's goin' to trouble the water.
~ African American Spiritual

Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.
~ Satchel Paige

“The Philosophy of Racial Justice: Urgency, Imagination, and Method”

Christopher LeBron
Research Fellow in Political Science, Yale University

March 07, 2013
Gordon Parks Room (201, 81 Wall Street)
11:45am – 1:15pm

Chris Lebron is a Research Fellow in Political Science at Yale. He is the author of The Color of Our Shame: Race and Justice In Our Time, forthcoming from Oxford University Press and "The Agony Of A Racial Democracy", a contribution to Theory & Event's symposium on the shooting of Trayvon Martin. Chris received his PhD in Political Science from MIT. His new book, From A Human Point of View: An Articulate Account of Racial Egalitarianism extends the themes of racial justice and social value explored in The Color Of Our Shame.

Sponsored by the Department of African American Studies