Critical Race Conference at UCLA

Moderated by faculty members of CRS Program at UCLA,/"Race, Sexuality & the Law: Abercrombie, Imus & Beyond"/ will feature interdisciplinary academic panels exploring the role of law, culture, media and communities in shaping representations of race, gender and sexual orientation. Sponsored in conjunction with the Williams Institute, the nation's leading think tank on sexual orientation law and policy, the Symposium will foreground current events and questions including:

*·** *What are the connections between homoerotic and racially exclusionary images used by retailers, such as Abercrombie & Fitch, and prevailing conceptions of masculinity and beauty?

*·* How do employment laws permit, reproduce or challenge these exclusionary practices?

*·* How do media framings of controversies such as Don Imus' attack on the Rutgers' women's basketball team obscure the intersectional nature of discrimination against women of color?

*·* How do stereotypical representations of people of color and their sexuality in media and entertainment influence interracial interactions and opportunities in workplaces, universities and public spaces?

Launched in April 2007, the CRS Program Symposium is an annual event which brings together academics, practitioners, students and community members to examine leading research on racial justice in an interdisciplinary and intellectually rigorous forum.
The Symposium is free to the public and convenes over 300 people from law schools, ethnic studies and race-related research centers, graduate and undergraduate programs, law firms, legal services organizations and community-based social change agencies from across the country.

To register for this event, please go to
www.law.ucla. edu/home/ apps/crs/ register. aspx

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*The mission of CRS at UCLA is to _think_ new ideas, _teach_ new scholars and_transform_ racial justice advocacy.

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KEYNOTE ADDRESS by:
Dr. Dwight A. McBride
Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Professor of African-American Studies, English, and Gender & Women's Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago

COMMENTARY by:
Russell K. Robinson
Acting Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law

PANELISTS include:
Mary Ann Case
Arnold I. Shure Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School

David L. Eng
Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Program in Asian American Studies, University of Pennsylvania

Cheryl I. Harris
Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law

Phillip A. Goff
Assistant Professor of Psychology, Penn State

Sonia Katyal
Associate Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law

Mignon R. Moore
Assistant Professor of Sociology, UCLA

Dean Spade
Law Teaching Fellow, UCLA School of Law, Williams Institute

MODERATORS:
Devon W. Carbado
Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law

Kimberlé W. Crenshaw
Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law