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Inequality and the American Dream

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You might be asking what I do with my massive amount of free time. Between writing books, commuting 500 miles one way to see my wife, blogging, teaching, watching the Ducks, listening to people drone on about academic assessment, traveling the nation making fun of dead famous Americans while literally standing on top of them, making various commenters uncomfortable by writing about bands they have never heard of, engaging in condiment wars, and buying an endless supply of pleated khakis, I have a lot of extra time.

One of ways I’ve spent those many hours of spare time is co-organizing the 2016 University of Rhode Island Honors Colloquium around the theme of “Inequality and the American Dream.” There’s a course surrounding it which is not of interest to you all. But there’s also a series of 9 speakers through the semester. It’s open to the public. Those of you in southern New England should attend. It’s a great set of speakers on this critical topic. The speakers are:

9/20–Victoria DeFrancesco Soto, fellow at the Center for Politics and Governance at the LBJ School at the University of Texas-Austin and frequent MSNBC commenter, talking about immigration and inequality

9/27–KimberlĂ© Crenshaw, Professor of Law at UCLA and one of the founders of critical race theory, talking about intersectionality, race, and structural inequality.

10/4–Jefferson Cowie, Professor of History at Vanderbilt and author of the new book The Great Exception: The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics, placing inequality and labor in a historical perspective

10/11–Deanna Trella and Tim Hilton, professors of Children’s Studies and Social Work at Eastern Washington University, talking about child poverty and homelessness.

10/18–Caroline Fredrickson, President of the American Constitution Society and author of Under the Bus: How Working Women Get Run Over, talking about gender discrimination and inequality.

10/25–Saru Jayaraman, Director of the Food Labor Research Center at the University of California-Berkeley and founder of Restaurant Opportunities Center United, the grassroots union of restaurant workers, talking about her work on low-wage labor and injustice.

11/1–John Nichols, the writer for The Nation and other progressive publications and a man who has said too many nice things about me over the years, talking about politics and inequality in the Citizens United era.

11/15–Gerry Hudson, Secretary-Treasurer for the Service Employees International Union, talking about the labor movement.

11/29–Jelani Cobb, historian formerly at UConn and now at Columbia and a person well-known for his writing in The New Yorker, speaking on Black Lives Matter and related issues.

The whole thing is going to be great. All events are open to the public. Drop me a line if you have any questions.

Now back to filling up more of my endless free time.

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