Making Waves: Policing Race
Tuesday 01 March, 2016
6 - 8pm, $0/Rsvp
New York University, Kimmel Center
60 Washington Square South, Rosenthal Pavilion
The third in a series on the brain and behavior. Charlton McIlwain, a race and media scholar, moderates a conversation with a social neuroscientist, an award-winning journalist, a civil rights lawyer, and a biometrics pioneer about racial discrimination and equal justice in the US.
Individually complex, these terms collectively define today’s debates about racial discrimination and equal justice in the United States. Charlton McIlwain, a race and media scholar and an associate professor of media studies at NYU Steinhardt, moderates a conversation with a distinguished social neurosocientist, an award-winning journalist on the inequality and opportunity beat, a technology and civil rights lawyer and researcher, and a biometrics pioneer, about what matters most and what’s at stake for our democratic future.