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Speaker Tommie Shelby; Department of African and African American Studies, Department of Philosophy, Harvard University
Date Mar 30, 2012
Time 4:00 pm
Location Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum; 600 South Gregory Street, Urbana
Cost Free and Open to the Public
Sponsor Center for Advanced Study
Contact Liesel Wildhagen
E-Mail wildhage@illinois.edu
Phone 217-333-6729
Event type Lecture
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Originating Calendar Center for Advanced Study
Ghettos in the U.S. are predominantly black metropolitan neighborhoods with high concentrations of poverty. Tommie Shelby will examine the limitations of technocratic and paternalistic solutions to the problem of ghetto poverty and look for ways to engage the ghetto poor as potential allies in the fight against injustice rather than seeing them solely as the passive beneficiaries of liberal reform efforts.
NOTE: this is also the Annual Piilosophy Lecture
