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Center on Race and Social Problems, Birth of a White Nation: The Invention of White People and It’s Relevance Today
November 11, 2015 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
As part of the Fall 2015 Speaker Series, the Center on Race and Social Problems will host Dr. Jacqueline Battalora from Saint Xavier University on Wednesday, 11 November from noon until 1:30PM in 2017 Cathedral of Learning.
We hope you will be able to join us.
“Birth of a White Nation: The Invention of White People and Its Relevance Today”
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
12:00PM ~ 1:30PM
2017 Cathedral of Learning
Introducer: Waverly Duck Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh
Waverly Duck is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Pittsburgh, having previously held post-doctoral positions at the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University. He is widely regarded as an expert on poverty, race, and gender relations, community order, and the drug trade. His ethnography of a small Northeaster city, Precarious Living: The Orderliness of African-American Poverty, will be published by the University of Chicago Press. His areas of interest include Urban Ethnography, Qualitative Methods, Interaction, Ethnomethodology, Cultural Sociology and Inequality (with a particular focus on Race, Class, Gender and Age). His research interests focus primarily on inequality using ethnographic methods to study the orderliness of recognizable situated practices concerning gender, race, age and class.
Speaker: Jacqueline Battalora Attorney and Professor, Saint Xavier University
Jacqueline Battalora was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and lived in Antwerp, Belgium for six years before her family relocated to Victoria, Texas. The experience of attending high school and middle school in Texas formed her understanding of race in America. While she is currently a lawyer and professor of sociology and criminal justice at Saint Xavier University, she is also a former Chicago Police officer. She holds a Ph.D. from Northwestern University and has been engaged in anti-racist training since the mid-1990s.
In support of the “Burgh Baby Diaper Drive”, we invite you to bring diapers or a donation to support the Western Pennsylvania Diaper Bank. Donations are not required for admittance.
CRSP would like to extend thanks to Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney, PC for making our Speaker Series possible through their generosity and hard work.
Lunch is provided. Registration is not required.