Over the last half century, political and intellectual discourse has made us aware of the complex and multidimensional relationships between social “difference” and “inequality.” In this global age, the intersections of gender, class, race, sexuality, age, ability, and nationality provide rich contexts for exploring the production and management of “difference” in everyday lives of communities; emerging multiple and intersecting identities; the dynamics of power and marked “bodies;” and social processes of exclusions and production of hierarchies. Session I: Exploiting Difference: Immigrant Experience and Citizenship In this first part of a three-part conference held annually by William Paterson University's College of Humanities & Social Sciences, Drs. Alyshia Gálvez and Michael Innis-Jiménez address the incongruities and injustices faced by today's U.S. immigrants as they attempt to assimilate into contemporary American society. Dr. Alyshia Gálvez is an Associate Professor and Director of the Jaime Lucero Mexican Studies Institute at Lehman College/City University of New York. Dr. Michael Innis-Jiménez is an Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Alabama.
Keynote Address: The Fire This Time: Race, Policing, and the Psychology of Justice in Contemporary America In this Keynote Address -- the second part of a three-part conference held annually by William Paterson University's College of Humanities & Social Sciences -- Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff, Associate Professor of Social Psychology at UCLA and the co-founder and president for research at the Center for Policing Equity, speaks on racial bias and discrimination by illustrating how contextual and/or institutional factors impact racially unequal outcomes.
Session II: Fearing Difference: Terror and the "Other" In this third and final session of William Paterson University's annual College of Humanities & Social Sciences multidisciplinary conference, Drs. Jeanne Theoharis and Arun Kundnani address the state of civil liberties and anti-Muslim prejudice in post-9/11 America. Dr. Theoharis is a professor of political science at Brooklyn College, and Dr. Kundnani is an author and journalist from London Metropolitan University and an instructor at New York University.
