'Reimagining American Democracy and Racial Justice' — Race, Democracy, and Public Policy

The Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the LBJ School of Public Affairs hosted its inaugural conference beginning Feb. 8, 2016. The conference, "Race, Democracy, and Public Policy in America," brought together nationally recognized scholars, activists and students to analyze the intersection of race and policy from LBJ’s Great Society to the Age of Barack Obama and Black Lives Matter.

The conference exemplifies the scholarly activities that will form the core of the mission of CSRD: seeking to lead a public conversation about the very meaning of racial, social and political justice; and being a source for expert scholarly and research opinions on race and democracy.

This panel includes Edwin Dorn (Professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin), Elizabeth Hinton (Assistant Professor in the Department History and the Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University), Peniel Joseph (Professor and Founding Director, Center for the Study of Race and Democracy, LBJ School of Public Affairs and Professor, Department of History, The University of Texas at Austin), and Laurence Ralph (John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences in the Departments of Anthropology and African and African American Studies, Harvard University).