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Panel looks at identity issues, Feb. 22
Posted February 12, 2006; 01:47 p.m.
A panel discussion on “Injustice, Intolerance and Intersectional
Identity” is set for 6 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 22, in 101 McCormick.
Led by Kwame Anthony Appiah, the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of
Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values, the discussion
will explore the roles of the media, the police and the public in
normalizing violence against individuals who are at the intersection of
marginal identity categories.
Appiah will be joined by Clarence Patton of the National Coalition of
Anti-Violence Programs and Rashad Robinson of the Gay and Lesbian
Alliance Against Defamation in analyzing how intersectional identity
informs the management of hate crimes in America.
The discussion will draw primarily upon the unsolved murder of
19-year-old Rashawn Brazell, a black gay man from Brooklyn whose
dismembered body parts were found in garbage bags throughout the
borough's subways in February 2005. Desire Brazell, his mother, will
make the opening remarks.
Appiah
is an internationally renowned scholar of moral and political
philosophy, African and African-American studies, and issues of
personal and political identity, multiculturalism and nationalism. He
has written numerous award-winning books, including "The Ethics of
Identity" and "Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race."
The event is sponsored by the Program in African American Studies,
the Black Graduate Caucus, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender
Center, the Graduate School, the Fields Center, the Black Student Union
and the Queer Graduate Caucus.