The Mellon-funded U.S. Law and Race Initiative Webinar Series explores new approaches to research, teaching, and public engagement with the history of law, race, and racialization in the United States. Moderated and hosted by Katrina Jagodinsky, Jeannette Eileen Jones, and William G. Thomas III, the webinar series features guest speakers, scholars, lawyers, jurists, community members, students, and others who are doing innovative and inspiring work to help us understand the development of U.S. law and race.
Recordings of previous webinars are available on the U.S. Law and Race Initiative's MediaHub Channel.
Fall 2024 Series Schedule
The Insular Cases and Contested Citizenship
Robert McGreevey (College of New Jersey)
October 29, 9:30-10:30 am CT
Zoom Event
Join our HIST 115: And Justice For All class for a discussion with guest speaker Professor Robert McGreevey, author of Borderline Citizens: The United States, Puerto Rico, and the Politics of Colonial Migration.
Asian Americans Confront U.S. Law and Policy: A Case Study of the Vietnamese Impact on Defining the "Refugee"
Linda Ho Peché (Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive)
November 21 , 9:30-10:30 am CT
Zoom Event
Join our HIST 115: And Justice For All class for a discussion with guest speaker Professors Linda Ho Peché, moderated by Mellon Research Assistant Professor Donna D. Anderson, about immigration law and Asian-American legal perspectives in U.S. history.
The Carceral State: Legal Histories of American Unfreedom
Taja-Nia Henderson (Rutgers University-Newark)
November 26, 9:30-10:30 am CT
Zoom Event
Join our HIST 115: And Justice For All class for a discussion on the Carceral State with guest speaker Professor Taja-Nia Henderson, author of The Ironic Promise of the Thirteenth Amendment for Offender Anti-Discrimination Law, moderated by Danielle Jefferis from UNL's College of Law.
Previous Webinars
From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in the 20th Century U.S.
Alicia Gutierrez-Romine (California State University, San Bernardino)
April 18, 2024
Vanguard: Black Women and the Right to Vote
Martha S. Jones (Johns Hopkins University)
April 9, 2024
Killers of the Flower Moon Roundtable Discussion
Angel Hinzo, Anne Gregory (UNL), Jordana Bass (Vision Maker Media), Renee Sans Souci (Community Educator)
March 27, 2024
Equal Protection, Reconstruction, and the Meaning of the 14th Amendment
Sharlene Sinegal-DeCuir (Xavier University) and Kate Masur (Northwestern University)
November 2, 2023
Affirmative Action's Origins and Legacies
Eric Berger, Danielle Jefferis, and Catherine Wilson (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
October 26, 2023
U.S. Constitutionalism and Native American Sovereignty
Ned Blackhawk (Yale)
September 28, 2023