Be The Change Author Talks
THE COLOR OF LAW
Richard Rothstein in conversation with Susan D. Anderson
Thursday, February 4, 2021, 6:30 p.m. (PST)
Richard Rothstein discusses his book The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How our Government Segregated America in conversation with Susan D. Anderson, History Curator and Program Manager at the California African American Museum. The Color of Law expands upon and provides a national perspective on his recent work that has documented the history of state-sponsored residential segregation.
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In The Color of Law, Richard Rothstein argues with exacting precision and fascinating insight how segregation in America—the incessant kind that continues to dog our major cities and has contributed to so much recent social strife—is the byproduct of explicit government policies at the local, state, and federal level.
A former columnist for the New York Times and a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute, as well as a Fellow at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Rothstein has spent years documenting the evidence that government not merely ignored discriminatory practices in the residential sphere, but promoted them. The impact has been devastating for generations of African-Americans who were denied the right to live where they wanted to live, and raise and school their children where they thought best.
The Color of Law expands upon and provides a national perspective on Rothstein’s recent work that has documented the history of state-sponsored residential segregation.
Richard Rothstein is a Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Policy Institute and a fellow of the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and of the Haas Institute at the University of California (Berkeley).
WINTER COUNTS
A conversation with David Heska Wanbli Weiden
Monday, November 30, 2020, 6:30pm-7:30pm
Author and Professor of Native American Studies and Political Science David Heska Wanbli Weiden will discuss his new novel, Winter Counts.
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Winter Counts is the story of a local Native American enforcer on the Rosebud Indian Reservation who becomes obsessed with finding and stopping the dealer who is bringing increasingly dangerous drugs into his community. It’s a Native thriller, an examination of the broken criminal justice system on reservations, and a meditation on Native identity.
Winter Counts received rave reviews from New York Times, Los Angeles Time, O, the Oprah Magazine, Washington Post, BuzzFeed, AARP Magazine, and Time Magazine.
David Heska Wanbli Weiden, an enrolled member of the Sicangu Lakota nation, is also the author of the children’s book Spotted Tail, a biography of the great Lakota leader and winner of the 2020 Spur Award from the Western Writers of America. An active member of the Mystery Writers of America, Mr. Weiden received his MFA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts, his law degree from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin.
IN THE COURTS OF THE CONQUEROR
Walter R. Echo-Hawk in conversation with W. Richard West Jr.
Thursday, November 5, 2020, 6:30pm-7:30pm
Author and attorney Walter R. Echo-Hawk will discuss his book, In the Courts of the Conqueror: The 10 Worst Indian Law Cases Ever Decided, in conversation with Autry Museum President and Chief Executive W. Richard West Jr.
In the Courts of the Conqueror examines ten Supreme Court cases that changed the fate of Native Americans, provides the contemporary historical/political context of each case, and explains how the decisions have adversely affected the cultural survival of Native people to this day.
Among Mr. Echo-Hawk’s most important contributions to Native American rights was his involvement in the development and passage of The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), a Federal law passed in 1990. His other books include In the Light of Justice: The Rise of Human Rights in Native America & the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples that explores the proposition that Native American rights are inalienable human rights and urges Indian Country to work toward the human rights framework created by the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
His newest book, The Sea of Grass: A Family Tale from the American Heartland, is a historical novel in the manner of Alex Haley’s Roots, in which Echo-Hawk chronicles the lives and times of ten generations of his Pawnee Indian family in the Central Plains of America.
Walter R. Echo-Hawk is a lawyer, tribal judge, scholar, author, and activist. His legal experience includes cases involving Native American religious freedom, prisoner rights, water rights, treaty rights, and reburial\repatriation rights. He is admitted to practice law before the United States Supreme Court, Colorado Supreme Court, Oklahoma Supreme Court, U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Eighth, Ninth, District of Columbia, and Tenth Circuits, and a host of federal District.
Glendale Library, Arts & Culture’s (GLAC) and the Southern California Library Cooperative’s Be The Change series is focused on: Inclusion – Diversity – Equity – Antiracism. Be The Change events will build collective understanding of systemic racism, elevate the voices and stories of Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC), and inspire our community to be the change.