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Foreman Lecture on Race and Politics with Dr. Paula McClain
February 19, 2015
This year’s Forman Lecture on Race and Politics featured Dr. Paula McClain who gave a riviting discussion on the findings of her latest research, Black Americans and Latino Immigrants in a Southern City: Friendly Neighbors or Economic Competitors? The talk was on Thursday, Feb. 19 at 6 p.m. in the Pugh Hall Ocora.
Paula D. McClain is a professor of political science and public policy and Dean of The Graduate School and Vice Provost for Graduate Education at Duke University. A Howard University Ph.D., her primary research interests are in racial minority group politics, particularly inter-minority political and social competition, and urban politics. Her articles have appeared in numerous journals, and her 1990 book, Race, Place and Risk: Black Homicide in Urban America, co-authored with Harold W. Rose, won the National Conference of Black Political Scientists’ 1995 Best Book Award for a previously published book that has made a substantial and continuing contribution. Westview Press published the sixth edition of her book, Can We All Get Along? Racial and Ethnic Minorities in American Politics, coauthored with Joseph Stewart, Jr. in 2013. The first edition in 1995 won the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America Award for Outstanding Scholarship on the Subject of Intolerance, 1996.
This event is sponsored by the African American Studies Program, Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research, Department of History, Center for Latin American Studies, the Department of Political Science and the Bob Graham Center for Public Service.
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