College of Law to Host Lecture on Occupy Wall Street: Why Americans Have Trouble Talking About Inequality

Professor Angela Harris of the University of California, Davis, School of Law, will present the lecture “The Occupy Wall Street Blues: Why Americans Have Trouble Talking About Inequality” as the 2012 Stanley M. Chesley Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law on January 11 at 12:15 p.m. in Room 114 at the law school.  In her address, Professor Harris will discuss some of the reasons, legal and political, Americans have trouble talking about race, class, and structural inequality in particular.  This event will be webcast. For more information about the event and Professor Harris, visit the

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