The Color Line: A Short Introduction
This symposium celebrates the publication of “The Color Line: A Short Introduction” by David Lyons, followed by a panel discussion.
Monday, March 15th 2021
12:45 – 2:00 pm
Welcome Remarks by David Webber
Panel Discussion Moderated by Jack Beermann
Commentators
Paula Austin, Assistant Professor of History and African American Studies; Director of Graduate Studies, Boston University
Jasmine Gonzales Rose, Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law
Lisa Rivera, Associate Professor, UMASS Boston
The Color Line provides a concise history of the role of race and ethnicity in the US, from the early colonial period to the present, to reveal the public policies and private actions that have enabled racial subordination and the actors who have fought against it.
Focusing on Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, and Latino Americans, it explores how 
racial subordination developed in the region, how it has been resisted and opposed, and how it has been sustained through independence, the abolition of slavery, the civil rights movement, and subsequent reforms. The text also considers the position of European immigrants to the US, interrogates relevant moral issues, and identifies persistent problems of public policy, arguing that all four centuries of racial subordination are relevant to understanding contemporary America and some of its most urgent issues.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars of American history, the history of race and ethnicity, and other related courses in the humanities and social sciences.
David Lyons is Professor Emeritus at Boston University, Massachusetts, USA. He previously taught at Cornell University in New York from 1964 to 1995. Focusing on moral and political theory, his previous books range from Forms and Limits of Utilitarianism (1965) to Confronting Injustice (2013).
This event will be presented as a Zoom Webinar.
For questions about physical accessibility or to request a communication-related accommodation ( e.g. ASL Interpreters, Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART); assistive listening devices; hearing or induction loops), please contact (lawevent@bu.edu). Please submit requests for accommodations as soon as possible, ideally no later than 10 business days prior to the event.