Book Talk – Professor Jabari Mahiri on Deconstructing Race

Thursday, September 14, 2017 | 5:00pm – 6:30pm

Social Research Library (227 Haviland Hall)

In his new book, Deconstructing Race: Multicultural Education Beyond the Color-Blind (Teachers College Press, 2017), Professor Jabari Mahiri of UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Education, explores contemporary and historical scholarship on race, the emergence of multiculturalism, and the rise of the digital age. Professor Mahiri examines evolving, highly distinctive micro-cultural identities and affinities, and provides an educational framework for understanding the diversity of individuals and groups.

Books will be available for sale or can be purchased ahead of time (with a 20% discount) on the Teachers College Press website.

Sponsored by: Berkeley Library (Social Sciences Division), Bay Area Writing Project, National Writing Project.

The Library attempts to offer programs in accessible, barrier-free settings. If you think you may require disability-related accommodations, please contact the event sponsor, Margaret Phillips (margaret.phillips@berkeley.edu) as soon as possible.