Ghettos in the U.S. are predominantly black metropolitan neighborhoods with high concentrations of poverty. Tommie Shelby will examine the limitations of technocratic and paternalistic solutions to the problem of ghetto poverty and look for ways to engage the ghetto poor as potential allies in the fight against injustice rather than seeing them solely as the passive beneficiaries of liberal reform efforts.
The Annual Philosophy Lecture

Hosted by Department of Philosophy

In conjunction with: American Indian Studies Program, Asian American Studies Program, Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center, Department of African American Studies, Department of Anthropology, Department of Communication, Department of Educational Policy, Organization and Leadership, Department of English, Department of French, Department of Gender and Women's Studies, Department of Geography, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Department of History, Department of Journalism, Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Intersections Living Learning Community, Musicology Division, Office of Inclusion and Intercultural Relations, School of Social Work, School of Music, Spurlock Museum, Unit One, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory