African Americans have historically faced considerable challenges to their goal of achieving equality of opportunity.  These challenges become multiplied as members of the global population—for example, those fleeing repressive regimes, those in search of a better economic situation, those displaced by civil war or national disaster—arrive in the United States with hopes of attaining this very same goal.  Dr. Berry will discuss these challenges, examining the allocation of domestic resources within the context of the global struggle for human rights.

Hosted by: African American Studies and Research Program

In conjunction with: Asian American Studies Program, Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Program, Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society, College of Education, College of Law, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of Anthropology, Department of English, Department of Geography, Department of History, Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program, Student Organization Resource Fee (SORF), Urban League of Champaign County