Please join the Detroit Bar Association and Wayne State University Law School Professor and Director of the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights Peter Hammer for a complimentary Webinar: 

 Structural Racism 101: Basic Training for Lawyers 

Monday June 29, 2020

4:00 - 5:00 pm

TO REGISTER:

 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/structural-racism-101-basic-training-for-lawyers-tickets-110807662702 

All Registrants will receive the Zoom link via email on June 28, 2020

Metropolitan Detroit remains one of the most racially segregated areas in the country.  At Wayne State University’s Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights, the region is described as “ground zero” for spatial-structural racism, where structural racism is defined as the inter-institutional dynamics that produce and reproduce racially disparate outcomes over time.  The Coronavirus pandemic underscores the fact that these issues are matters of life and death for our community. The recent community uprisings over the killing of George Floyd by a police officer again put a spotlight on the need for racial justice, not only in law enforcement but in all aspects of American life.

While structural racism underlies the dual pandemics of police brutality and the racial disparities in Covid-19 deaths, lawyers are seldom taught about racism in law school.  This presentation will define and distinguish the many forms of racism that we confront: express racism, structural racism, spatial racism and forms of implicit bias.  It will also give people a framework to better understand the dynamics of structural racism as an evolving dialectic between belief systems and institutions that have mutated in form from slavery, to Jim Crow segregation, to the forms of spatial-structural racism that define Southeast Michigan.