Hes not majoring in urban studies and he had an assignment he had to give an economic or via the rich neighborhood so he goes and a Police Cruiser drives by and i told this story and in the book the Police Cruiser drives by the secret uturn, plus on the sidewalk, jumps out the hits and with a flashlight, looks up and says who are you and why are you here. He says im a student and im doing an assignment. The Police Officer says the park closes at 9 30 and he says that its only 7 30. He comes up with his hand on his weapon and says the park closes at nine. He says we dont want any trouble and they walk away. The other is flint michigan. There is a Community Devastated as you know by the loss of manufacturing Automobile Industry now dealing in the fact that theyve been poisoned because of bad water. What does that mean is somebody made that decision not upgrading the pipes and has is a post from going to detroit. So from policing to who has access to the opportunity you know the social science data says that for every opportunity they get in the workplace they will get four or five opportunities. You can watch this and other programs online that booktv. Org. Good afternoon. Im the director of the institute and it is a great pleasure and honor to be here this afternoon to moderate the panel and the celebration of a wonderful new book. What we are going to do this afternoon is have some presentations and responses to the buck. They undertake this discussion and im going to introduce them all briefly and then they will speak in the order that weve determined. It will begin with a brief presentation of the book and its main issues and history by catherine. Its a wonderful institution that we are so happy to collaborate with and shes the author of the perils of marriage a quality in the press of 2050 just recently out. Catherine has been working on gender justice and the Transitional Justice come issues of gender and race and law. Shes a legal theorist and public intellectual and its just an amazing human being. I am so happy to be celebrating her this afternoon. Our speakers will go in this order. We will have patricia williams, the author of alchemy, race and rights and you know dont know her from her monthly column for the nation magazine which you can subscribe to at the wordpress. The second speaker is the associate professor of sociology at Bernard College and co. Directs the center for the Minority Aging Research at the school of medicine. Her Research Examines the intersections of gender, class and orientation and her first book is invisible families, identities, relationships and brotherhood and was the winner of the outstanding book award by the American Physiological Association section. Shes working on a second project entitled the shadow of sexuality social history and social support among africanamerican lg bt elders. The third speaker is with the Director Center for the study of law and culture. Kendall thomas is the coeditor of the key writings that founded the movement and also the coeditor of what is left in the theory. The most recent writing has focused on the law and culture of the politics, racial democracy in brazil and the law wall and politics of neoliberalism in ti