The Havens Wright Center for Social Justice

Ian Haney López, School of Law, University of California, Berkeley

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Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class

Dog Whistle POLITICS

Tuesday, November 19, 4pm, 206 Ingraham

Dog Whistle RACISM

Wednesday, November 20, 4pm, 206 Ingraham

Open Seminar for Students, Faculty and Public

Thursday, November 21, 12:20pm, 8108 Social Science

A man looks into the camera with a slight smile. His salt-and-pepper hair is worn short. He has silver metallic eyeglasses featuring rectangular frames. He wears a black shirt. A gray background can be seen behind him.IAN HANEY LÓPEZ is the John H. Boalt Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, where he teaches in the areas of race and constitutional law. Haney López has published four books, including White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race and Racism on Trial: The Chicano Fight for Justice. He has been a visiting law professor at Yale, New York University, and Harvard, and is currently writing a book entitled Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class. In 2011, Haney López received an Alphonse Fletcher Fellowship, awarded to scholars whose work furthers the integration goals of Brown v. Board of Education.