Race in America (Video)

Two recent Supreme Court decisions seem to send conflicting messages about state and local laws regulating noncitizens. In one case, the justices upheld Arizona’s law imposing sanctions on employers who hire undocumented workers. But another ruling struck down a law that allowed for racial profiling of suspected illegal immigrants. UC Davis Law Professor Gabriel Chin sorts through the legal contradictions to find the right balance between state and federal governments. Chin is the featured speaker of the 2013 DeWitt Higgs Memorial Lecture, sponsored by Cal Western School of Law and UC San Diego. Series: "DeWitt Higgs Memorial Lecture" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 24665]

Joan Y. Reede, MD, MPH, MS, MBA, Associate Professor of Medicine, Dean for Diversity and Community Partnership, Harvard Medical School, examines the role that children have played in advancing civil rights and justice and how that struggle impacts education and health care today. Series: "Lenoir/Hamburger Memorial Lecture" [Public Affairs] [Health and Medicine] [Humanities] [Show ID: 24855]

UC San Diego Political Scientist Zoltan Hajnal argues that Republicans and Democrats can bring more minorities to the polls by addressing their specific concerns, rather than crafting campaigns that appeal primarily to whites or ignore race altogether. Hajnal is co-author of “Why Americans Don’t Join the Party: Race, Immigration and the Failure of Political Parties to Engage the Electorate. Series: "UCTV Prime Vote" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 23791]

There are severe gaps in the quality of medical care American children receive due to health disparities that often occur across racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups. Dr. Lindia Willies-Jacobo, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics and Assistant Dean for Diversity and Community Partnerships at UCSD, explains the most common disparities in children including strategies that can be employed to eliminate them. Series: "Lenoir/Hamburger Memorial Lecture" [Public Affairs] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 23404]

UC Davis economist Giovanni Peri argues that immigration helps the U.S. economy and calls for reforms that would include granting more H1B visas for highly skilled workers and for creating temporary visas for low skilled workers who have job offers from U.S. employers. Series: "UCTV Prime Vote" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 23596]

New York University sociologist and historian Richard Sennett addresses the phenomenon of why people tend to avoid engaging with others who are different, leading to a modern politics of the tribe rather than the city. In this thought-provoking talk, Sennett offers ideas on what might be done to encourage people to live with others who are racially, ethnically, religiously or economically unlike themselves. [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 23304]

Are America’s civil rights laws a failure? Stanford Law professor and “Rights Gone Wrong” author Richard Thompson Ford argues that while they have been successful in fighting overt discrimination, they’ve fallen short in addressing other social injustices and in some cases, have been hijacked by political extremists for personal advantage. Ford is interviewed by Jennifer Burton, a visiting scholar to UC San Diego. Series: "Revelle Forum" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 22625]

Rogers M. Smith, Political Science University of Pennsylvania, explores what many founders called the the “American Experiment” in government embodied in the U.S. Constitution: a democratic republic, without a national church, devoted to fostering commerce, scientific progress and realizing the national motto, “E Pluribus Unum.” Two and a third centuries later, whether America’s constitutional democracy can form a more perfect union out of its ever-growing economic, religious, and racial and ethnic diversity is again the central test of the “American Experiment.” Series: "UC Berkeley Graduate Lectures" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 23025]

The 10th Annual Rhoda Goldman Lecture in Health Policy presents Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and Oncology at Johns Hopkins Medical Center. Named as one of the 100 most influential Hispanics in 2008, Dr. Quinones-Hinojosa’s third book, “Becoming Dr. Q – My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon,” comes out in fall 2011. Series: "Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley" [Public Affairs] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 22768]

A new UC Berkeley study of online-dating suggests that white men and women prefer to date other whites, while black men are the most open to dating women of other races. In this video, students comment on their dating attitudes regarding race. Series: "UC Berkeley News" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 22906]