The Michigan Colloquium on
Race and Twentieth-Century American Political Development, with the
co-sponsorship of the National Poverty Center, presents the fourth of eight
public lectures:
PROFESSOR MICHAEL KATZ
Professor of History
University of Pennsylvania
"THE NEW
AFRICAN-AMERICAN INEQUALITY"
Thurs., Dec. 11, 2003, 4 -
5:30pm, Modern Languages Building, Lecture Room 1
Michael Katz is a social
historian and Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.
In addition to numerous other studies, he is author of IN THE SHADOW OF THE
POORHOUSE (Basic Books, 1996) and THE UNDESERVING POOR (Pantheon, 1989). He is
currently writing a book for the Russell Sage Foundation that situates the
findings of the 2000 Census in the broader social and economics trends of the
twentieth century, research that is also the subject of his lecture on
Thursday.
The program of the Colloquium
is made possible by the generous financial support of the Office of the Vice
President for Research and the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, as
well as the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies; the Center for Local,
State, and Urban Policy; the College of Literature, Science, and Arts; the
Departments of History, Political Science, and Sociology; the Gerald R. Ford
School of Public Policy; the National Poverty Center; and the Taubman College
of Architecture and Urban Planning. For additional information, please contact
colloquium organizers Matt Lassiter, Tony Chen, and Robert Mickey at
conveners@umich.