FREE SPEECH 22: Where do these controversies start – a deep dive into American politics from the 1960s till today.
Professor Ian Haney López, University of California at Berkeley
Ian Haney López is Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. His recent work engages the question of how racial divisions in society and growing wealth inequality in the United States are connected. He is the author of White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race, Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class, among other works. Book: Dog Whistle Politics.