CANCELED | Rights on Trial: How Workplace Discrimination Law Perpetuates Inequality (or, why #MeToo can’t win in court)

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Monday, Apr 27 2020, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM, CAPA Symposium
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Monday, Apr 27 2020 7:00 PM Monday, Apr 27 2020 9:00 PM America/New_York CANCELED | Rights on Trial: How Workplace Discrimination Law Perpetuates Inequality (or, why #MeToo can’t win in court) CANCELED | U.S. civil rights law has failed to live up to its promise of creating fair, equal workplaces. Dr. Berrey will present key findings from her 2017 book, based on both statistical analyses of how legal cases get resolved and interviews with parties. Audience members also will get to listen to audio recordings of interviewees discussing their first-hand experiences of workplace anti-discrimination law. CAPA Symposium Bennington College

CANCELED | U.S. civil rights law has failed to live up to its promise of creating fair, equal workplaces. Dr. Berrey will present key findings from her 2017 book, based on both statistical analyses of how legal cases get resolved and interviews with parties. Audience members also will get to listen to audio recordings of interviewees discussing their first-hand experiences of workplace anti-discrimination law.

Ellen Berrey is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto and an affiliated scholar of the American Bar Foundation. Her work examines the crossroads of culture, racism, law, organizations, activism, and inequality in the United States and, increasingly, Canada. Her current and recent projects investigate employment discrimination law, the rhetoric and politics of diversity, affirmative action in admissions, student anti-racism protest, and university responses to campus hate speech. Dr. Berrey is the author of two award-winning books: The Enigma of Diversity: The Language of Race and the Limits of Racial Justice (University of Chicago Press 2015) and, with Robert Nelson and Laura Beth Nielsen, Rights on Trial: How Workplace Discrimination Law Perpetuates Inequality (University of Chicago Press 2017). Her Salon article, “Diversity Is for White People,” has been circulated on social media more that 33,000 times.