White Space, Black Hood Book Talk with Professor Sheryll Cashin

123 Washington Street,Newark NJ 07102

17 November, 2022

Description

This event is open to all Rutgers students and faculty. Please note all attendees must be in compliance with the University’s vaccination and booster requirements. Sheryll Cashin will be discussing her most recent book, White Space, Black Hood which is about the role of segregation and redlining in reproducing inequality. This lecture will be moderated by Rutgers Law School, Professor David Troutt. About the Presenter and Moderator: Sheryll Cashin is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Law, Civil Rights, and Social Justice at Georgetown and an acclaimed author of five books. She writes mainly about the U.S. struggle with racism and inequality. Professor Cashin’s books have been nominated for the C. Wright Mills Award, NAACP Image Award for Nonfiction, Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Nonfiction, and an Editors’ Choice in the New York Times Book Review. A contributing editor for Politico Magazine, she has also written commentaries for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Salon, The Root, and other media. For her writing and advocacy, she was recently named by the Washingtonian Magazine as one DC’s Most Influential People. Cashin is also former law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, a self-taught historian and memoirist, a daughter of civil rights agitators in Alabama, a sought-after speaker and a regular commentator on national radio, TV and podcasts. David Dante Troutt is Distinguished Professor of Law and Justice John J. Francis Scholar at Rutgers Law School-Newark where he also directs the Center on Law, Inequality and Metropolitan Equity (CLiME). He emphasizes using law and interdisciplinary study in order to understand structural inequality and systemic racism and to formulate legal and policy reform strategies. Troutt teaches tort law, intellectual property, civil rights and a multidisciplinary approach to racial and economic inequality (land use, civil rights, state and local government, housing and poverty law). Troutt is the author of four books: The Price of Paradise: The Costs of Inequality and a Vision for a More Equitable America (NYU Press), The Monkey Suit: Short Fiction on African Americans and Justice (The New Press), After the Fall: Black Intellectuals Explore the Meaning of Hurricane Katrina (The New Press), and a novel, The Importance of Being Dangerous (Amistad/HarperCollins). In addition to many scholarly articles, he writes frequently on issues of law, race and inequality for a variety of national publications. A Harlemite relocated to New Jersey, Troutt is the proud father of two tremendous daughters.