Labor and the Constitution

Date
Sep 22, 2011, 4:30 pm6:30 pm
Location
Friend Center 101

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Event Description

Paul FrymerPrinceton University, with respondents Henry S. FarberPrinceton University; James PopeRutgers School of Law; and Sean WilentzPrinceton University

Paul Frymer teaches and writes on topics in American law and politics, particularly as they intersect with issues of democratic representation, race and civil rights, and labor and employment. He is a former LAPA fellow (2004-2005), as well as Acting Director (2009-2010). He is the author of two books: Uneasy Alliances: Race and Party Competition in America (reissued in 2010 with an afterward on President Obama's election) and Black and Blue: African Americans, the Labor Movement, and the Decline of the Democratic Party (2008), both of which were published by Princeton University Press. He has also either authored or is currently writing about topics ranging from legal understandings of political parties to the racial politics of Hurricane Katrina and affirmative action to the role of law and politics in the historical development of American territorial expansion.

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Co-Sponsored by:

The Program in American Studies

Lecture Series
Princeton University Constitution Day Lecture