September 11, 2000
RELEASE ON RECEIPT

Phi Beta Kappa Lecture:
Thursday, Sept. 14, 7:30 p.m., Room 306
King Hall
10 N. Professor St.

Free public event

For more information
please call:
(440) 775-8374

Sponsored by
Oberlin’s sociology department and the Phi Beta Kappa chapter at Oberlin

Media Contact:
Betty Gabrielli

scott.wargo@oberlin.edu

http://www.oberlin.edu.

OBERLIN, OH--As we enter the 21^st Century, how has the structure of racial inequality in the United States changed?

To answer that question, Lawrence D. Bobo, one of the country’s leading experts on the fabric of current racism and a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, will present a lecture titled A Color-Line for the 21^st Century?-- Laissez-faire Racism and the Status of African-Americans this Thursday at Oberlin College.

In his talk, Bobo, a professor of sociology and Afro-American studies at Harvard University, will provide a broad-gauge assessment of the contemporary structure and ideology of racial inequality in the U.S.

The guest speaker, who has appeared on numerous television programs including Today, CBS Sunday Morning, Nightline, CNN, and on the NBC news special broadcast "The Racial Attitudes and Consciousness Exam," is the co-author of the award-winning book Racial Attitudes in America (Harvard, 1985).

Bobo’s research interests include racial attitudes and relations, social psychology, public opinion, and political behavior. He has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation.

He also has served on the National Research Council’s (NRC) panel on Poverty and Family Assistance and as a senior research associate to the NRC’s Committee on the Status of Black Americans, which published A Common Destiny: Blacks and American Society (1989).

A graduate of Loyola Marymount University, Bobo earned his M.A. (1981) and Ph.D. (1984) from the University of Michigan.

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