Keynote speaker
Kevin R. Johnson
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicano Studies
University of California at Davis
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, critics claimed that the race of many of the victims contributed to the slowness and ineptitude of the response. Another, often invisible group, suffered in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, and no one seemed to care. Professor Kevin Johnson will discuss how the treatment of immigrant victims of Hurricane Katrina is symptomatic of a larger problem in our democracy. He argues that the government treats immigrants, both legal and illegal, as second-class citizens who are part of a low-wage caste of color.
Kevin Johnson has published extensively on immigration law and policy, racial identity, and civil rights in national and international journals. Professor Johnson's book How Did You Get to Be Mexican? A White/Brown Man's Search for Identity was published in 1999 and was nominated for the 2000 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. Professor Johnson's latest book The "Huddled Masses" Myth Immigration and Civil Rights was published in 2004.
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William Mitchell College of Law, founded in 1900, is an independent, private law school located in St. Paul, Minnesota. The college is known for cultivating practical wisdom and for creating an environment that welcomes both traditional and non-traditional law students. The largest law school in Minnesota, William Mitchell has produced many distinguished leaders at the bench and bar and in the business and civic arenas, among them the 15th Chief Justice of the United States, Warren E. Burger ’31.