The State of Hate in America Cone Chapel-Waller Hall
Mark Potok, a Senior Fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center and editor of its investigative magazine Intelligence Report, will discuss the remarkable growth of the radical right since 2000, focusing especially on it's explosive growth over the last four years. He will delve into the reasons for that growth, which include the election of the nation's first African-American president and the ailing economy, and the support that the movement receives from the political mainstream in a highly polarized moment in American history. In light of President Obama's re-election last fall, Potok will also assess the prospects for the future with respect to hate and other extreme-right groups.
For more information contact Stanislav Vysotsky @ svysotsk@willamette.edu
Sponsored by the Departments of Sociology, Politics, and American Ethnic Studies, the Office of the Chaplin, Office of Multicultural Affairs and the Center for Religion, Law & Democracy
Free and Open to the public
March 14, 2013
7:00 p.m.
The Battle Over School Prayer Cone Chapel | Waller Hall
Fifty years ago the Supreme Court threw God out of schools......America Has Never Been the Same Bruce J. Dierenfield, Professor of History Canisius College
Free and Open to the public
Sponsored by the Center for Religion, Law & Democracy
For more information, please contact Reyna Meyers 503.370.6046 or rmeyers@willamette.edu
