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Race & Perception

Thursday, November 30, 2006

Les Payne, Newsday columnist
and
James McBride, award-winning composer and author of the memoir, The Color Of Water (Putnam, 1996), available for purchase at Amazon.com
and
Dalton Conley, University Professor of the social sciences and chair of sociology at New York University and author of the memoir, Honky (University of California Press, 2000), available for purchase at Amazon.com
and
Jonathan Zimmerman, teaches history and education at New York University and author, Innocents Abroad: American Teachers in the American Century (Harvard University Press, 2006), available for purchase at Amazon.com
- discuss the way experience based on race influences perceptions of the Queens police shooting

Boston Globe Op-ed by Jonathan Zimmerman, "The Historical Fallacy"


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