Rogers M. Smith, the Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Associate Dean for social Sciences and Chair of the University of Pennsylvania's Program on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism will be speaking.

Dr. Smith is the author of seven books on citizenship and equality in the United States, including one that was a finalist for the 1998 Pulitzer Prize in History. Smith will address why America's political leaders avoid discussing racial policies, even as many forms of racial inequality persist and deepen. Smith argues that the United States is profoundly divided between two rival conceptions of civic equality--but that common ground may be found in the bold views of the Constitution's purposes advanced by Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln.

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