ABOUT
Columbia Race Talks: Critical Race Theory (CRT2) is a project of the Studio for Law and Culture at Columbia Law School. Produced by students in the Critical Race Theory Seminar Workshop, CRT2 uses critical race theory as a lens to look at charged issues, contested histories and contemporary debates about law, culture and the politics of race.
The Studio for Law and Culture facilitates interdisciplinary study, research and scholarship on the intersections of law and culture. The Critical Race Theory Workshop Seminar, taught by Kendall Thomas and Flores Forbes, explores interdisciplinary scholarship on race, racism, and law. CRT2 understands law in an institutional and cultural sense and seeks to support civil literacy and capacity building inside and outside the classroom. The series covers current local and global issues across a range of topics in conversation with academics, students, community members, and persons with relevant lived experiences.
CREDITS
Each episode is written, edited and produced by a team of students from the Critical Race Theory Seminar Workshop at Columbia Law School.
Executive Producers: Flores Forbes and Kendall Thomas
Audio Engineering: Monica Hunter-Hart
Media Design: Remy Chwae
Website Design: Jessica Gadea Hawkins and Stephanie Abrahams
Additional Support: Michelle Wilson
Music: Courtesy of Free Music Archive
FEATURED IMAGE
Arguing the Cause
By Barbara Pollack
United States, 1985
Collage with photoreproduction, gouache, and colored pencil
44 1/2 x 60 in.
Description: “Arguing the cause was commissioned by the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc. to commemorate Jack Greenberg’s thirty-five years as a staff attorney and as Director-Counsel of the prestigious civil rights organization. The collage reflects the highpoints of Greenberg’s outstanding career as the Fund which include such landmark cases as Brown v. Board of Education and Furman v. Georgia. The title of the collage is derived from a sentence preceding over forty United States Supreme Court decisions, ‘Jack Greenberg argued the cause for petitioner’, yet it encompasses Greenberg’s broader role within the civil rights movement.”