Challenging Segregation with Just Action
Third in a series titled Community, Faith, and Racial Justice, exploring Christianity's involvement in perpetuating racial injustice.
Challenging Segregation with Just Action
Leah Rothstein in conversation with Prof. Margalynne Armstrong
Actions that communities can take to restore housing rights and access to people of color who have been excluded from the financial benefits of home ownership, access to good public schools, more protected environments, and better community services.
Ms. Rothstein's expertise in the the full range of housing policy stems from more than two decades as a consultant to affordable-housing developers and local governments and as a community and union organizer. She is co-author (with Richard Rothstein) of the recent book, Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law. Books will be available for purchase and signing at the event.
Prof. Armstrong is a St. Mark's parishioner who teaches at Santa Clara University School of Law, where her courses include Race and Law, Constitutional Law, and Housing Discrimination. She is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on housing discrimination, privilege and other topics.
Admission: Please click "Reserve a spot" on this page for FREE tickets
Location: St. Mark's Episcopal Church, 600 Colorado Ave., Palo Alto CA
Accessibility: St. Mark's is wheelchair accessible; closed captioning will be available
Parking: Ample parking behind the church
Event Website: tinyurl.com/stmarkseries
Email: beloved_community@saint-marks.com
Upcoming Speaker:
February 26, 2025: Religion, Race, and the "Heathen"
Dr. Kathryn Gin Lum is a professor in the Religious Studies Department, in collaboration with the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University. Professor Gin Lum's most recent book, Heathen: Religion and Race in American History, looks at how the figure of the "heathen" in need of salvation underlies American conceptions of race.
Presented by St. Mark’s Episcopal Church*
Becoming Beloved Community Task Force
*Co-sponsors: American Muslim Voice Foundation • First Congregational Church of Palo Alto UCC • First Presbyterian Church Palo Alto • Multifaith Voices for Peace and Justice • Peninsula Solidarity Cohort • Saint Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Saratoga • Saint Jude’s Episcopal Church, Cupertino • Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church, Burlingame • Saint Thomas Episcopal Church, Sunnyvale • Saint Timothy’s Episcopal Church, Mountain View • Showing Up for Racial Justice @Sacred Heart • Stanford Canterbury • Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, San Jose • Trinity Episcopal Church, Menlo Park • Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto • University Lutheran Church at Stanford
Third in a series titled Community, Faith, and Racial Justice, exploring Christianity's involvement in perpetuating racial injustice.
Challenging Segregation with Just Action
Leah Rothstein in conversation with Prof. Margalynne Armstrong
Actions that communities can take to restore housing rights and access to people of color who have been excluded from the financial benefits of home ownership, access to good public schools, more protected environments, and better community services.
Ms. Rothstein's expertise in the the full range of housing policy stems from more than two decades as a consultant to affordable-housing developers and local governments and as a community and union organizer. She is co-author (with Richard Rothstein) of the recent book, Just Action: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law. Books will be available for purchase and signing at the event.
Prof. Armstrong is a St. Mark's parishioner who teaches at Santa Clara University School of Law, where her courses include Race and Law, Constitutional Law, and Housing Discrimination. She is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on housing discrimination, privilege and other topics.
Admission: Please click "Reserve a spot" on this page for FREE tickets
Location: St. Mark's Episcopal Church, 600 Colorado Ave., Palo Alto CA
Accessibility: St. Mark's is wheelchair accessible; closed captioning will be available
Parking: Ample parking behind the church
Event Website: tinyurl.com/stmarkseries
Email: beloved_community@saint-marks.com
Upcoming Speaker:
February 26, 2025: Religion, Race, and the "Heathen"
Dr. Kathryn Gin Lum is a professor in the Religious Studies Department, in collaboration with the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University. Professor Gin Lum's most recent book, Heathen: Religion and Race in American History, looks at how the figure of the "heathen" in need of salvation underlies American conceptions of race.
Presented by St. Mark’s Episcopal Church*
Becoming Beloved Community Task Force
*Co-sponsors: American Muslim Voice Foundation • First Congregational Church of Palo Alto UCC • First Presbyterian Church Palo Alto • Multifaith Voices for Peace and Justice • Peninsula Solidarity Cohort • Saint Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Saratoga • Saint Jude’s Episcopal Church, Cupertino • Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church, Burlingame • Saint Thomas Episcopal Church, Sunnyvale • Saint Timothy’s Episcopal Church, Mountain View • Showing Up for Racial Justice @Sacred Heart • Stanford Canterbury • Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, San Jose • Trinity Episcopal Church, Menlo Park • Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto • University Lutheran Church at Stanford