Affiliated Scholar Hiroshi Fukurai Presents on Japan’s 1919 Racial Equality Proposal for the League of Nations CovenantÌýÌýÌý
On April 2, Hiroshi Fukurai, Professor of Sociology and Legal Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz and former President of the Asian Law and Society Association, gave a presentation on Japan’s effort to outlaw racial inequality in international law at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference.ÌýÌý His talk explored the impact of this proposal on African American legal scholars and activists such as WEB Dubois, William L. Patterson, and Paul Robeson who submitted the petitionÌýWe Charge GenocideÌýto the United Nations in 1951, and related historical links among Japanese, American, and Caribbean political activists.Ìý ÌýThe event was co-sponsored by the Center for Racial and Economic Justice and attracted robust participation and interest.ÌýÌýÌý