Helen Zia: Civil Rights, Asian Americans and Marriage Equality: 50 Years After the Civil Rights Act
50 years after the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed, Americans are more colored, the queers are getting married, the feminists are still marching. Through personal stories from her experiences as an Asian American, feminist and LGBT writer and activist, Helen Zia explores what other evils are lurking as “minorities” become the majority in these contemporary times that some call “post-Civil Rights ” and she considers the opportunities for all communities to move forward together.
Sponsored by the Student Life’s Mosaic: Center for Culture and Diversity and by the Dresher Center for the Humanities; the American Studies Department; the Gender and Women’s Studies Department.