"How Democratic is California?"
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Oakland Museum of California

Panels will include presentations on subjects such as:

• A Century of Progressivism: The Mixed Legacy of 1911
• The Underrepresented: People of Color in Electoral Politics
• Government by Proposition: More Harm than Good?
• It's All About the Money: The Corruptions of Public Finance
• The Decline of Public Education and the Erosion of Democracy
• Citizenship and its Discontents: Denial of Rights, from Japanese Internment to Anti-Terrorism
• Where is the Popular Protest? Grassroots Activism in Hard Times
• Popular Media Organizing: From Posters to the Blogisphere

CSA thanks the California Council for the Humanities for funding to support documentation of this event.

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