Dossier - January 2017

The issue of race in the United States is just as topical as ever, as reflected both in the emergence of the 'Black Lives Matter' movement - in response to instances of police brutality too frequent and too serious to be dismissed as isolated incidents - and to the surprising victory in November 2016 of a presidential candidate who had made disparaging statements about Hispanics. Those recent events have triggered a great many comments. Yet they are only the most striking evidence of the persistence of race as a multidimensional problem, a problem addressed by the complementary contributions brought together in the following symposium.