Attorney Donald Tamaki, a member of the California Black Reparations Task Force, examines the discursive strategies of critics of reparations and presents a counter-narrative that draws on the extensive historical and contemporary findings of the 1100-page California Reparations Report. This discussion allows us to consider what’s possible, both legislatively and in terms of mobilizing public support. The presentation will be facilitated by Berkeley Professor Emeritus Michael Omi.
The conversation is free and open to the public, and will be livestreamed and recorded. Click here to read more and register.
About the Speakers
Don Tamaki, a Bay Area-based attorney and the only non-Black member of the nine-person California Black Reparations Task Force, has a history of working for redress and reparations, including for Japanese Americans following their forced incarceration during World War II.
Michael Omi, the moderator, is Professor Emeritus of Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies at Berkeley. He is the co-author of Racial Formation in the United States, a groundbreaking work that transformed how we understand the social and historical forces that give race its changing meaning over time and place.
America's Unfinished Work Series
This event is part of OLLI @Berkeley's America's Unfinished Work series, which features presentations by influential figures engaged in the examination and eradication of systemic racism to create a more humane, just and equal society.
