Patrick Rivers

Assistant Professor, African American Studies
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1998

Publications

"Tortious Race, Race Torts: Hate Speech, Intentional Infliction, and the Problem of Harm," Studies in Law, Politics & Society 27 (2003): 93-114.

Governing Hate and Race in the United States and South Africa. (Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, forthcoming.)

Teaching and Research Interests

African American politics, critical race theory

Courses

Introduction to African American Studies

Black Political Thought

African American Politics and Society

Black Power and Black Consciousness

Critical Race Theory