The Other Side of the Water: Immigration and the Promise of Racial Justice Podcast Finale: Episode 6 (Racial Borders, with E. Tendayi Achiume)

In honor of the 35th anniversary of Justice Thurgood Marshall’s dissent in Jean v. Nelson, in which he  called for equal protection to apply to Haitian noncitizens and to prohibit the government from discriminating on the basis of race or national origin, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. and the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU School of Law presented a virtual conference exploring the intersection of immigration and racial justice.

A podcast series (The Other Side of the Water: Immigration and the Promise of Racial Justice) was part of the virtual event. Episode 6, the podcast finale, is Racial Borders, with E. Tendayi Achiume, U.N. Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, and Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law. In this episode, Achiume explores the global challenges facing immigrants of color and the “racial borders” that define our world.