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Carving out a humanity : race, rights, and redemption / edited by Janet Dewart Bell and Vincent M. Southerland.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Race discrimination--Law and legislation--United States.
- Race discrimination.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 387 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; London : The New Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- "Carving Out a Humanity gathers some of our country's brightest progressive legal stars in a volume that illuminates the facets of the law that have continued to perpetuate racial inequality and to confound our nation at the start of a new millennium. Originally delivered as Derrick Bell Lectures in a series at NYU School of Law, begun in 1995 and running up through 2019, Carving Out a Humanity offers an unprecedented array of today's most creative and brilliant thinking on race and the law"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- No justice, no peace / Charles Ogletree
- Each other's harvest / Charles Lawrence
- The archetypes that haunt us / Patricia Williams
- Derrick Bell's toolkit-fit to dismantle that famous house? / Richard Delgado
- Enlisting race, resisting power, transforming democracy / Lani Guinier
- Accountability for private life / Anita Allen
- Somebody else's child / Mari Matsuda
- From the West to the rest : interest convergence in California racial politics / Cheryl Harris
- Envisioning abolition : sex, citizenship, and the racial imaginary of the killing state / Kendall Thomas
- Racism as the ultimate deception / Derrick Bell
- Like a loaded weapon / Robert Williams
- A hip-hop theory of justice / Paul Butler
- The racist reality of the 2008 financial crisis / Emma Coleman Jordan
- After Obama : three "post-racial" challenges / Devon Carbado
- Justice undone : color blindness after civil rights / Ian Haney López
- Critiquing the family tree : white supremacy in the writing of history / Annette Gordon-Reed
- Badges and incidents : lingering vestiges of slavery in the Thirteenth Amendment / William Carter
- The criminal injustice of capital punishment / Stephen Bright
- What's left out of Brown / Sherrilyn Ifill
- The society we want / Michelle Alexander
- A tale of two Americas / Theodore M. Shaw
- The boundaries of whiteness : from till to Trayvon / Angela Onwuachi-Willig
- Violence and the word / Kenneth W. Mack.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-62097-621-8
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