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The Law Of White Spaces: Race, Culture, And Legal Education, Peter Goodrich, Linda G. Mills
The Law Of White Spaces: Race, Culture, And Legal Education, Peter Goodrich, Linda G. Mills
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The scene, drawn from memory, is a first-year law school classroom. It is the early 1980s and the class is on civil procedure. The teacher is a white woman. She is nervous, and the class is dominated by students who provide standard right answers to formulaic law school questions. Other points of view, particularly those of a critical or feminist nature, are either passed over quickly or ignored. Questions of color are never mentioned. More than that, the teacher never calls on any African-American students. Students of color are either ignored completely or told, when they have questions, “We are …