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Full-Text Articles in Law and Race
Families Of Color In Crisis: Bearing The Weight Of The Financial Market Meltdown, André Douglas Pond Cummings
Families Of Color In Crisis: Bearing The Weight Of The Financial Market Meltdown, André Douglas Pond Cummings
Faculty Scholarship
The financial market crisis of 2008 landed heaviest and hardest upon communities of color. In the minority communities that continue to bear the crushing weight of this crisis—which continues unrequited—women of color, and by extension, their families, are by far the group most devastated by the global market meltdown. In an ultimate irony, most economists, scholars, and commentators now agree that the collapse, which continues to ravage Main Street, was caused primarily by a select group of privileged white men–i.e., Wall Street executives, bankers, and the politicians purchased by Wall Street largess. The impact of Wall Street’s fascination with securitizing …
The Folly - And Faith - Of Furman, John H. Blume, Sheri Lynn Johnson
The Folly - And Faith - Of Furman, John H. Blume, Sheri Lynn Johnson
The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process
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The Abyss Of Racism, J. Thomas Sullivan
The Abyss Of Racism, J. Thomas Sullivan
The Journal of Appellate Practice and Process
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Derrick Bell: Godfather Provocateur, André Douglas Pond Cummings
Derrick Bell: Godfather Provocateur, André Douglas Pond Cummings
Faculty Scholarship
Professor Derrick Bell, the originator and founder of Critical Race Theory, passed away on October 5, 2011 at the age of 80. Around the world he is considered a hero, mentor, friend and exemplar. Known as a creative innovator and agitator, Professor Bell often sacrificed his career in the name of principles and objectives, inspiring a generation of scholars of color and progressive lawyers everywhere. Bell resigned a tenured position on the Harvard Law School faculty to protest Harvard’s refusal to hire and tenure women of color onto its law school faculty. For the past twenty years, Professor Bell taught …